Signing up to Starfleet means you're forever alone?

[Tenacity]

Based on the three movies, I see nothing to indicate there were families aboard the Enterprise E.

At the same time, nothing was said in the movies about the Enterprise E being "family free." It was common that episodes set aboard the Enterprise D showed no families, that didn't mean they weren't on board.

Even escape pods would be preferable to taking those kids into a probably suicidal battle with the Borg.

Jake Sisko could have been an unusual exception, and the majority of civilians could have been evacuated from the fleet while the ships were well short of Wolf-359.

I found it rather pathetic the Gang of Six from TOS, except for Bones who was divorced but stayed single, spent their fertile, adult years following Kirk around.

Sulu sired a daughter.

ITA its completely ruthless, and illogical ...

Hundreds of family members, vs billions on Earth. Ruthless in a way yes, but how do you see it as "illogical?"

Or, perhaps by then, with a galactic human population in/approaching the trillions, people have moved past the idea that breeding is necessarily an essential part of life for absolutely everyone?

Even if people decide to have no children, how would you explain no marriages?

 

[Paul Weaver]

Or if they can't go out of their way and have no other option, just drop their saucers and boogie to Wolf 359.

Of course the saucer section was instrumental in the capture of Locutus and thus the ending of the borg threat. Had Riker left it behind Earth (and the saucer section) would have been assimilated.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Of course the saucer section was instrumental in the capture of Locutus and thus the ending of the borg threat. Had Riker left it behind Earth (and the saucer section) would have been assimilated.

There were plenty of saucers at Wolf 359. A lot of good they did.

Actually it was the shuttlecraft that was the more the key. The saucer was just a diversion.

More precisely, it was the extraction of a single particular drone that proved essential, as it turned out that the whole Cube had a critical weakness that could be exploited through Locutus. Riker didn't even know that at the time; he just wanted to rescue Picard. Even Shelby hadn't figured out that rescuing Picard might lead to the Cube's defeat. With all their saucers, shuttlecraft, and stardrive sections, it's really doubtful that Hanson, or anyone else in his fleet, figured it out either. They had a different priority than rescuing a single officer: stopping the Cube.

However, if Hanson had figured it out in time, he still would have had plenty of ships, saucers, and other sections to make whatever diversions they would need to get something inside the Borg's electromagnetic field to transport a landing party -- sorry, away team -- to and from the Cube. We know that, because Riker did all that with a single ship.

Strategy, not saucers, was the key.

 

[Voth commando1]

Indeed the Borg can be out thought and out maneuvered-Voyager often did that(with luck and the Borg's indifference playing a role as well).

 

[USS Triumphant]

Even if people decide to have no children, how would you explain no marriages?

I don't. McCoy and his ex, Robert Tomlinson and Angela Martine, Spock and T'Pring, Jack and Beverly Crusher, Miles and Keiko O'Brien, Tom Paris and Kes, Benjamin and Jennifer Sisko, Riker and Troi, Worf and Troi, Benjamin Sisko and Kassidy Yates, Jean-Luc and Beverly Picard, Worf and Jadzia, Tom and B'elanna, Tuvok and T'Pel, Geordi and Leah, even The Doctor and Lana, and probably some others I'm not thinking of - there's significant representation of marriage in the franchise. Perhaps not as much as there would be in a contemporary setting, but maybe that reflects extended lifespans and also what I referred to earlier about people making life choices that don't involve long term romantic relationships. (Maybe there's a lot of occasional non-committed sex going on that nobody talks about because it isn't as much of an issue by then, given improvements in disease prevention/cure and birth control, too?)

 

[GabyBee]

There's also Sulu, his husband Ben, and their daughter (possibly Kelvin-verse Demora) from Star Trek: Beyond.