Reflecting on Afghanistan and the Starfleet Prime Directive

What’s so difficult about realizing you can’t convert a culture in under three generations?

The Prime Directive prohibits Starfleet personnel and spacecraft from interfering in the normal development of any society, and mandates that any Starfleet vessel or crew member is expendable to prevent violation of this rule. Fair use.

I wonder how many people have given some serious thought to Gene Roddenberry’s idea that the most important ethic for Star Fleet was never to interfere in the local affairs of evolving civilizations. I know I…