You have neatly encapsulated several hours of screeching frustration on my part. The Prime Directive is SO inconsistent! The absolute nature of it made sense for non-spacefaring civilizations, so you don't accidentally come over all imperialist, but less so for the spacefaring ones. From a meta perspective the Prime Directive is whatever the writers need it to be to most effectively increase drama, but of course that's ragingly unhelpful to a Starfleet officer trapped in another galaxy intent on dragging her into their dramas...
Kem, our third author, is a linguistics nerd, and it's to them we owe all of Yoda's speech. The stuff that's correct, that is. The stuff that's incorrect would probably be me. Chester's universal translator is probably getting quite some help from Chester herself, who's used to doing the mental gymnastics necessary for going between Standard and Mandarin at home (Mandarin word order is the bane of my existence).
As always, thank you for your thoughtful and thorough comments!
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SevereAnnoyance on Chapter 4 Fri 22 Sep 2023 01:54AM UTC
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