Varför gäller inte premiär direktivet inte Rubicun III?

Kritik om den effektiva tillämpningen av premiärdirektivet i Star Trek-berättelser går tillbaka till The Original Series och varje iteration har några episoder som glänsar, förbises, glömmer eller helt enkelt ignorerar premiärriktivet för historiens kontinuitet.

När det gäller nästa generations avsnitt Rättvisa, där Edo visas Wikipedia anger:

In contrast, the Next Generation episode "Justice" did not explicitly explain whether the Edo people were pre-warp or were aware of offworld space travelers prior to the Enterprise's visit. If the case is the former, then when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death, the violation of the Prime Directive had already occurred and the issue of rescuing him, while politically exacerbating matters, might not have been a violation of the Directive.

Emphasis är min.

Överträdelser av Prime Direktivet är många och berättas i premiärriktningsuppgifterna i Wikipedia:

One criticism regarding the Prime Directive is that it is inconsistently applied, depending on a planet's strategic importance or the circumstances in which a starship crew finds itself. For example, as part of the Federation's then-ongoing hostilities with the Klingons, Captain Kirk was ordered to make contact with the seemingly pre-industrial Organians in "Errand of Mercy." In addition, Kirk directly interfered with the laws or customs of alien worlds in "Friday's Child," "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," "The Cloud Minders," "The Apple," "The Return of the Archons," and "A Taste of Armageddon," in order to achieve a Federation objective, to save the lives of his crew, or both.

Compounding matters is that in the TOS episode "The Omega Glory," Kirk states, "A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive," and yet he seemingly violates the Prime Directive as "the only way to save my ship" in "A Taste of Armageddon" and no explanation for the Federation Ambassador trying to mediate between Eminiar VII and Vendikar (neither of which are Federation members) regardless of their wishes on the matter is given.

In "The Return of the Archons" and "The Apple" reference to the "Prime Directive of non-interference" is made by Spock. In "The Return Of The Archons," Kirk says the Prime Directive refers to "a living, growing culture" to justify interfering with what he sees as the non-development of the computer-controlled culture, asking pointedly in reference to it, by contrasting it with living, growing cultures, "Do you think this one is?" In the "The Apple" Spock points out that Starfleet Command may not agree with his choice to interfere with the computer controlled culture to which Kirk replies "I'll take my chances."

There are also episodes in which the Prime Directive should have been mentioned, but wasn't. In "The Paradise Syndrome"," the Enterprise attempts to save a pre-industrial planet by moving an asteroid that was on a collision course with it; when McCoy asks Kirk if he should warn the people, Kirk and Spock only point out the people would not understand the warning, and neither makes any reference to the Prime Directive. In "The Cloud Minders Kirk interferes with the culture of Ardana to obtain zenite the only cure for a biological plague ravaging Merak.

Admiral Matthew Dougherty's reasons for violation of the Prime Directive in Star Trek: Insurrection in Picard's time echoes the reasons Kirk gives McCoy in "Private Little War" but Picard considers them invalid. In "Homeward," Nikolai Rozhenko (Paul Sorvino) uses holodeck technology to save the Boraalan and enforce what he believes is the spirit of the Prime Directive even though Picard has already said such actions violate what it actually states. In "Pen Pals," Captain Picard rectifies contact with an inhabitant of a pre-warp planet by ordering her memory erased. When contamination became too serious to be fixed by memory erasures, Captain Picard decided to make direct contact with a civilization's leaders in "Who Watches the Watchers" and "First Contact," although the latter episode involved a planet on the verge of achieving warp flight, and therefore eligible for First Contact. Finally, in "Natural Law," the Voyager crew took measures to ensure the protected isolation of a primitive people, even from a more advanced civilization who share the same planet.

Statsdirektivets regler mot avslöjar förekomsten av utomjordiska frimärken verkar bara gälla för pre- kontakt civilisationer, inte för- < em> warp civilisationer. Vid flera tillfällen ( TNG: Code of Honor , TNG: Rättvisa , TNG : Pen Pals , TOS: Errand of Mercy , etc) det är tydligt klart att Så länge en planet redan är medveten om existens av utomjordiska terrängen, är det OK för Starfleet att ha diplomatiska relationer med dem. På den punkten verkar premiärriktivet växla till en av förhindrar otillbörligt inflytande.

I det här fallet beskrivs Rubicun (av Data) som en del av ett stjärnkluster av ...

...three thousand four other planets

Många är uppenbarligen lämpliga för både liv och kolonisering.

Trots sin förenklad pre-warp-livsstil verkar det åtminstone rimligt att anta att Edo-forskare i en så tät packad miljö skulle ha varit medveten om andra civilisationer genom enkel observation.

Det verkar bero på vilken typ av kontakt en annan civilisation har haft, inte hur avancerad de är - federationen har tydligt haft kontakt med pre-warp civilisationer som redan visste om "utlänningar".

Det är intressant att notera att överträdelser av Picard och hans besättning är mest oavsiktliga, och Picard gör allt han kan för att hålla saker som de är på planeten, tills de anses vara redo för kontakt. Kirk, å andra sidan, verkar mer intresserad av att avsiktligt förändra en planetens kultur före tid om han anser att det är nödvändigt.