This is the real reason Neelix left Voy early. He learned about Katie's ambassador to slave labor scam.
Honestly, 12,000 ambassadors would probably be pretty necessary to the Federation considering the huge number of independent planets there are, some with multiple governments.
What are you? Some sort of vulcan bringing logic into my memes?
You know, based on the shows I had always just assumed the federation planets all had one unified government, but upon thinking about it I realized that they never once say that in the shows.
They say that all the peoples of the planet must be in agreement, I believe. Can't quite remember, my last re-watch was last year.
But there would have to be lots of planets with split governments, or at the very least pseudo-governments that are remnants of old factions.
I could see former earth superpowers trying to somehow subvert others in the decades following first contact.
Even if the Federation member planets all have unified governments, the United States doesn't maintain ambassadors to Florida; ambassadors are for foreign relations.
My first thought was ONLY 12,000?
Indeed. The modern United States has about 200 ambassadors or so right now; are we to believe that the Alpha and Beta Quadrant geopolitical (galactopolitical?) sphere is only about 60x the size of the planet Earth?
There might be 300 million habitable planets in the Milky Way; if we assume that even just a tenth of those are inhabited by a society eligible for contact under the Prime Directive (IRL this would probably be a massive overestimation, but in Trek I think it's generally a decent estimate as I'd guess about a tenth of episodes involve contact with a new, never-before-seen alien), and that a tenth of those are in range of regular diplomacy with the Federation such that a standing ambassadorial appointment is necessary, and wildly overestimate that half of all those in range are members of the Federation, that still means that the Federation would need 1.5 million ambassadors solely for external affairs.
I think this meme is off by three orders of magnitude.
Is the multi government part canon? As far as I know there is even an episode about why the federation doesn’t like accepting members who aren’t unified on their world (the one with Picard and crusher being mentally linked).
Granted I have not watched all nutrek yet so maybe that’s out of date (though I would hate that, what Picard said about the why makes perfect sense).
This has nothing to do with accepting members. The U.S. doesn't send ambassadors to China because they want China to become part of the U.S.
Fair enough, I misread that part
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Lol, this is beautiful
Sure ambassadors are a dime a dozen in the Federation; but he'd still be the best one. Well... As long as he doesn't serve that leeola root garbage to anyone.
He's a team player, he'd still be gracious about it.
I really want someone to make a tv show in the trek universe that doesn't focus on Starfleet and just normalish lives of future earth
I want a traditional, multi-camera 1980s-90s sitcom, following the lives of a completely ordinary and typical Klingon family.
Like, nobody's actually currently serving in the Klingon Defense Forces, they're not a noble house, the adults have normal jobs, the kids have problems in school, etc. The writers just break out unashamedly cliché-ridden scripts, like it's Family Matters or Full House or Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.
Just a few episode premises, off the top of my head:
The teenage son gets waaaaay into human metal music, but nobody else in the household can stand it.
The father of the family has his relaxing weekend ruined, when his highly religiously observant in-laws take the Day of Honor far too seriously.
A crafty Ferengi catfishes the eldest daughter, using a holo-generator to create a whole fake boyfriend who's too good to be true. He's not a dashing war hero, he's just there to steal the family's financial access codes. The tech-savvy middle brother figures out what's going on and reverse-catfishes the Ferengi, with a hologram of his own. But it's a little creepy, because it's a fake Klingon woman who convinces the scammer that she wants to adopt a Ferengi lifestyle, including the submissive servitude and constant nudity.
Feral targs keep raiding the mother's gagh breeding tub, which she tends in the backyard. The father and eldest son take turns watching over the area with a disruptor at the ready, but they end up shooting the neighbor's prize show-targ instead. They only wound the beast, but the mother reveals that there's a huge targ-breeder show the next day, and they have to scramble to take the animal to the vet and get him fixed up, before the neighbor comes home to get him.
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