Two thoughts, someone let me know if I'm ass-backwards wrong on them. One: the Prime Directive thingie in Star Trek. I'm kind of thinking this is actually a nice idea on their part, rather than the might-be-dippy plot device I used to think it; rather, it might be a clever play on avoiding this: "Knowledge of the Orient, because generated out of strength, in a sense creates the Orient…the Oriental is containedand represented by dominating frameworks" (Said, Orientalism). Orientalizing being something like marginalizing, creating an image of others that keeps them inferior, or basically dominating another population culturally. Was that a sentence fragment? Screw it. So the Prime Directive seems kind of iffy; in one sense, the Federation is generating its knowledge out of strength, so they wouldn't be able to help but Orientalize a given culture. In another sense, however, it seems that the Prime Directive acts as a nice check, at least, on the Federation exploiting their position of power, as they can't intefere until the pre-warp culture is at least on a more equal standing. On the other hand, as Stephen pointed out, the Federation constantly breaks the Prime Directive, so monkeys.
      Aaand, I'll get to the other thought later, movie time.

Guess-the-google - "surprisingly addictive" is right (via Wyatt)

Lexicon - basically, a game where you make your own encylopedia on a fictional subject, using a kind of Wiki format, which I think could be horribly fun if, say, a bunch of people enjoy the same game or book series...and an example (via Printculture)