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To: EveningStar

You’ll notice that the Enterprise very often violates the Prime Directive. Actually most of the time.


5 posted on 09/14/2016 8:38:04 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
You’ll notice that the Enterprise very often violates the Prime Directive. Actually most of the time.

That's because - much like libertarianism itself - the Prime Directive is an unworkable ideal which simply doesn't match reality and therefore rarely works in practice.

9 posted on 09/14/2016 8:59:51 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

What episode didn’t they violate it?


10 posted on 09/14/2016 9:00:22 AM PDT by perez24
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Basically, whenever Kirk’s gut tells him to go ahead and violate it, in the name of some “greater good”.


16 posted on 09/14/2016 10:15:40 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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