Barbossa should have been a starfleet captain
Ask him if he’ll ever violate the prime directive:
More like, Command’s personal opinion…
The hat rivalry with Guinan would’ve been intense.
I imagine Barbosa and Janeway would have gotten along
He would’ve made admiral for sure!
There’s a difference between understanding a rule and it’s rationale and breaking it because you know it isn’t ideal in this circumstance, and breaking a rule without a full understanding of why it is there and what the results may be, I suppose.
That’s sort of how I feel about art. People like Picasso’s weird paintings because they know he can paint conventionally. Cubism was an intentional choice.
Once you know rules, wisdom and creativity know when to break them.
How would people native to a given time period even know the temporal prime directive in the first place? And couldn’t you stop the one proliferating the knowledge of it in the first place?
You mean like how would the people native to the timeline know it was tampered with?
Unless they’re El Aurian, a Borg Queen (or any species with trans-temporal awareness) or otherwise insulated from time like the Krenem time ship, then they probably wouldn’t.
Like my hero, the Chief… I hate temporal mechanics…
yeah like that.
Hang on, I might know a guy who can help…
Brother Cavil in colonial clothing?!
Colonel Grat is actually a temporal agent! I knew he was going in too hard against the Suliban.
damn those time travelers!
I appreciated that in SNW they called it out as an odd name when SF adopted it officially.
Prime Directive? Schmime Directive!
