What Kirk, Picard, and the others never tell you is that the UFP is a communist empire in which all the best jobs go to the submissive, servile, and obedient. The empire doesn't even use money except for dealing with caricatures like the Ferengi. Of course, it's considered gauche to mention the prison planets where dissidents are sent for compassionate instruction in Federation values.
What Kirk, Picard, and the others never tell you is that the UFP is a communist empire in which all the best jobs go to the submissive, servile, and obedient. The empire doesn't even use money except for dealing with caricatures like the Ferengi. Of course, it's considered gauche to mention the prison planets where dissidents are sent for compassionate instruction in Federation values.
What Kirk, Picard, and the others never tell you is that the UFP is a communist empire in which all the best jobs go to the submissive, servile, and obedient. The empire doesn't even use money except for dealing with caricatures like the Ferengi. Of course, it's considered gauche to mention the prison planets where dissidents are sent for compassionate instruction in Federation values.