TAS s1e8 "The Magicks of Megas-tu" and the sadly not real Star Trek: Voyager - The Animated Series
Kirk knows as well as any command officer, it's more a vague recommendation.
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In TOS, Kirk really didn’t hesitate all. They saw the Klingons were providing muskets and decided to just do it, ostensibly maintain social balance between two groups.
Why Klingons would provide earth-developed weapons is beyond me, but whatever. Kirk has zero coniptions about it- even if he does recognize that it’s wrong (“a hundred serpents for the garden.”)
As for Picard… I would suggest that the prime directive is bullshit, anyhow. Like the non-intervention and no-tech-sharing stuff. It seems more likely to be designed to prevent federation tech from getting into the wrong hands.
Or at least the good stuff likely to be on a feddie warship.