If an “uncontacted” group here on earth suddenly arrived at the nearest “civilized” settlement and asked for help curing a disease ravaging their people, would you advocate we turn away?
What if the disease is something easily cured with modern medicine?
A blanket rule to not “interfere” with civilizations based on an arbitrary criteria (in ST: warp capable) is immoral.
That’s a misrepresentation of the Prime Directive. The prime directive has an exception for cases where societies already knows about interstellar civilizations and Starfleet can intervene if it’s contacted first. See Saru’s case.
If an “uncontacted” group here on earth suddenly arrived at the nearest “civilized” settlement and asked for help curing a disease ravaging their people, would you advocate we turn away?
What if the disease is something easily cured with modern medicine?
A blanket rule to not “interfere” with civilizations based on an arbitrary criteria (in ST: warp capable) is immoral.
That’s a misrepresentation of the Prime Directive. The prime directive has an exception for cases where societies already knows about interstellar civilizations and Starfleet can intervene if it’s contacted first. See Saru’s case.
The arbitrary criteria I spoke of is slightly different. 🤷♂️