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"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting." - Picard
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TNG s2e9 "The Measue of a Man"
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I dunno. I think Picard taking a phaser to Riker because he's being a dick would be even more memorable. Glorious. Possibly even grandiose if Picard put a little brandish in the draw.
Lets just be realistic here, the Prime Directive wouldn't work if they hadn't already sorted them. first off, the PD is restricted to sentient life or cultures. If it weren't, eating a non-replicated salad would break the PD. or keeping a houseplant. Which, then would obviously require some highly codified definition of what 'sentient' was- and almost certainly would have already had massive amounts of precedent, including standardized tests to be applied whenever someone who might be sentient is found.
Presumably, the only reason the PD would not apply to Data is because he was "made". but the PD applies to clones, which are also made.
"Did you run the sentience tests?" "yes...?" "Did he pass?" "but he was manufactured!! they don't apply?" "Did he pass?"
Maddox new this, is which is probably why he waited until Data was off Earth, or so far on the fringe that the only appropriate place to hear this was on a fringe space station so new that the JAG officer didn't have enough jurors and had to do a drumhead trial.