The level of pushback you're receiving to this honestly makes me weep for the society we find ourselves in.

I grew up expecting the future would be much like what Captain Jean-Luc Picard described in First Contact: "The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."

Somehow, that vision of the future seems farther away than ever. We're actively becoming LESS Federation, more Ferengi. That's not a world which holds any appeal for me.

I also got quite a few upvotes and agreeable comments. So it's not all black :)

Remember that in Star Trek, before the starfleet, there was the eugenics war/third world war/great war. Maybe we could skip that one.