Basically nothing in Star Trek makes any sense, as far as the social consequences of the setting. The writers are constantly having to struggle with it. You've

Basically nothing in Star Trek makes any sense, as far as the social consequences of the setting. The writers are constantly having to struggle with it. You've got the original series' pretty strong but apparently-accidental dystopic vibes, constant trouble with sorting out how the whole "the Federation doesn't have money" thing works[0], holodecks only rarely having the kind of effects everyone knows they would, and so on. [0] Some major Tenacious D "City Hall" vibes with how well that part of the setting works. "Third decree: No more rich people, and poor people. From now on we will all be the same! Umm... I don't know, I gotta think about that...."