What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Jayson Poorknees]

What do they do that is non-military?

Well on TNG their was those times Picard let a teenager who wasn't even in Starfleet pilot the ship.

 

[bdub76]

Well on TNG their was those times Picard let a teenager who wasn't even in Starfleet pilot the ship.

That's why they put families on board the ships, so when the ship gets destroyed in combat, you can take out whole family lines.

And let's send a bunch of ships with families on board to fight the Borg. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Danja]

let's send a bunch of ships with families on board to fight the Borg. What could possibly go wrong?

It's not all that different from families living on a military base.

The risk of an attack is not great, but it IS greater than zero.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It's not all that different from families living on a military base.

The Military Base is usually not mobile, or traveling into the unexplored frontiers.

Usually they are stationary, near a major populace center, has a complex defensive Onion/Network to protect the Nation State / Planet that it resides on or around.

While a StarShip is Mobile, going into the unexplored & unknown frontiers where you can encounter all sorts of dangers / surprises.
They also might deal with dangers they have never encountered and has a higher probability of perishing or disappearing vs being stationary near your Home State / Planet / Base.

There are some obvious trade offs between the two.

StarShip life is usually for when you're younger, don't have commitments to raise children in a safe / stable environments.

Whilte StarBase life would be easier on families since everybody would be in a common, well protected & regulated environment.

Plenty of IRL kids are military brats who grew up moving from one US Military Base to another.

So they know what it's like living in the town surrounding the base and going to school there.

 

[Jayson Poorknees]

Not all Starships have families on them. "Voyager" didn't have any. I think families on ships might be reserved for those ships assigned to long-term missions. "Voyager" was suppose to just go on one mission and return to base. Go capture the missing Marquis.