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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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I remind my colleague that replication is a vital component of the scientific method.

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NBI. Cultural exchange is not only one of the fundamental principles upon which the United Federation of Planets was built, but also among the purest expressions of IDIC.

If said cultural exchange were to reveal the innate superiority of the Vulcan species, one could hardly be held responsible.

Indeed, it would be an invaluable contribution to existing bodies of evidence demonstrating just that.

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wanders into a thread to defend bigots

wonders why everyone assumes they’re a bigot

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THE RACISTS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT RACIST

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Janine from “Ghostbusters” shouting, with the caption, “WE GOT ONE!”

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I assume they’re returning to their truck to retrieve some sort of accelerant.

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Janine from “Ghostbusters” shouting, with the caption, “WE GOT ONE!”

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look, I’m not here to kink shame you

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WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE RACISTS

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Unfortunately, by season four Discovery was just going with “Spaceship”.

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I think you might be able to draw a parallel with long-running serials like comic books, or even Star Trek itself. They tend to revisit old themes and revolve around a certain status quo.

They tend not to involve multigenerational obedience to an authoritarian regime, though…

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There’s precedent…

A still from “One Little Ship” featuring Worf looking through the window of a tiny runabout, with Jadzia inside blowing him a kiss.

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Well yes, but I’m sure they could reverse the polarity of something and make it happen.

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Easily the, uh, biggest episode of the series!

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Eddington was Canadian, though. We have no law to fit his crime.

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new instance mascot just dropped

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Commodore Oh rocking regulation sunglasses

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I’m not sure the people who engage in this sort of tomfoolery are concerned with atomic clock-level precision.

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It is not good.*

*in my personal, but I think pretty uncontroversial, opinion.

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Q did it? Seems fine

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it didn’t seem to have an answer for why the Federation didn’t use it later.

Well, you need to either find and enslave an exotic space tardigrade in order to navigate the network, or illegally splice said tardigrade’s DNA into your own.

And even then, navigation is pretty challenging, and can result in accidental time and/or interdimensional travel.

And a malfunction has the potential to destroy all life in the multiverse.

And both ships that had the prototypes installed were lost within about a year.

Take your pick, really.

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Spock flat-out said it at the end of “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”, albeit with a focus on the time travel shenanigans of the second season:

Regulation 157, Section 3 requires Starfleet officers to abstain from participating in historical events. Any residual trace or knowledge of Discovery’s data, or the time suit, offers a foothold for those who might not see how critical, how deeply critical, that directive is.

Therefore, to insure the Federation never finds itself facing the same danger, all officers remaining with knowledge of these events must be ordered never to speak of Discovery, its spore drive, or her crew again, under penalty of treason.

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The Romulan operative Nedar wore sunglasses while on duty as Starfleet Commodore Oh - this suggests they’re at least an option for Starfleet officers.

Commodore Oh wearing sunglasses

If you go way back to the United Earth Starfleet, Archer and Trip both wore sunglasses while on duty.

Archer and Trip wearing sunglasses

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