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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 week ago Neither humanity nor the Federation are run by a military government.
While I agree with you that it’s almost certainly not the intent, we unfortunately have seen that a shocking number of uniformed Starfleet officers sit on the Federation Council.
The Federation Council as seen in Star Trek IV, featuring no less than thirteen Starfleet officers.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That was a review board for disciplinary action within Starfleet. The federation council members were there because it was an intragalactic incident.
If Starfleet disciplinary hearings are directly conducted by the UFP president, that raises even more questions, and certainly doesn’t dispel the notion of a “military government”…