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Isn't Star Trek about everyone basically working for the government (ie, in the military)?
by personlurking 12y ago
Isn't Star Trek about everyone basically working for the government (ie, in the military)?
- TeMPOraL 12y agoNo; Star Trek focuses on the "military" branch (Starfleet), but the majority of the population of United Federation of Planets are civilians.
- personlurking 12y agoI stand corrected. Picard's home comes to mind. There has never been an attempt at a television series depicting Star Trek outisde Starfleet, correct? I mean, something created by the makers of Star Trek.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI don't know of any. Deep Space Nine came the closest, especially before the Dominion War arc. While the station itself was commanded by a Starfleet officer, it was still a sovereign Bajoran territory and most of the inhabitants were civilians.
- ocdtrekkie 12y agoWell, everyone apparently works for free under the Roddenberry vision, so figure that one out. Presumably if corporations aren't controlling things like the Federation database, it would seem likely a significant portion of all real development is going straight to the government though, yeah.