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If they commited to the "ALIAS" TV show formula but set in in a UFP time frame, that would've worked.

That was a successful TV show by JJ Abrams and it worked.

The only difference is that SD-6 was the bad guy organization pretending to be good and Section 31 would be portrayed as the Anti-Hero Organization with it's operatives out in the field doing similar things.

But they made a cheap Mission Impossible wanna-be movie that wasn't well executed.

And the results show.
 
Jennifer Garner's claim to fame. I never cared for watching it, but it did have a respectable run of many seasons.
 
Even diplomacy can fall into the purview of militaries, since soldiers are in many instances the ones at negotiating tables to end wars.
It seems pretty clear to me that
1. Starfleet is a military (among other things), and
2. Starfleet really, really, really doesn’t want to be called a military, and so its PR doesn’t present it as one. That’s why every time there’s a war, there’s some character reacting with disbelieving shock that good lord, we’re supposed to be explorers! It’s hard to imagine people like Brad Boimler wanting to be in Starfleet if they thought of it as a military.

You could say this is “Peace is our profession!” taken to extremes.
 
Just how America always runs from the idea we're an imperial power or at one point had a small colonial empire becase, well, AMERICA DOESN'T DO THAT STUFF BECAUSE FREEDOM OR SOMETHING AND THE REVOLUTION, but we clearly have been and starting with 1867 and continuing until today we've had an outlying community of territories we run and which lack many of the same legal rights that states have.

But no, we don't "have any kind of empire" in the same way Starfleet "isn't a military." ;)
 
If anyone wants to see a really great spy show, I recommend The Americans.

It seems pretty clear to me that
1. Starfleet is a military (among other things), and
2. Starfleet really, really, really doesn’t want to be called a military, and so its PR doesn’t present it as one. That’s why every time there’s a war, there’s some character reacting with disbelieving shock that good lord, we’re supposed to be explorers! It’s hard to imagine people like Brad Boimler wanting to be in Starfleet if they thought of it as a military.

You could say this is “Peace is our profession!” taken to extremes.
100% agreed.
 
Because I don’t need my Paramount+ bill to go up because they continue to waste money on dog shit shows and movies.
Then they shouldn't have wasted their time making Halo TV series if they weren't going to follow the games / novels
They literally thought they were going to make a Video Game Adaptation better by ignoring core parts of the game/novels and bring them "Hollywood Flashiness" and failed miserably.
 
I actually moved on. Trying to figure out what @Kamen Rider Blade thinks Star Trek actually is? Why he wants to change things yet seems to be afraid to change things.

A Trek show without Starfleet and more about interesting characters and science would be a good thing, from my POV.
a West Wing or Single Female Lawyer, or maybe one about a burgeoning colony world
 
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