Timeline for When did the Prime Directive come into law?
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| Nov 18, 2018 at 22:11 | answer | added | Ted Miller | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 9:25 | vote | accept | Robert Achmann | ||
| Aug 30, 2018 at 9:25 | vote | accept | Robert Achmann | ||
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| Aug 28, 2018 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1034365057508016129 | ||
| Aug 27, 2018 at 17:26 | comment | added | Emsley Wyatt | It should be pointed out that intentional "interference" is sanctioned as a method of ameliorating the effects of unintentional interference. The presence of the Enterprise in orbit was the initial interference but they couldn't let a pilot, who almost certainly would have lived otherwise, die. Similar argument applies to Kirk on the Gangster planet, Picard in "Who Watches the Watchers", and Sisko in "Past Tense". | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 19:26 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 16:00 | history | edited | Edlothiad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 0:48 | comment | added | NKCampbell | fwiw - the comparison between the Apollo program and TOS Prime Directive is imo, entirely off base - especially considering that the first unmanned Apollo occurred in Feb 1966, the first scheduled manned flight slated for 1967 (Apollo 1) - the first actual flight occurring (Apollo 7) in 1968. In other words, the quarantine process and science behind it for Apollo 11 was quite likely very unknown to television writers in 1965/66 | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | NKCampbell | Out of universe - the Prime Directive was conceived of by Gene Coon, while polishing the script for "Return of the Archons" sometime between September 14, 1966 - December 7, 1966. Tomorrow is Yesterday was written primarily by DC Fontana in early October 1966, with a minor polish by Coon in November and December. - 'These are the Voyages - Season 1: Marc Cushman' | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 23:00 | comment | added | Valorum | You can't be in trouble for interfering with the cultural development of your own culture. You can annoy the timecops though. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 22:51 | comment | added | Robert Achmann | Why is it not valid, when related to earth? Why does it matter if there is a temporal aspect in any application of PD? | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 22:48 | comment | added | Valorum | They're breaking the temporal Prime Directive but they certainly aren't breaking the Prime Directive ("no identification of self or mission; no interference with the social development of said planet; no references to space, other worlds, or advanced civilizations.") since it's Earth and the damage was already done. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 22:44 | history | asked | Robert Achmann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |