Well, the ones in Paradise actually crashed there instead of intentionally colonizing it.
Starfleet, The Federation and civilian space exploration
- Thread starter Brannigan
- Start date
True - Starfleet had them logged as heading to a different planet. Given the problems with the life-support were likely faked since as part of the scheme to get them onto the actual planet and then set up the interference field, it's doubtful Starfleet was ever sent a distress call. So, when the colony ship didn't arrive at their logged destination and there was no distress call, they might have assumed a disaster and loss of all hands - probably sent a ship to search, but space is big if you don't have anything to go on... and the interference specifically stopped sensors picking up the colony unless you were close by.
Now what this says about Starfleet's ability to monitor for unauthorised colonies is arguable - the interference explicitly prevented the colonists from having comms tech or power sources that Starfleet might otherwise easily spot on long-range sensors. Most colonists wouldn't want to forego modern luxuries just to stay off Starfleet's radar.
In TNG's The Defector, there are issues with long-range detection of a Romulan planetary base, but then that's the Romulans - an unauthorised colony might have a few tricks to hide from long-range sensors (the Maquis knew a few ways) but not the resources of things like cloaks.
Now what this says about Starfleet's ability to monitor for unauthorised colonies is arguable - the interference explicitly prevented the colonists from having comms tech or power sources that Starfleet might otherwise easily spot on long-range sensors. Most colonists wouldn't want to forego modern luxuries just to stay off Starfleet's radar.
In TNG's The Defector, there are issues with long-range detection of a Romulan planetary base, but then that's the Romulans - an unauthorised colony might have a few tricks to hide from long-range sensors (the Maquis knew a few ways) but not the resources of things like cloaks.
Not always. Remember the 55MPH speed law? To cut a long story short, nobody obeyed it, hence the lack of gasoline conservation - official reports showed a 1 to 2% drop in consumption (suggesting not only the possibility of most people still speeding 10+ as passenger cars need 10 to 15% more gas to sustain 65MPH but also in that dense city rush hour traffic wouldn't make a dent in its usage as well as x number of people don't use highways or are by and large stuck in them depending on time of day.)
None of which necessarily applies to how the "evolved," "we work to better ourselves" humans of the 24th century would observe the laws of their time. Kids are probably indoctrinated from an early age about how heinous an act it is to interfere with the development of other cultures.
Humans don't indoctrinate very well. If we did we'd all think the same.
On the other hand we can be intimidated and forced into doing things as a group.
Is that's what happening in the future?
Clearly the Rozhenko's were terrible parents.
However, advanced cultures (including planetwide ones, with billions of folks, not just mere colonies) generally aren't spotted at long ranges. They are discovered by entering orbit.
Why this might be is a nice topic for speculation. Supposedly it ties in to why all efforts at SETI have failed so far (in this Trek reality where we know the failure can't be for the lack of ETI), and will keep on failing until 2063. Perhaps signals from far away just plain can't penetrate into Sol, or into or out of any star systems, because of the star's duonetic noise or tri-isophasic buffer zone or whatnot? Or is it just that since the Trek galaxy is so full of life, everybody either stays vewy vewy quiet, or is basically instantaneously visited by aliens and then stays dead quiet?
In practice, all colonies in Trek are invisible. Kirk and Picard alike either stumble onto those without detecting anything from afar, or then know well in advance whether there is a colony there, supposedly from records. And of the full homeworlds, only a single example of "detecting" comes to mind: Picard detected Rubicun in "Justice" while colonizing a neighboring (or "adjoining") system.
Timo Saloniemi
Helena even learned how to cook Klingon food, so they can't be all bad! 
srsly, the Rozhenkos did not strike me as bad parents. Not by a long shot. Worf and Nikolai both turned out well. I'd say Sergey and Helena raised them just fine!
srsly, the Rozhenkos did not strike me as bad parents. Not by a long shot. Worf and Nikolai both turned out well. I'd say Sergey and Helena raised them just fine!
Yes, I'd agree. I'm just speaking from the standard of the Fed's policy of non-interference.Helena even learned how to cook Klingon food, so they can't be all bad!
srsly, the Rozhenkos did not strike me as bad parents. Not by a long shot. Worf and Nikolai both turned out well. I'd say Sergey and Helena raised them just fine!
