The Prime Directive

Thought I would share this with you, as I have been asked (and/or admonished for doing it and for refusing to do it) why we at Indie are not helping more in the shooting and editing process – or, in contrapartie, why we have occasionally suddenly ‘helped out’ or – to quote one young fellow ‘become fascist’. Well, we are (mostly) only human...
It goes like this:

INDIE PRIME DIRECTIVE

In the Star Trek universe, the Prime Directive, Starfleet's General Order #1, is the most prominent guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets. The Prime Directive dictates that there be no interference with the natural development of any primitive society, chiefly meaning that no primitive culture can be given or exposed to any information regarding advanced technology or alien races. It also forbids any effort to improve or change in any way the natural course of such a society, even if that change is well-intentioned and kept totally secret. "Primitive" is defined as any culture which has not yet attained warp drive. Starfleet allows scientific missions to investigate and move amongst pre-warp civilizations as long as no advanced technology is left behind, and there is no interference with events or no revelation of their identity.
It appears that the non-interference concept originated with Vulcans and predated the formation of the Federation in 2161 but did not exist on pre-Federation Earth.

This is why Indie staff may comment, suggest, demonstrate techniques and help with drudge work but may not actually DO THE CREATIVE WORK on a student project.

Just ask Mr. Spock.

I hope that’s clear…