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Meme format image. The top half has a picture of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s bridge crew with the text “the prime directive forbids us from interfering. We cannot share our technology”. The bottom half has a picture of Stargate’s SG-1 team and the text “all your gods are false. Here, take these guns.”
Stargate really did the whole “lasers for show, guns for a pro” thing.
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This is a thumbnail of terror, it’s meant to intimidate your enemy
This is a thumbnail of war, it’s meant to kill your enemy
Isn’t the “advanced” races doing prime directive to SGC one of the running themes in the show?
The very young do not always do what they are told
The Tolan and the Asgard. Both of them ended up handing over all their stuff when they got fucked.
Nobody:
Oma: Do you want Anubis? Because that’s how you get Anubis!
In a way I guess? Although weren’t eg. the Asgard mainly just pretty stingy with their tech? It’s not like they didn’t interfere in a lot of shit over the millennia, what with being revered as gods and all that – and not interfering in a species’ “natural development” was the main point with the Prime Directive
The Nox and Tollan were way more Prime Directive than the Asgard.
Both are right. But, the ‘gods’ already broke the non-interference pattern, and the lesser-developed species has already been impacted. So, at that point, it becomes a judgment call - will further involvement be beneficial or detrimental?
Don’t forget the “culture” being interfered with is the descendants of humans, forcibly removed from Earth to be slaves in a culture of violence, oppression, and fear. Not exactly the Quimbo of Shoogle VII, who just want to keep hitting people with sticks thinking it’ll cure the plague, or whatever.
Wouldn’t one race enslaving another already violate the Federation’s Prime Directive?
Tell that to the Bajorans.
Strategic vs tactical.
SG-1 was arming folks to fight against the goa’uld though, so I’d claim it was also strategic?
Isn’t this modern world politics in a nutshell?
That and “we come in peace, shoot to kill” and a few other similar statements.
Let’s not forget that these directives originate from vastly different points in “our” moral evolutionary “history,” not to mention technological capability (especially versus the rest of the galaxy) and sense of safety/security. If the SGC were founded in the same century as The Federation, would they have a similar stance?
It’s been ages since I saw SG, but weren’t the “aliens” they met mostly other humans that were forcibly relocated to other planets? So then the prime directive shouldn’t really count because they’re all us
Captains have applied the PD to “lost” groups of humans on more than one occasion.
I mean it’s really not a moral thing, in stargate humanity would have been pretty fucked if they didn’t take every opportunity to bash on gods and arm people to revolt
brings to mind a quote from Zero Punctuation: “conservative policies I admit can be a bit callous…when we’re not about to be devoured!”
This got me thinking about who actually came up with the Prime Directive; was it humans or the Vulcans?
As they claim about many things, the Vulcans did it first.
Tell em Carter.
Just go knock out Apollo and call it a day.
