Comments on: Have NASA’s Mars Rovers Violated The Prime Directive?

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:23:44 +0000

Thanks for the update (on Science Friday) … I remind the writer that the Prime Directive won’t be written for 200 years, so it’s just fine morally, theologically, and legally to vaporize the sons-of-a-wormes on Mars.

Hurry back, Kayla. You’re why I’m here. If I see visions of the Virgin Mary, Spock, or the other annointed one … oh yeah Obama on my Waffles, you’ll be the first to know.

By: Scott Hedrick

Scott Hedrick — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:22:55 +0000

WolfTrek, there’s always the danger of disturbing some pre-animate matter caught in a matrix.

By: Crewman Darnell

Crewman Darnell — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:29:28 +0000

“They made their way to the outer rim of the dreaming dead city in the light of the racing twin moons. Their shadows, under them, were double shadows. They did not breathe, or seemed not to, perhaps, for several minutes. They were waiting for something to stir in the dead city, some gray form to rise, some ancient ancestral shape to come galloping across the vacant sea bottom on an ancient, armored steed of impossible lineage, of unbelievable derivation.”

(The Martian Chronicles) –Ray Bradbury

By: RetroWarbird

RetroWarbird — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:33:40 +0000

I don’t think the Prime Directive is applicable within a home Star System.

Anything that happens at Sol stays at Sol, and is an “internal affair” between us and the species of Mars, Io, Ganymede, Triton or the acid-spitting lizard people of the deep caves on Venus.

We’re dealing with an Eminiar vs. Vendikar or Ekos vs. Zeon situation here. For real answers, we’ll want to look to Rigel … a Star System that’s got like ten habitable worlds in near orbit of it’s sun, several intelligent species, and probably a loooooooooooong history of interplanetary civil wars and strife.

By: John James

John James — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:33:56 +0000

For all you know, we are martians.

By: TrekMadeMeWonder

TrekMadeMeWonder — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:05:07 +0000

You can bet if there was not life there already, then there is life there now.
The landers surley brought some microrganisms to Mars with them.

Perhaps in 10 million years we will know for sure.

Besides the Prime Directive only applies to developing cultures, right?

By: TrekkyStar

TrekkyStar — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:43:47 +0000

The article says they are destroying SIGNS OF LIFE, not life.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:30:45 +0000

If the sudden death of 430 Vulcans on the Intrepid shocked Spock psychically before, I wonder what he and the survivors felt when Vulcan imploded and billions died? Spock seemed more upset about his mother than anything else. With all that, I’m surprised he could even function until Kirk unhinged him.

BTW, Nimoy says the new Trek movie will outperform Star Wars… really!
http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/05/nimoy-trek-will-surpass-star-wars.html

By: falcon

falcon — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:00:34 +0000

Ugh. Forget about finding intelligent life on other planets – we have yet to find it on this one.

By: CmdrR

CmdrR — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:00:49 +0000

Dark they were and golden brown…