can we assume that the Romulan Free State is already a Federation member in 2401?
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I see no reason to assume that. They could simply be flags representing each species of cadet who has, at one time or another, attended.
The production team have stated that the flags on display represent every student from that particular graduating class, but not all of them are Federation members.
Worf and Martok achieved great victories and rose to prominence in the Klingon culture. It stands to reason that their pro-Federation views were embraced by at least some of their young fellow Klingons, who went on to attend the Academy. Particularly, I would imagine some of the socially lower-ranked families would see Starfleet as a better chance to move up in the ranks. Martok seemed to have gotten where he did only through extreme effort and luck.
The flags represent where some of the students came from, they don't indicate federation worlds.
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No, we cannot. As @Tuskin38 states they represent these cadet's home worlds, not Federation members.
It means that any particular class doesn't have representatives from more than a dozen or so worlds.
I had not considered the idea that classes at the Academy would be less than the full set of cadets that enters at the same time. That kind of makes sense. Given the number of ships and number of officers we've seen throughout all the Trek series, except for the 32nd century, the Academy would have to have thousands of officers graduate every year, if not hundreds of thousands or more.
It's like at the Air Force Academy, 4000 cadets are broken up into 40 squadrons of about 100 cadets each.
It seems extremely improbable. While the Romulan Free State is clearly less xenophobic than the old Star Empire -- there's no way the Star Empire would have shared scientific findings at the Borg Artifact with anyone else the way the Free State willingly shared information with the Federation -- it also clearly still has problems with sentient rights abuses (given the Tal Shiar's behavior). Even if they wanted to join, which I doubt, they would almost certainly not be allowed to become a Federation Member State.
Plus, y'know, what everyone else said.
Around 200 worlds, uncounted colonies and starbases, people from non-member worlds allowed to apply with the sponsorship of a command level officer...not every one will be represented in every class.
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