About the Prime Directive

I don’t go into it much in Rogue Ship, because I didn’t want to bring the story to a halt with a lecture, but I really do think that the Prime Directive has its roots in colonialism.

I mean, colonialism.  It starts with the idea that non-white civilizations are inferior, “primitive,” and thus the Europeans get to rob them, rule them, and/or wipe them out.  You see the idea of polygenism—the idea that different races of humanity had originated from different sources—in the works of important t...