Are there any good reasons to not want to be in the Federation?

[Mudd]

Why does anyone need the Federation?

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[The Wormhole]

That seemed like "world under construction" inconsistency. Like the fact that so few people seemed to know that Bajoran names feature family name first, individual name second. Even though the practice was near universal, and there are human cultures that do the same.

That whole episode is just really clunky with how it provides its exposition. They need to establish these details about Bajoran names and the significance of the earrings, unfortunately, they can't pull it off in a naturalistic way.

The whole thing with the names really irritates me. No one blinks with aliens who only have one name, but a race with two names who places the family name first is some weird concept they have to abandon to fit in with the rest of the galaxy. Yeah, no, that makes no sense at all. Although, TNG also had trouble with the concept of someone having one name, as Data's personnel file lists his full name as "NFN NMN Data." Those letters are supposed to mean "No First Name, No Middle Name." Though to be fair, Star Trek generally isn't too imaginative when it comes to its aliens anyway.

 

[kkt]

I thought they were consistent about Bajoran family name first, in DS9 and the TNG episode that introduced the Bajorans. When there were characters who got it wrong, they were generally newly arrived who might not have read the briefing.