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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-12 06:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #2871 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2871 ⌋

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asecretchord: John Adams has a question (Question)

[personal profile] asecretchord 2014-11-13 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Honest question: did the idea of nation-states exist at the time of the Federation of Planets? I thought Earth was united at that point so Kirk would not have considered himself to be an American, but would have studied the US Constitution as a part of Earth history.
kamino_neko: Tedd from El Goonish Shive. Drawn by Dan Shive, coloured by Kamino Neko. (Default)

[personal profile] kamino_neko 2014-11-13 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Officially, no, but it's pretty clear both in TOS and TNG (less so in DS9 and Voyager) that despite an officially united Earth (the Federation only admits united planets), the pre-unity states exist in some form or another - United Earth is probably more or less like the European Union. (The US, France, the not-currently-real-world extant United States of Africa and African Confederation have all been mentioned either in-show or in official supplementary material.)