cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24941150
Maj. Gen. Hammond: “Colonel, the United States is not in the business of interfering in other people’s affairs.” Colonel O’Neill: “Since when, sir?”
Elsewhere in the galaxy…
The Time Lords (in the classic series, at least) behaved similarly to Starfleet (IIRC, they even established a non-interference rule after the events described in “Underworld”). The Doctor would no doubt agree with SG1’s goals much of the time, just not their methods (with the exception of the Sixth Doctor, I can’t recall any of them actually using a gun).
A war going on changes everything, doesn’t it?
Anyway, the people they were sharing with weren’t naive societies that didn’t know there was life elsewhere on the galaxy. For those ones, they just presented themselves, warned about their enemies, and moved on trying to make the minimum possible impact.
A war going on changes everything, doesn’t it?
I think you need to watch this…
The answer is “yes, sometimes for the worse.”