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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The High Ground (1990)
Let's preach about prime directive and then casually violate it
There are a bunch of poorly written things in this episode. First Beverly refuses to eat or talk, and then for no reason suddenly changes her mind. Why? So that the story can continue. Beverly's motivation is that the episode needs to do something... I guess?
Next the crew continuously talk about how they cannot interfere in the conflict, and their only concern is getting their hostages back and they won't take sides. So when they find the terrorists' location what do they do? They beam in **and bring the leader of the one side with a weapon so that she can murder the leader of the other side.** WHY?!?!? There was absolutely no reason for them to bring her along, especially since it is a direct violation of the prime directive. Even telling her or her government where they located the terrorists would be involving themselves and taking a side in the conflict, yet after all their talk about noninterference they took it so much further than that.
But hey it served the plot by allowing the leader to make a speech, and not even a good one at that. Oh wait, that didn't even serve the plot, the story would have been pretty much the same had they just rescued the hostages and left without her being there.
On the bright side, I am looking forward to the Irish reunification in 2024, which is only two years from now!