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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 919925" data-attributes="member: 710">Just some notes:I can´t remember everything about the Bashir Incident, but maybe it was a Starfleet Officer that handled the case because it also was a Starfleet Officer who was more or less the subject of the case?Citizien can have Replicators. Picards brother complained that his wife wanted to get one - he thought the replicated meals wouldn`t taste as well as home-made ones.According to Startrek 8, Starfleet does not use money. Maybe noone is worried that he is in disadvantage, even when he worked an hour longer than his neighbour, but still has the same replicator meal and the same kind of flat than his neighbour.(Remember, Startrek is an optimistic Universe, an Utopia, that is meant to show us what we might be able to achieve, if we just take the right path.)It seems as if most unpleasant jobs that nobody would ever want to do are gone (be it because they are no longer needed, or that they are automated, or that now some people like these jobs) and so, everybody can do what he likes. Or, maybe, people who do these jobs don`t have to do them as long as today, and have more free time to do their own thing.Picards Brother probably grows his grapes because he really likes the job, and he does not sell it, but just gives it away, so Federation citizens all over the world (and galaxy) can get it, if they want. (Or they can`t, and it is only locally available, and sometimes used in exchange for other products that are needed, like dilithium crystals or high-resistant-rice-plants)Is is possible that the Starfleet does take the job of the interstellar police within the Federation, since it is costly (even without money, they still need resources for their ship) to have two, independent, space-faring organization. There are no police officers following a bank robber (which, naturally, they don`t have without money) from Earth to Epsilon Eridani. And if they have problems with Organized Crime, these guys probably have armed starships, so Starfleet is far better suited to fill the job.Anyway, there seems to be a local kind of police: Wasn`t the guy that tries to save the Crushers from the "plasma-sex-ghost" a policeman on that colony?Not many people seem to own starships, but this might only prove that building and maintaining these ships is to costly and needs to much personal that everyone does have its own.Instead, they use transports that travel within the Federation (even non-Federation worlds have it, like the shuttles that move between Bajor and DS9 - they probably cost some latinum, but the infra-structure is existant.)The Starfleet blackouts do not mean anything, since it can just be some kind of collection from official source. Or Starfleet just does also make these reports for their own officers.We know that Jake wrote some articles for a civilian organization.Finally, you should not forget: We are seeing the Startrek Universe mostly from Starfleet View. Believe me, military organiziations can seem very independent, and if you are in it, and don`t get out sometimes, you never see more than other soldiers (and, regarding the police question: Most military organizations have also a Military Police...)Mustrum Ridcully</blockquote>

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