I'm reminded a bit of David Brin's rant about how Star Trek is a more democratic, and thus more modern and superior, setting to Star Wars - conveniently ignoring how in place of princesses and anointed god-kings doing the important stuff, we have the senior officers of ships named Enterprise, which is usually the Only Ship in the Quadrant. The rest of Starfleet is just there to send distress calls, die, or be pompous and bureaucratic from HQ. Six of one...