In the future: Adventures with the Prime Directive

The prime directive probably included tax cuts for all alien civilization members with income equal to 1000 times the average working alien's earnings, eh?

Of course what they didn't tell us was that the dilithium crystals originally were renewable but a company named Monsanto figured out how to change their internal structure into something more battery-like -- called them genetic dilithium crystals that could not be re-energized the old fashioned way …

and that for every prime directive violated, the Enterprise carried a contingency crew for easing the impact and cleaning up the mess:

 the Federation Enterprise Mop-up Authority:

 FEMA