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Originally Posted by Monahammer
But it's not just for a lot of things, it's a catch all for pretty much everything to do with interstellar relations and force. That means it is the only real functional organ of the federation council. And since most of Starfleet reports into a self selected chain of command with only a tenuous link at top to the elected council...
I don't know, doesn't seem like much of a democracy to me. Add to this the perceived difficulty in joining starfleet at all and the Federation presents as a sort of philosopher-king model of governance.
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They're the only organ that we see. But yeah, it's a limitation of all the shows choosing to echo that element from TOS all though out.