#12 Enterprise: Dear Doctor

So I return! Sorry for the delay in posting anything new I have had too much stuff going on lately...

So with no more delay and more than 9 hours of trek viewing behind me I present to you my impressions of Dear Doctor... 

On-board are some sick aliens who are looking for help, it seems The episode has the crew stumbling onto a pre-warp ship.there entire world is suffering from a disease and they are in danger of extinction. It is decided the Enterprise can interfere because the species has had contact with other warp capable species, so they set down on the planet and have Doctor Phlox start looking for a cure. 

Are you ready for my hate of Captain Archer to grow? So it turns out that there are two sentient species on this planet and they live peacefully and somewhat symbiotic with each other. Also the disease is not a disease at all! Its a genetic mutation that will wipe out species A in a few generations allowing species B to become dominant. Heres what happens: The Doctor finds a cure - Archer and him have an argument, Archer wants to give out the cure but the Doctor says No because that would be tampering with the natural evolution of this planet and its species... 

Archer backs down from the Doctor and does not give out the cure, thus causing the preventable deaths of millions upon millions of species A. He cites that someday there will be a prime directive preventing him from interfering with this species as his reason:

  "Some day my people are going to come up with some sort of a doctrine, something that tells us what we can and can't do out here; should and shouldn't do. But until somebody tells me that they've drafted that...directive...I'm going to have to remind myself everyday that we didn't come out here to play God."

I disagree 100% The prime directive would not prevent the federation from helping this species for a number of reasons:

A) The species has already had contact with numerous other warp capable species. 

B) The other Species on this planet would inherit all the technology, and as a result would lose its own cultural identity anyway (the doctors argument)

C) The Vulcans have been helping humanity solve disease, hunger and other human issues for the last 90 years! 

This seems appropriate again.

The Doctor is still my favorite character on the ship, his argument was sound (in a way). There is also a small side plot with the Doctor coming into a relationship with Crewman Cutler....