"Federation Unity at the Point of a Phaser:" Star Trek Admits Its Own Hypocrisy, Going Back to TOS

This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Defiant #4Star Trek, going back to The Original Series, has been built on stories of first contact between the Federation and new alien races throughout the galaxy, with these interactions governed by Starfleet’s Prime Directive, its most important mission guideline for space exploration. Of course, especially in storytelling, rules are made only to be bent, broken, twisted – and as is the case in IDW’s Star Trek: Defiant #4, questioned.