Fair point! I didn't live through the Cold War, so I can't speak to how that situation affects a culture or those within it, but I have my suspicions of certain areas where I think it's left scars on the cultural mentalities, so to speak, of nations who were principally involved. I may be totally off-target, of course. But I guess that's the point. Maybe someone like me could never quite understand.
I wonder if the Eminiar naming convention was established prior to the war or if they've developed to be even more orderly and conformist in accordance with the requirements of the treaty? Are the various numerical incidences of a name living simultaneously? Do they even share an identity to minimalize the sense of loss? That might be interesting. Mea 3 might die, but there are still several Mea remaining, so it softens the blow.
Seven of Nine would have traced the conspiracy back to Eminiar eventually.
Also, the incident is mentioned in A Time for War/A Time for Peace, I think, in which Scotty essentially says that it was the most difficult order he'd ever grasped with, that he "nearly fell out of his chair". I'll have to have a look later and confirm.
