>As for the Autobots, they do have their own ideas, but they also tend
>to try and stick to the established rules - they like to make an
>effort at being good galactic citizens and the like.

Though I would think that having one as a sponser would cause the
the Board to consider the application a little more carefully.

but at that point it becomes kind of like
>a Starfleet crew gritting their teeth, sucking it up, and letting that
>planet full of hapless primitives get whaled on by the comet because
>the Prime Directive forbids them to intervene.

I never liked the Prime Directive. My ST knowledge is a bit rusty,
but when I see it invoked, nine times out of time, it is usally an
excuse to avoid getting one's hands dirty.

>(Whereas the WDF would just waste the comet with the Reflex Cannon and
>give the primitives a new mythology. :)

May knock their culture for a loop, but at list their still alive
to have one.

Brad