> Hello, Charles Stephenson.
> On 11/25/20 2:50 PM you wrote:

CP>>> Is it just me, or is it really that common a thought that they
CP>>> are one and the same?
CS>> Right, Starfleet pretty much is Earth(realm). Like the 'new' NASA.
CS>> The Federation is like NATO... hundreds of planets (?)

> I was thinking more like the UN, but yes.

> On a couple of other places that I posed this question, people replied that
> it's possible that people think this because we pretty much only see things
> through Starfleet's point of view.  You see very little of normal everyday
> life.

I always thought that Starfleet was the "military" and exploring  
organization (like the Navy) and the Federation was the entire "country"  
consisting of hundreds of planets.

Regular civilian citizens are not necessarily members of starfleet, but of  
the federation.


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