the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies theme
The ethical question of whether and to what extent it is morally acceptable for an advanced society to interfere in the everyday life and development of a less advanced society is discussed.
50 total · 17 choice · 19 major · 14 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent1x06 | choice | Crew contemplated forcing the less advanced Novans to abandon their planet and come back to Earth. |
| ent1x09 | choice | Archer decided to interfere in Akaali internal affairs against T'Pol's better judgment. |
| ent1x13 | choice | Archer had to decide whether they intervene to save one intelligent species on the planet at the possible future expense of another intelligent species. |
| ent2x02 | choice | T'Mir and Stron initially wished to avoid contaminating 1950s Earth culture at all cost, but ended up helping them out of a sense of compassion when the miners were trapped in an explosion and when Jack couldn't pay his tuition to enter college. |
| ent2x08 | choice | The crew needed to retrieve a communicator that Malcolm lost on a pre-warp world in order to not contaminate their culture. |
| ent4x11 | choice | The Organians said that they had a principle of not intervening in less advance societies, like the Prime Directive. |
| tng1x08 | choice | Captain Picard weighed violating Prime Directive to save Wesley from execution. |
| tng1x22 | choice | Picard choose not to interfere in the Brekkian-Ornaran dispute by refusing to be involved with dealing the drug. |
| tng2x15 | choice | Picard :: Data, seconded by Picard, violates Prime Directive to save Sarjenka |
| tng3x04 | choice | crew must undo harm done by violation of Prime Directive |