there's some discourse about the "egg prime directive" going on and as a fresh treckhead i feel like i have more authority than most to point out that not only was the prime directive created as a way to create dramatic tension when it inevitably needed to be violated in some way, its a huge part of the thesis that a rule like that would, by necessity, have to be skirted or violated in many cases as it creates a ton of moral ambiguity.

like for me it was important to know that it was an option, that i wouldn't be some man in a dress like i had always seen trans women depicted, and have stupid problematic shit i believed (again, due to terrible messaging, growing up in a cult with racist parents, and specific circumstances i was in decades ago that i have since challenged and deconstructed as one should do and always be continually doing) like that only asian people really ever passed corrected. taking a "prime directive" seriously to make me not aware it was an option would be horrible

we're not self-contained ecosystems, or societies onto ourselves without alien contact, asserting so is fundamentally denying what it means to be human, which is kiiiiiind of a huge fuckin part of what star trek opines about. people need role models, they need to know what is possible. making people aware of others, of other ways to live, of what is possible, is not and should never be considered indoctrination, as that is a fundamentally reactionary position. it's also reactionary to try to indoctrinate people into something they are not inclined to do themselves, even when that "thing" is considered transgressive by conservative/mainstream reactionaries. this is all you need to remember, not some stupid egg prime directive bullshit because you can't even understand Gene Roddenberry's Least Subtle Metaphors Ever Made Space Show for Children and People with Girlbrains (gene had a bit of a misogyny problem)