Scenario: There is some sort of horrific injustice happening on a planet that is clearly very bad. Idk something like, one planet has got another addicted to drugs to control them, or something. What do you do
Kirk: I will take off my shirt, do a little roll on the ground and stop the injustice immediately
Picard: Hmm. A horrible, clearly immoral and wrong injustice? Well. That’s a toughie. We do have the Prime Directive to think about. Staff to my ready room. It’s time to debate for 5 hours
Sisko: Well everybody, our hands are tied by the “Prime Directive”, Starfleet is very clear on this. However, if anybody wants to conveniently “not get the memo” on the “Prime Directive” I will not say anything 😉