Episode 2: Prime Directive

Rated R for Language

Is there a protocol for beaming down next to a new culture in their uniforms? Why does McCoy still use phasers on primitive planets? Is naming a child Leonard James on another planet breaking the prime directive? Should they not beam down at all to planets under the prime directive? How many stagnant societies are in this episode?

Join Ashlyn and Rhianna as we discuss the Prime Directive episodes in TOS!

This is the second episode of the Prime Directive series, where Ashlyn and Rhianna talk about the good and bad examples in every Star Trek show, starting with the Original Series and ending with Strange New Worlds.

Next time, we’ll be counting Picard’s Prime Directive violations in the Next Generation!

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Our intro and outro is by Jerry Goldsmith.

Rule of Acquisition #184: “Ferengi waits to bid until his opponents have exhausted themselves.”

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