Is Starfleet a military organization?
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I suspect that term is used by people who really don't know what a court martial is. At least based on one time in one of the other threads on this matter when that was brought up someone asked "is a Starfleet court marital like a military court martial or a civilian court martial?"
By the 24th century you had, despite being after the Borg attack, Kira thinking and saying she thought Starfleet "doesn't believe in warships" aside from the Defiant, it seems that Starfleet had overwhelmingly changed both its impression and its actual functioning.
Again, ranks, uniforms, carrying and using weapons and internal discipline (and references to non-members as civilians) are also in police departments.
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Picard even in that scene did seem to actually be meaning that it is not primarily a military organization, he did throughout the show acknowledge that Starfleet had the right and duty to defend the Federation. But it's a very unusual type of military, not like what we understand today, where superiors would merely request that a ship captain engage in combat training, where officers are genuinely surprised that they would have to engage in combat.
That was post Wolf-359 and Ben Sisko lead the R&D on the Defiant Class since he lost his wife to "The Borg".
And the fact that it didn't go into full production until the middle of the Dominion War shows you how much StarFleet was holding back on producing a "WarShip".
It's not like Utopia Planetia didn't have the designs to mass produce the "Defiant Class" & Benjamin Sisko & Chief O'Brien figured out the issues to the OverPowered Warp Core problems LONG before the Start of the Dominion War.
And Geordi La Forge & Chief O'Brien can't be the only good Engineers in the fleet, there has to be hundreds to thousands of solid Engineers that could've figured it out long before Ben Sisko request the Defiant Class and made it work.
i think i recall problems with an engine too big for so small a ship that still needed figuring out and the defiant prototype being pressed into service as a desparate meassure in desperate times
... otoh we all know that starfleet admirals are a bunch of morons who can't find their own asses with both hands, enough light and two orderlies to help them
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I think it's the latter
That could just be a way of saying they don't believe in single-purpose warships that can't also handle the exploration and scientific mission in peacetime.
And again, police departments don't place their officers under a separate legal system that is different from the one that everyone else falls under.
Given the destruction of the Odyssey and Ben Sisko's awesome presentation skills, the Defiant was given to him because it was sitting in a mothball setting with the Starfleet brass saying why not.
What police department uses weapons of mass destruction, and has police captains who can order their use?
SISKO: Officially, it's classified as an escort vessel. Unofficially, the Defiant's a warship. Nothing more, nothing less.
That could be the attitude for our topic as well: Officially, SF is not a military, but unofficially, it is.
Also, wasn't the Defiant the first warship SF ever built? What kind of military takes 200 years to build its first warship? Are real-world military ships all warships?
That could be the attitude for our topic as well: Officially, SF is not a military, but unofficially, it is.
Also, wasn't the Defiant the first warship SF ever built? What kind of military takes 200 years to build its first warship? Are real-world military ships all warships?
Which is just stupid. Anybody who doesn't think an escort is a warship should sit down and watch The Cruel Sea or The Enemy Below. Two-thirds of British/Commonwealth naval casualties in WW2 were in escort vessels.
i guess what is said about the connie in axanar is kinda non-canon?
Sure. A fully armed ship of peace.
I doubt it.
they said so
As this thread illustrates lots of things are said.
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