Subj : The Federation
To   : Charles Stephenson
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Nov 25 2020 16:15:49

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. 

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