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* In short with as little supposition as possible we can surmise that the UFP has a Constitutional Republic style government that manages joint affairs for the whole Federation. They're official head of government is the President an executive position that holds power over the armed forces and has emergency powers but typically acts as a head of state handling diplomatic matters. The legislative authority over this shared government is vested in the Federation Council made up of elected representatives from member species or planets. This Council has authority over all member planets but only on matters which are within its purview the exact scope of which we do not know All other matters are handled at the local level with each member planet retaining much of its political autonomy, so long as they don't violate Federation law they can do as they please. Finally Star Fleet operates as a service branch of the Federation Government providing everything from armed forces to scientific research, interstellar transport, and emergency aid. Star Fleet captains are vested with the authority to make immediate decisions as needed on time sensitive matters and conduct initial diplomacy before long term ambassedors are assigned, though they are subject to review or if needed court marshal by the Federation Council and the Admirility Board if their actions prove to have been ill concieved, self serving, or in violation of Federation law.
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** In Insurrection and First Contact, Lieutenant Daniels seems to be the security chief of the Enterprise-E. Why is he not even present at senior officers meeting? Is Picard always waiting for a Worf's comeback? Worf’s not filling in empty chair, contrary to Spock in the Motion Picture and Chekov in The Wrath of Khan.
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** In Insurrection and First Contact, Lieutenant Daniels seems to be the security chief of the Enterprise-E. Why is he not even present at senior officers meeting? Is Picard always waiting for a Worf's comeback? Worf’s Worf's not filling in empty chair, contrary to Spock in the Motion Picture and Chekov in The Wrath of Khan.
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* Maybe a far-fetched comparison but, let's say that the Federation is like the European Union and the Klingons like Russia and I guess the Romulans can be China. Why? Well the Federation seems to be a parliamentary system (the president is elected by the Council that is like a parliament) and their policy is very similar to the EU; members retaining a lot of internal autonomy but with a somewhat central government that establish certain regulations, as for example no member of the EU can have death penalty, as similar no member of the Federation can have a caste system (according to Sisko), and so on, they also are more based on democracy, human rights and peaceful cooperation (yes the EU sometimes is hypocritical about it, but also is the Federation). So, even when the EU has some very powerful members that are powers on their own, like Germany and France (the Federation's equivalents to Earth and Vulcan), but the question is; if the EU and Russia go to war, can the EU really stands a chance? Or what about a war with China? They’ll be even at best. So kind of the problem is to think that the Federation is the United States, it is not, it is more like the European Union of the Galaxy. So we can see how in real life one single country like the USA, Russia and China can defeat relatively easily a group of countries just because they have more military power at hand, so the whole debate is wether the Klingon and the Romulans, alone, can be a match for 150 planets; well yes, can Russia win over the whole African Union? Well, probably.
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* Maybe a far-fetched comparison but, let's say that the Federation is like the European Union and the Klingons like Russia and I guess the Romulans can be China. Why? Well the Federation seems to be a parliamentary system (the president is elected by the Council that is like a parliament) and their policy is very similar to the EU; members retaining a lot of internal autonomy but with a somewhat central government that establish certain regulations, as for example no member of the EU can have death penalty, as similar no member of the Federation can have a caste system (according to Sisko), and so on, they also are more based on democracy, human rights and peaceful cooperation (yes the EU sometimes is hypocritical about it, but also is the Federation). So, even when the EU has some very powerful members that are powers on their own, like Germany and France (the Federation's equivalents to Earth and Vulcan), but the question is; if the EU and Russia go to war, can the EU really stands a chance? Or what about a war with China? They’ll They'll be even at best. So kind of the problem is to think that the Federation is the United States, it is not, it is more like the European Union of the Galaxy. So we can see how in real life one single country like the USA, Russia and China can defeat relatively easily a group of countries just because they have more military power at hand, so the whole debate is wether the Klingon and the Romulans, alone, can be a match for 150 planets; well yes, can Russia win over the whole African Union? Well, probably.
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* There's also the balance between an out-of-universe explanation of TheMainCharactersDoEverything (the actor portraying the ship's Chief Medical Officer is the one drawing a regular's paycheck, so they appear instead of any particular specialist) and there ARE references to other doctors on the Enterprise - Doctor Selar appeared in The Schizoid Man, and there were references to her throughout the series, as well as a Doctor Hill in Remember Me. There IS a medical staff on board, presumably with their own specialties. The CMO takes point, but this doesn't discount the rest of the people operating alongside them.
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* There's also the balance between an out-of-universe explanation of TheMainCharactersDoEverything (the actor portraying the ship's Chief Medical Officer is the one drawing a regular's paycheck, so they appear instead of any particular specialist) and there ARE references to other doctors on the Enterprise - Doctor Selar appeared in The Schizoid Man, and there were references to her throughout the series, as well as a Doctor Hill in Remember Me. There IS a medical staff on board, presumably with their own specialties. The CMO takes point, but this doesn't discount the rest of the people operating alongside them.
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* There's also the balance between an out-of-universe explanation of TheMainCharactersDoEverything (the actor portraying the ship's Chief Medical Officer is the one drawing a regular's paycheck, so they appear instead of any particular specialist) and there ARE references to other doctors on the Enterprise - Doctor Selar appeared in The Schizoid Man, and there were references to her throughout the series, as well as a Doctor Hill in Remember Me. There IS a medical staff on board, presumably with their own specialties. The CMO takes point, but this doesn't discount the rest of the people operating alongside them.
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** There were initially only twelve ''Galaxy''-class starships built (with half of those initially having only the spaceframes built for later completion) and at least one (the ''Yamato'') was lost very early in its career. While more must have been build by the time of the Dominion War (the DS9 episode "Sacrifice of Angels" had 10 ''Galaxy''s visible in a single fleet), one would expect the original 6 to garner the most fame (at the time of their building, they were the most technologically advanced and powerful ever built by the Federation), barring extraordinary feats by the later ships during the war. And ''Enterprise''-D has the additional point in its favor of inherenting the "Enterprise" name, arguably the most exalted in Starfleet history.
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** There were initially only twelve ''Galaxy''-class starships built (with half of those initially having only the spaceframes built for later completion) and at least one (the ''Yamato'') was lost very early in its career. While more must have been build by the time of the Dominion War (the DS9 [=DS9=] episode "Sacrifice of Angels" had 10 ''Galaxy''s visible in a single fleet), one would expect the original 6 to garner the most fame (at the time of their building, they were the most technologically advanced and powerful ever built by the Federation), barring extraordinary feats by the later ships during the war. And ''Enterprise''-D has the additional point in its favor of inherenting the "Enterprise" name, arguably the most exalted in Starfleet history.
