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This work was made possible by a grant from the John D. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors. Get FAS expert analysis. Directly to your inbox. It would not surprise me if fully engaged worlds that hold a seat on the Federation Council are still rare in the TOS era. Maybe only a few dozen at most. I would expect that membership in that elite "club" would probably be determined by a society's ability to sponsor, build, maintain and man Federation-spec starships.
So Kirk may have been telling Cochrane about the 1, worlds that the Federation has at least some relationship with, even if on a minimal level. This likely includes colonies and non-aligned trading partners.
If the hearing chamber scenes on Earth during TMP4 are any indication, they likely number in the dozens. Wingsley , Nov 9, You make excellent points. Those were questions that I was wondering about as well.
Somehow, I always figured that things were organized more along system lines rather than individual planets, therefore Mars would be under the same flag as Earth. The reason I figure such would be that each "United Planet" probably had holdings within its home system before becoming Warp capable and meeting the requirements for first contact and that those holdings would be respected whenever they decided to join the UFP.
Cogley in "Court Martial," and we know that the Martian Colonies had their own flag inspired by a velvet painting of a bull fighter from DS9's "In the Cards. And in "The Could Minders" I got the impression that even though the planet Ardana was a member of the Federation, there were things going on there that the rest of the UFP wasn't really aware of or would be kosher with, thus suggesting that the nature of the UFP is much looser in TOS times that in TNG times, more like sovereign nations forming the body of the UN rather than states comprising the US.
At least since Reconstruction. If we go by that TMP4 pic you linked to, then maybe we're looking at about 30 worlds or so with full membership status and perhaps many many more worlds which operate in a limited status, only participating in specific local trading and common defense policies and so on.
I say 30 because it seems like the delegates are seated in pairs and assuming the pattern of the first rows is the same all the way up, then there are 60 persons.
Though really, there's no evidence to suggest that's really what's going on, for all we know these could just be people invited to see the trial who happened to be in San Fransisco at the time, the rest of the VIP's watching remotely. After all, in the end of the movie, Spock and Gillian Taylor get seats there too and they certainly weren't elected representatives of anything! Anyway, it's interesting to think about. So let's figure out a list of the planets that are united It's really more a list of candidates I suppose, since a lot of those worlds may well be neutral or otherwise independent of the Federation.
Nor does it really include post-TOS worlds which we know would have been known from later shows, like Trill, for instance. Or Risa. Anyway, I think this might be fun to try to pin down.
Joined: Feb 26, Also, do you count Starbases that are on planets like Starbase 11? When the production folks of TNG re-calibrated and slowed down warp speed then it would make sense to reduce the number of planets as well, IMO. You might end up having two lists. They could count all of their colonies and planets inhabited in the main system.
Ronald Held , Nov 11, Joined: Aug 26, We have witnessed several star systems that feature multiple populated planets: Rigel, Bajor, Cardassia, Earth. This might be more a rule than an exception, as a warp culture might find it trivially easy to exploit its home system's various nooks and crannies even if those did not possess abundant resources or Class M environments.
It wouldn't be at all unlikely for a culture with X major inhabited planets to be "on" 10X or 50X or even X "worlds", then, like Kirk says.
Right I'm just saying that if you read the answer from top to bottom, it appears self-contradictory, because despite the correction in the edit, the false statement is still there later on! I was wondering if you could integrate the corrections into the narrative so that everything fits together. I guess at least it would be clearer if the edit well, it's a correction , not an edit, which is kind of my point came at the end rather than the beginning.
Anyway, just some friendly feedback! Show 10 more comments. James Sheridan James Sheridan If I recall correctly, wasn't the "Nine Billion" figure from First Contact the number of Borg on the planet in the alternate timeline? No, the population figure for the Borg in the alternate timeline was a much smaller number.
I believe it was ten million off the top of my head. I've even double-checked on Memory Alpha , the Star Trek wiki, and it states that the nine billion figure was of humans in First Contact. Here's the page: en. Nope, the nine billion was the alternate timeline.
I rewatched it yesterday. Picard: Life signs? Data: Population approximately 9 billion Riker does mention to Cochrane that over 50 million people live on the moon in the 24th century, though.
That may be what you're thinking of. It does say "Earth Alternate Timeline ", but I can see the confusion that could arise there. I'll see if I can edit it. Show 1 more comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.
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