If the cycle of dooming is getting everyone down, it can only mean a refreshing return of either Captain Planet or Star Trek discussions.
I'm just gonna get ahead of the eventual sci-fi sperging, get my unwanted opinion out there and say the Prime Directive was based as fuck. Okay yeah, in the shows it wasn't always the case. It was a good plot device to wrap an episode around which led to some entertaining thoughts and discussions, but I'm talking real world applications. The idea that enlightened, developed people shouldn't interact with lesser, savage races is so spot on. Time and again we've seen how ungrateful and outright resentful these backwards niggers are when it comes to any attempt to elevate their societies to our level.
All these brown, inbred fucks should have either been conquered or ignored. Treating them as anything close to equals should have never happened unless we observed them unfucking their shit and they extended their hands out in friendship first, and even then the offer should have been scrutinized to hell and back before giving them the slightest inkling of trust.