XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: sureshot@pcwranglers.com   
      
   Lucas Bachmann wrote:   
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   > ToolPackinMama wrote:   
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   > > That's correct.  Because it would be a violation of the PD.  Therefore   
   > > he wouldn't do it in the ep because his comrades won't permit it.  Later   
   > > he wouldn't do it because he would have calmed down.   
   >   
   > The Prime Directive doesn't apply since the klingons destroyed any   
   > natural course of history the planet may have taken.  If anything   
   > the planet was damned to participate in a proxy war between   
   > the two powers, as Kirk explicitly stated with the vietnam reference.   
      
   Thank you, but I believe you are mistaken.  The PD is in effect through   
   the whole thing, as we are several times reminded in the ep.   
      
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