So the moral high ground that is typical of the Star Trek world is taken to an extreme here. The story has a few flaws as pointed out in other reviews. My largest issue is in all the years that the prime directive has been around and the number of times that the Enterprise and other members of the Federation have bumped up against it they have never made any adjustments to the basic framework. No addendum, no exceptions, No paragraph 1 subparagraph C rules...Nothing. They simply keep coming across problem after problem and throwing the same "rule" at it and breaking that same rule. Isn't that the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Yet another bad episode from season 7.