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#prime directive

adorablesergal
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I guess I can get a PS-90 if I pretty-please the RCMP, but they're ridonk expensive :(

adorablesergal
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There's something satisfying tho about a race of apes on a planet that haven't even accomplished crewed interstellar travel yet, let alone interplanetary travel, but they have mastered throwing little bits of metal super-duper fast at things and people they don't like...

And then they find an ancient techno-hula hoop that creates spacetime slip-n-slides, and they get loose into the cosmos and go toe to toe with one of the most ancient and advanced civilisations the galaxy has ever had the displeasure to be infected by, and these ape guys are mopping the floor with them somehow, and everyone is like wtf?

Like, if this were Star Trek, this would be a nightmare Prime Directive scenario of a pre-warp species asserting its power on the galactic stage.

I seem to recall there was a sci-fi book or short story where a bunch of templar guys or crusaders or whatever, they were Christian assholes, but they got ahold of a spaceship and immediately started trying to convert aliens. Wish I could remember the name of it.

mup
@mup

TNG's Symbiosis analysis attempt 1

Apparently this episode is about the Prime Directive, but, like, I don't get how it could be.

The Directive just says you can't interfere with others, but that was broken as soon as the Enterprise saved the freighter's crew, and that crew was dying otherwise. We're past the point of non-interference now, and every decision after that is an active one. The question then is how do you undo that interference? Well, surely you just kill the aliens, right?

dizzy-h-slightly-voided
@dizzy-h-slightly-voided

I also dreamed that I was playing some old adventure game on CD-ROM; there were a bunch of aliens with an aesthetic which the dream compared to Lilo and Stitch. I was wandering around with a group of NPC aliens, and we came across a group of humans who were on our planet for some reason; one of the NPCs turned to me and said we couldn't have much contact with them, because "Remember the number-one rule: no interference!" In the dream, I-the-player thought this was a direct reference to Star Trek's Prime Directive.

Then it turned into a Nier Automata plot where I was playing as 2B and 9S, who'd crashlanded on a planet somewhere or something, and needed to aquire supplies in order to survive/get repairs or something, and also 2B was desperate to hide her 2E secret identity from 9S. I found myself in dire need of screwdrivers of various sizes (for no specified reason), and I kept finding more and more of them in my inventory.