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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:58:45 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-02-11 02:57:50 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:26:44 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Except Starfleet is not actually a military organisation ...   
   >>   
   >> What a load of codswallop.   
   >   
   >     "Starfleet is a paramilitary organisation. That is to say a   
   >      civilian peacekeeping, exploration and science organisation   
   >      that uses military structure. They are not a purely military   
   >      force, though they have some military duties."   
   >   
   >     "Starfleet is neither wholly civilian, nor a military in the   
   >      conventional sense. They are in fact best described as a peace   
   >      keeping force."   
      
   An organization where everybody is an officer, and there are no   
   enlisted personnel!   
      
   “Not a purely military force”, yet they go around in fully-armed   
   warships. If that’s the kind of deadly force they have access to, I   
   wonder what the *actual* “military force” in that universe is like?   
      
   What about all those times they went into battle against Romulans and   
   Klingons and the Borg and who-knows-what-else? Did they ever get   
   backup from a separate “proper” military force?   
      
   Nope. They were it. They *are* the “proper” military force. No ifs or   
   buts, no more hemming and hawing about it.   
      
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