Why is Starfleet primarily run by humans flying ships with Earth-based names despite the Federation being made up of over 180 member worlds?
Either all the other species are being marginalized and repressed or they're all a bunch of lazy, freeloading welfare queens contributing absolutely fuck all to the advancement of the Federation!
Either way, all signs point to the UFP being a DYSFUNCTIONAL SHITHOLE.
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I think Starfleet uses mostly different races in different areas. Like the Starfleet ships around Vulcan would be mostly Vulcans. Since The Enterprise(s) were the flagship and Starfleet was formed on Earth we mostly see the human angle.
Also they needed to keep the costume and makeups budgets under control.
because the star trek show was created in a world that had been almost entirely organized and built by middle class, white, heterosexual, conservative christian males, and the show wouldn't have made any sense if it had been presented in some other context
in other words, you would be incorrect if you assumed there's some racism or specieism involved
if the goal of the show was to introduce a galaxy of absolute and demonstrable egalitarianism, it would have to begin at the truth, 'de facto,' as it existed on this planet at the time the show was made
The "different ships for different sectors" argument would have more weight if we ever actually saw any non-Starfleet Federation ships that weren't just shuttles. Even during the Dominion War when the fate of the quadrant was on the line, only Starfleet ever showed up to fight for the Federation.
Probably at least in part because of tv budgets.
You have to find the logical middle ground here man.
Enterprise establishes that humans smell really badly. Other species have their own ships due to human inferiority, not human supremacy.
The USS T'kumbra showed up in season 7 with an all-Vulcan crew.
Non-human ships are a part of Starfleet, just not the main focus of the show.
humans don't value their lives, it's just that simple
humans and a couple of other races are the only ones stupid enough to run around the galaxy in those flimsy ships where the slightest nudge makes beams crash through the ceiling in a shower of sparks, killing the cute ensign.
everyone else stays on their home planet and laughs.
starfleet is supposed to just be humanity's contribution to the federation. Not seeing many non-human federation ships in TOS is understandable, but TNG and DS9 onward completely blew it with all their war sequences and ship designs. mostly because they felt they needed a unified aesthetic for "the good guys." and they were too lazy to design a large number of unique alien ships.
>they're all a bunch of lazy, freeloading welfare queens contributing absolutely fuck all to the advancement of the Federation!
Probably that
>NATO exists to protect from Russia
>Russia is not a threat anymore according to /pol/ and alt-righters
>REE WHY AREN'T PEOPLE SPENDING MORE AKA BUYING OVERPRICED AMERICAN CRAP!!
>ALSO WHY AREN'T THEY SPENDING LIKE A UNION OF 50 STATES WITH THE GREATEST MILITARY INDUSTRY COMPLEX
Tell me how you feel about that chart. Some say the amount of money is all out of proportion, you should use the money for welfare, or housing, or whatever.
To me, it's a little like people complaining that NASA spends too much money "in space".
I mean, the defense industry is mostly local, right? There isn't an entity called "defense" outside the United States that you pay to be defended.
tl;dr I don't get it.
I didn't like how we never really saw Earth outside of the Starfleet HQ establishing shots. It could've been interesting to see how Earth is in the future, what people do with their lives, etc.
The Federation is nothing more than a homo sapiens only club.
The Klingons actually point this out first. Not that they are any better with the empire being nausicans, gorn and lyran. All low tech scavenger races from TOS era
Star Trek humans are literally nietzschean super men and are as alien to modern humans as actual aliens. There was a paradigm shift in how humanity as a whole thought and acted.
They're at a point where humans are free to pick an interest and just run with it; they dedicate themselves to self improvement.
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Go get a sex change from doctor bashir faggot
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yeah but if we reduce our military spending Israel will be upset and our senators & reps will lose loads of funding. and the psycho christcucks need israel for the rapture.
>UK only member meeting the agreed 2% defense spend
Why vote for a 2% budget then not meet it? Fucking retards. The Borg don't have this problem
because economies change with time and those countries may have the need to spend money on other things instead?
aaaah the game's afoot
>lyran
Non-canon shit is not canon.
Gorn and Nausicans are also not members of the Klingon Empire, and Nausicans are not from the TOS era.
The left doesn't understand what diversity means
It's primordially because humans are one of the most successful species in the Alpha and Beta quadrants along with the Klingons, the Vulcans, the Orions, the Ferengis, the Bajorans, the Troyians, the Coridans, the Cardassians, the Bolians, the Barzans, the Andorians who share their world with the Aenars (a subspecies... kind of like if we lived with a prehistoric ancestor who would have evolved like we did... can you imagine the conflicts?), the Ramatisians, the Kriosians, the Iconian (extinct), the Ardanans, the Acamarians and the Parthas (vegetable intelligent lifeform who would logically fail the aptitude test at Starfleet because reasons).
All of those species only have 1 home world or less and a population way under 9 billions. Humans have surpassed this number because of the amount of colony ships and space port that are inhabited all over the fucking universe.
tldr; Humans are the best at reproducing and not killing themselves or getting killed by other.
t. David Mack
You and your augment virus...
come now user do we not hear the chimes at midnight?
PetaQ.
Because we are calling the shots in this galaxy
Alps this, you can pretty much live out a prefect life never leaving your planet in a post scarify world
You forgot the Tellarites, the Breens, the Arcadians, the Ariolos, the Bzzit Khahts, the Caitians, the Deltans, the Grazerites, the Kasheetas, the Xelatians, the Zaranites (dont show this species to your wife... you will lose her for sure... don't say I didn't warn you!), the Algolians, the Benzites, the Betazoid, the Efrosians, the Haliians, the Ktarians, the Hekarans, the Peliar Zel natives, the Rigellians, the Risians, the Ithenites, the Loktarans, the Makusians, and the Violaceans… did I miss any?
Not to mention the tiniest vibration sends you flying out of your seat (which has no seat belt, of course) and snaps your skinny neck.
Human crews and Earth-named ships are the overwhelming majority.
You could saved a lot of time just by saying "it's more HFY wank."
Give me a list of every ship in every fleet of Starfleet so that we can confirm this.
The Federation has a lot of tolerance for insider xenophobia, ships tend to be dominated by a species with a few others.
In DS9 and TOS there were Vulcan only, or Vulcan dominated ships.
There's more to the federation than starfleet, so some species may be less interested in that. Maybe the Tellarites are generally more drawn to politics, industry. The andorians who get into starfleet are less interest in exploring.
We just happen to focus mostly on the human ships because we are humans.
You could even say that one species tends to dominate certain ships because they are safe spaces for that species. But it isn't segregation because its voluntary.
Surprised France is below 2%, but I guess that amount is still plenty to project force around the world.
No they're not.
It's listed by total expenditure.
Look down the list and you see Poland, Greece and Estonia meeting 2%.
That's 2017.
In 2018 UK is down to 1.8%.
And France up to 2.3%
I can think of four episodes where we see other parts of earth: Family (TNG), Non Sequitur (Voyager), and Homefront/Paradise Lost (DS9). But they all show a pretty conventional Earth.