durango: (listening)
Deanna Troi ([personal profile] durango) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-02-20 01:03 pm (UTC)

"A little of both. I'm a psychologist, not a physicist, although I do understand the basics of the latter." (Granted, the "basics" in physics for a Starfleet officer is probably still more than average). "And our rules specifically forbid sharing of technology with pre-warp societies."

Admittedly, she's not entirely sure how she should apply the Prime Directive in this case - while the Cetagandans are not warp capable, they have found another means of interstellar travel - one that everyone in the Alpha quadrant has been pursuing for decades with little luck - putting them in a gray area.

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