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A Starfleet Captain commands the wealth of nations. I don't think it's fair to say Billionaires Don't Exist so much as to say the liberal ideal Meritocracy is made manifest.
Being entrusted with large amounts of resources is very different from owning large amounts of resources.
I didn't watch Picard. How did Geordie end up with the Enterprise?
Paramount wanted to make a shit ton of money off a property they owned, so they fucked around with established continuity to give it more mass appeal.
He's the caretaker of the federation fleet museum. Basically a cushy retirement job for a guy who has a family and didn't want to get shot at any more. He's probably the only cast member that acts like an adult in Picard. 😆
So they could have undocked an historical fleet and only took their favorite ship? Seems like a tactical oversight.....
Giordi has spent like 20 years putting it back together from pieces after it was destroyed, and it was still the most powerful ship in that museum by a long shot. The Galaxy class was still in active service in Picard.
Fair enough. Would have been nice to see some Nebulas and Mirandas be used as harrying vessels.
I had forgotten it got destroyed in Generations. Poor Beverly.
I’m in charge of $600 million+ worth of hardware at my job. This does not grant me monetary agency over the value of that hardware.
Commands, as in "has the responsibility for".
Not "owns and can do whatever the fuck they want with it and be a dumbass asshole to everyone"
Various Star Fleet officers have periodically violated Federation rules and guidelines to achieve some ideological goal or moral imperative that cuts across the fleet's stated mission. Like with anything there's limits - Starfleet has its own police, crews can mutiny, eventually you run out of dilithium to gas up your warp drive so you can't go rogue forever. But for a deep space galaxy class vessel, they're regularly stuck making their own decisions under a military autocracy.
The Starfleet Admiralty Problem is a chronic plotline in the series, with admirals routinely engaged in all sorts of corrupt practices and villainous endeavors. Every captain from Kirk to Freeman has to deal with their share of higher ranking officers fucking around and being dumb assholes. Hell, Kirk himself is demoted from Admiral to Captain for going rogue in The Voyage Home.
Yes this is called individual freedom. And people are apt to serve their own interests occasionally. The overall point is that there are consequences to those actions. And every one of those rogue admirals discovered what those consequences were. None of them got off scot-free to ride off into the distance with their ill-gotten gains.
That's why we need Wobblies from Space