If Star Trek’s Federation Contracted With 21st Century CEOs

The Final Frontier would be a very different place to work

The resemblance is uncanny. Credit: Ferengi by Marcin Wichary, , Musk By NORAD Public Affairs; Bezos by Van Ha. (Musk & Bezos images public domain) Whole image arranged by author.

I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage.

— Korax;

It has long been a cinematic trope that the — the United Federation of Planets’ — was the only vessel available to handle some intergalactic crisis, often while it was understaffed or critical (to the plot) features just weren’t working right. The opening scene of the first TNG movie, , was possibly the quintessential example.

But plot mechanisms involving an Enterprise-with-a-limp aside, imagine if the Federation’s fleet was built by and under contract with the companies of today’s CEOs. The lives of the crews on the Final Frontier would be very different even during the most mundane of times.

Cue the opening…