re: #82 Kragar

I’m just going to come out and say it.

The Star Trek universe is lame. The “Prime Directive” is utter and complete horseshit.

The Prime Directive was one of those writer tools that made sense when originally created, but became a crutch upon which writers leaned when they had to create false tension. “It’s a planet with millions of people, but they don’t have warp drive, so we can do nothing but sit and watch them die.” Whenever an episode invoked the PD, it inevitably became a question of just how they’d find a way to paper over their violation of it.