#“Oh so now you're a tax-dodger as well as an illegal eugenics project? Is there anything else you'd like to admit to?”

[nostalgia-tblr]

oh shit now i'm thinking those thoughts about how the Federation is definitely a liberal democracy even though we never see elections or the run-up to elections and nobody votes for anything ever and there's a president and some sort of coucil/cabinet(?) but seemingly no other elected representatives below that so apparently every decision is made at at least a planetary level and nobody ever writes to a minor official about the bins not being emptied last Tuesday and Jake Sisko gets a job as a journalist but there's no other indication of a free press or even an unfree press and like i know this isn't the focus and we're just supposed to accept that Obviously the Federation is a functioning democracy because they're the good guys so they must be but is it too much to ask for Harry Kim to mention in passing that it's a good thing he got that postal vote in before they left because even if he never finds out who won that election at least he knows it wasn't his fault?