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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6162039" data-attributes="member: 8835">That's certainly true that the triangle obsession is a silly example.  Chalk it up to my limited brain being unable to invent an alien mindset and trying to be funny.here in the real world, the closest we have is different human cultures.  The natives of the island that became New York City traded it for some beads.  They had some seriously different views on land and ownership.  That mindset cost the indigenous people of both American continents in that they did not exploit the land, expand scientific and technological advances.  As a result, though having land that had vast resources, they were ill prepared for first contact with Europeans.Somehow, Europeans had better germs than the natives, and the natives got sick.  At best, they gave Europe some STDs in return.  Trade-wise, they got the short end of the stick more often than not (trading land for beads? WTF!).  Militarily, they had good tactics (the art of war is pretty much the same, regardless of weapons), but being constrained to cave man technology where europeans had better equipment was a good setback.I would posit that by the time a Federation of Planets would form, the only remaining species are folks that kind of think the same way.  Species that value nature, don't tend to mine and build pollution generating rockets to space.  if they had, and by some fluke had no hostile experiences on their own planet, first contact with the Klingons would beat that out of them.I suspect, in ST tradition (getting us slightly back on traffic), where the Klingons and Romulans were ST's bullies, the humans were just as prone to violence, but happened to think bullying is wrong, so Earth formed the Federation, recruited all the wussy races (like our triangle loving friends) and flew around beating up bullies and returning their lunch money.So for wussy mindset aliens to survive the harshness of space, they need Team Starfleet - Space Police to keep the peace.I'd wonder if there's some psychological profile that indicates someone with bullying tendencies could redirect that to law enforcement in order to avoid "being the bad guy."  Dexter being the most extreme example (psychopath who redirects his urges onto criminals).  Anecdotally, I know police who say that's exactly why many cops join the force.  They think like bad guys, but don't want to get in trouble.So, StarFleet in ST could merely be a redirection of human violence-tendency to a good cause (beating up bad guys).</blockquote>

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