So Spock was fine with breaking the Prime Directive to stop the volcano from destroying the planet, but flips because they saw the ship? Not very Spock like and he did the interfering himself.
faith begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Pike: Starfleet's mandate is to explore and observe, not to interfere.share
Spock: Had the mission gone according to plan, Admiral, the indigenous species would never have been aware of our interference.
Pike: That's a technicality.
Spock: I am Vulcan, sir. We embrace technicality.
I didn't miss all that. Spock is all for the rules and would have never interfered himself, so as I said before not very Spock like.
faith begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Regardless of whether the natives saw the ship or not, the interference of the Enterprise changed the path of that civilization. They should have perished in the eruption.
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