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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 9579409" data-attributes="member: 40176">Well yeah, just like not every episode is a vacation episode, or a comedy episode, or a medical drama episode. They're generalist shows. The point is, there are enough such examples to indicate that the Federation - and even Starfleet itself - is not a crime-free zone, and that if you did want to dedicate a whole show to the subject, it would not lack for material.Not to that great an extent. Sure, on a starship you can ask the computer exactly where anyone is (not that there seems to be any lack of ways around that for a dedicated criminal), but that's not necessarily the case outside of <s>military</s>exploratory and humanitarian vessels, and even where it is, there aren't exactly cameras in every corridor showing exactly what everyone's doing.A major theme of the Federation is exploring and settling new worlds, expanding frontiers. It's the first four words of the show's original mission statement. A Star Trek show would, if anything, be more at home there than on the more long-settled worlds of the Federation.</blockquote>