Screw the "Prime Directive"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

The Prime Directive is a Starfleet regulation, and thus only applies to Starfleet officers. Civilian citizens of the Federation are not bound by it. In fact, if a Federation citizen has chosen to personally interfere with another civilization, Starfleet is powerless to remove that individual, under penalty of court-martial.



I would find me a backwards planet of very hot women and set myself up as a God.
What could possibly go wrong?
 

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Before they could bust you anyway they'd have to prove you were from Earth.

Just lie, say you were from Geebleflarg 6, it's the Star Trek universe and every planet has humans on it, apparently... so how will they root you out?

Just remember to surgically remove your earthling tracking chip/identifier (i'm assuming there's one) and maybe get plastic surgery to have some ridges on your forehead or something.
 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

The Prime Directive is a Starfleet regulation, and thus only applies to Starfleet officers. Civilian citizens of the Federation are not bound by it. In fact, if a Federation citizen has chosen to personally interfere with another civilization, Starfleet is powerless to remove that individual, under penalty of court-martial.



I would find me a backwards planet of very hot women and set myself up as a God.
What could possibly go wrong?

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just setup the Holodeck for some "Holosex"?
 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

The Prime Directive is a Starfleet regulation, and thus only applies to Starfleet officers. Civilian citizens of the Federation are not bound by it. In fact, if a Federation citizen has chosen to personally interfere with another civilization, Starfleet is powerless to remove that individual, under penalty of court-martial.



I would find me a backwards planet of very hot women and set myself up as a God.
What could possibly go wrong?

According to "The Golden Bough" some ancient belief systems about living Gods involve a spirit that resides in the God's person. In those systems its very important that when the God's vessel is seen to age or weaken in any way that it must be slain immediately (and brutally) so the God's spirit can find a new, healthier, vessel. I vaguely remember reading an essay which suggested this is what was going on in Conrad's Heart of Darkness- Kurtz was starting to falter, hence 'the horror'.
(I was quite chuffed to notice 'The Golden Bough' was on the top of Kurtz's pile of books glimpsed in Apocalypse Now, incidently)

Also check out The Man Who Would be King, the Caine/Connery film based on the Kipling story. Similar sort of problem. Be alert for dramatic irony in general, in fact.
 

exdeath

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And without being Starfleet, how do you plan to acquire a FTL starship as an individual to explore and settle on said planet?

Mind you such a planet is likely out of the way and not likely in the neighborhood.
 
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No one likes Wesley.
 
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