Reed's? I buy it at my local grocery store here in Phoenix AZ.
Quark's root beer analogy of the Federation
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NATO is great, but it is just a defensive alliance. There's a pledge of mutual defence, some degree of training together, some effort to purchase compatible military equipment, but they don't regulate trade or do much to provide disaster relief.
Yes, Reed's widely available at grocery stores here in Seattle as well.
I meant "What happened to Canada Dry"? Once upon a time, it tasted fine.
The Federation in Journey to Babel was obviously VERY loosely knit. The individual members seemed to retain far more of their sovereignty (to say nothing of opinions and suspicions of the other members) than in later Star Trek. Given that the Enterprise had to run around and play taxi they didn't even seem to be a permanent standing body.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a defensive alliance, not a sovereign state possessing its own discrete territory, its own constitution guaranteeing certain rights and liberties and imposing certain functionalities on its government, its own government, its own codified body of law to which all persons within its territory are subject, its own system of courts, or any of the other traits that make up a sovereign state. Every North Atlantic Treaty Organization Member State has a representative on the North Atlantic Council. And most importantly, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization possesses no sovereignty over its Member States -- unlike the Federation, whose Supreme Court we learned in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?" has the power of judicial review over the laws of all Federation worlds, including Earth's ban on genetic engineering.
Synthehol made root beer obsolete.
Did a consensus emerge?
Me neither but strangely I like it with scoops of ice cream.
If the Federation didn't, somebody else would have.
Who and why, though?
The alpha quadrant powers (except for the Federation) don't seem that altruistic, so some self-interest probably has to be involved. At the beginning of DS9, Bajor is devastated, wrung dry of resources, and the wormhole hasn't been discovered yet. The Bajoran side of the story may be that they liberated Bajor under their own resistive power; the Cardassian side (which we hear less) may be that it was no longer economically profitable to maintain the occupation so the decision was made to abandon the planet. So no economic advantages are to be expected in the short term. The only reason could have been to gain a strategic foothold near to Cardassian space, which seems a bit of a 2nd rate power anyways, compared to Klingons, Federation, Romulans.
Okay. I'm not a fan of sweet carbonated sodas in general, but root beer to me doesn't seem any worse than Coca Cola or Pepsi products. I do actually like a root beer float, maybe every other year or so.
*HEAVY COUGH*Federation*HEAVY COUGH*
I’m British and like it, admittedly I don’t know any other people that do.
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