The crew faces situations that are familiar to Star Trek fans and shows the origins of some concepts which have become taken for granted in Star Trek canon, such as Lt. Reed's development of force fields and Captain Archer's questions about cultural interference eventually being answered by later series ' Prime Directive.

This information below originates from the board wargame Star Fleet Battles, as well as related game systems such as Prime Directive and Federation and Empire.

Starfleet has a Prime Directive of non-interference with developing worlds or their internal politics.

For obvious continuity reasons, in Star Trek: Enterprise, the Prime Directive is conspicuously absent.

In the universe of Star Trek, 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 can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations.

The Prime Directive is a Starfleet regulation, and thus only applies to Starfleet officers.

The only stated exception to the Prime Directive is the Omega Directive, in which a captain is authorized to take any means to destroy Omega Molecules when detected.

Whenever the Omega Directive is in force, the Prime Directive is effectively rescinded.

The first reference to the Prime Directive occurs in the episode The Return of the Archons.

The Prime Directive is explicitly defined in the Star Trek episode " Bread and Circuses ," which is set in 2267:

The Prime Directive was not actually written into law until some years after the formation of the Federation — in the Star Trek episode " A Piece of the Action ," an early Federation ship, the Horizon, visited a primitive planet and left behind several items which altered the planet's culture significantly — most notably the book Chicago Mobs Of The Twenties, which the inhabitants quickly seized upon as a blueprint for their entire society.

An alternative origin comes from the Enterprise episode " Observer Effect ," where it is revealed that the Organians also adhere to a form of the Prime Directive.

In real life, the creation of the Prime Directive is generally credited to Gene L. Coon, although there is some contention as to whether science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, who wrote of the Prime Directive in an unused script for the original series, actually came up with it first.

The Prime Directive closely mirrors the zoo hypothesis explanation for the Fermi paradox.

Star Trek stories have used the Prime Directive as a literary device which allows the exploration of interactions with less advanced societies without the heroes having the overwhelming advantage of easy access to and use of their technology.

Since Star Trek has consistently used alien interactions as an allegory for the real world, the Prime Directive has served as a template to tell stories which resemble those of real human societies and their interactions with less technologically advanced societies, such as the interaction between modern cultures and indigenous peoples.

In the fictional storyline, the Prime Directive was created by Star Fleet and the United Federation of Planets shortly after they were first formed.

Since then the Prime Directive has been breached on many occasions, both accidentally and deliberately.

Starfleet's Omega Directive supersedes the Prime Directive allowing for any means possible to destroy the Omega particle if encountered ,.

Sisko seeks Starfleet's help, but the Prime Directive prevents it from interfering.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

left In keeping with his democratic ideals, Mackenzie refused the offer of a knighthood three times, and was thus the only one of Canada's first eight Prime Ministers not to be knighted.

* 1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

* 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Although his father had him baptised to Anglicanism at age 12, he was nonetheless Britain's first and thus far only Jewish Prime Minister.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

It was first proposed by South African Prime Minister J.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term, and the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament.

Progressive conservatism first arose as a distinct ideology in the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's " One Nation " Toryism.

The first Prime Minister Sir Albert Henry led the county until 1978 when he was accused of vote-rigging.

After achieving autonomy in 1965, the Cook Islands elected Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party as their first Prime Minister.

It was also, arguably, in the first steps of the Congo into independence, the underlying cause of the crisis between Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa Vubu, who ultimately dismissed each other, in 1960.

LeBlanc retired in 1974 and was replaced by Patrick John who became the islands ' first Prime Minister.

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

* 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, had her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

* 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

degree include Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici ( former President of Malta ), the late Prof. Guido de Marco ( former President of the United Nations General Assembly and former President of Malta ), the late Dr. George Borg Olivier ( first post-independence Prime Minister of Malta ), and Dr. Lawrence Gonzi ( current Prime Minister of Malta ).