The prime Directive ingame

[Elysia]

so im doing the federation missions at the start of the game, and the admiral tells me threy cannot help the remans as it would violate the prime directive. But the remans and romulan are both warp capable species, the prime directive does not apply. The prime directive is for not intervening with non-warp species.
Do the admirals in the game no know their own primary rule?

[Spirit]

it has nothing to do with the prime directive , more like "its a romulan affair , we have no rights to meddle in it"

[Bruceusa2086]

it's one of the rules of the prime directive...do not interfere in the affairs of species that the Federation has no business getting their hands dirty in...one such example is the klingon civil war that worf was involved in that picard couldn't help him with as getting involved in the fight to help gowron fight an enemy would be considered interference in klingon empire affairs...which means the only thing picard could do is set up a blockade to keep the romulans and Sela from smuggling more illegal weapons to the duras

[NIkto Barada]

yes.mind you i wonder what section 31 was doing

[🦊 Hermit]

Yeah, the PD does actually cover interfering in the development/politics/culture of other races, even if they are warp capable. The part about not contacting primitive races is the most well-known part, but isn't the only aspect to it.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Prime_Directive

Of course, most of it was conveniently ignored in the show when it would make the story more difficult though. For example, the PD didn't stop Picard, Data and Worf going dirt racing and having a vehicular gun battle with a pre-warp culture when collecting B4's body parts in Nemesis, and the directive was never even hinted at throughout it.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by NIkto Barada:

yes.mind you i wonder what section 31 was doing

Nothing.
Why do you ask.
What even is Section 31?
There is nothing to see here, please move along.

[NuclearSnail]

Originally posted by Elysia:

so im doing the federation missions at the start of the game, and the admiral tells me threy cannot help the remans as it would violate the prime directive. But the remans and romulan are both warp capable species, the prime directive does not apply. The prime directive is for not intervening with non-warp species.
Do the admirals in the game no know their own primary rule?

If the romulans and remans don't ask for help, then it's an internal affair, and the prime directive absolutely applies.

Personally, I think the prime directive is stupid and causes more harm than it prevents.

[Elysia]

there is this small line 'But it also applied to the internal affairs of societies which knew extensively of other worlds' in the whole page on the memory alpha page that said it, i missed it. But are there any episodes where it is said, as the memory alpha page seems to not mention sources when it makes the claim it applies to infernal afairs also

[The Field Marshal]

Originally posted by Sirius:

Originally posted by NIkto Barada:

yes.mind you i wonder what section 31 was doing

Nothing.
Why do you ask.
What even is Section 31?
There is nothing to see here, please move along.

They are asking too many questions and have seen too much, I'm afraid their going to half to disappear Jim.

[delta]

If there's all these Romulans and Remans being terrorized by the Tal Shiar and Imperial loyalists, why don't they just join the Federation?

[Aegyssus]

The mighty The Prime Directive, is just a dramatic "joke" that was broken at least 34 times already ...

Similar a bit with the doctor's Hippocratic Oath.
(yup, I'm looking at u dr. Mengele, u worthless piece of s**t ! )

[delta]

Another storyline question... in Fluidic Destruction there's a Xindi delegate and he mentions the Sphere Builders. But the Tuterians don't become the Sphere Builders until you accidentally mess up the timeline in Butterfly. Since this is still a pre-Butterfly timeline, shouldn't the events of ST Enterprise never have happened?

[Wormwood]

Originally posted by delta:

If there's all these Romulans and Remans being terrorized by the Tal Shiar and Imperial loyalists, why don't they just join the Federation?

Because the Remans are also quite Xenophobic and do not trust easily. And they aren't a proper Organized race, they are a mix of Reman Revolutionaries who is trying to survive. And, officially, the Federation can't intervene, officially, if they did, they'd piss off the Romulan Imperials and may cause conflict, which the Federation do not want.

Originally posted by delta:

Another storyline question... in Fluidic Destruction there's a Xindi delegate and he mentions the Sphere Builders. But the Tuterians don't become the Sphere Builders until you accidentally mess up the timeline in Butterfly. Since this is still a pre-Butterfly timeline, shouldn't the events of ST Enterprise never have happened?

That's most likely a misstake on the hands of the writers. But then again, time is f*cking weird in the Star Trek Universe :D