I'd be tempted to say 1/4 of the population are Trekkies, not 1/3. (We've established that 2/5 of the population are Generalists, Neutrals, and Fendanes, after all, and there are a lot of Minor Factions listed in the FenWiki.)
We've put notes about Starfleet's early difficulty in mass-producing anything larger than a Shuttlecraft into the descriptions of the Gagarin, Starclipper, and Archer class ships - those should be reflected and expanded upon here. Somewhere.
Relations with other factions:
For the first few years of the Convention, the UFP put their most inflexible and dogmatic civil servants into their diplomatic corps. While this was true-to-canon (at least for the original series), it did cause a few issues when they attempted to negotiate with other factions' representatives - the Tomed Incident being the worst and most-publicized. This state of affairs was corrected before the Boskone War, but the stereotype of the "aloof, self-righteous, idiot Federation ambassador" remains strong in certain circles even into the early-2020s.
Economy:
"We don't need money!"
"Then you don't need mine."
- Jake Sisko and Nog, Deep Space Nine (anybody remember the episode title? It's the one where Jake wanted to buy an antique for his father)
The majority of the UFP are attempting to implement a socialist society without currency of any sort. A subfaction (mostly original-series Fen who remember how many credits a tribble cost) reject this and continue to use the Solar Credit when doing business with the rest of the Convention.
Edit: After a night's sleep, my brain is working better... It's the Terra member-state that's rejecting the socialist economy, since they still need to deal directly with the 'Danelaw (and, to a lesser extent, stations Clarke County, Genaros, Meetpoint, and Stellvia).
(Not much of a contribution to start with, but I have to log off now...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
We've put notes about Starfleet's early difficulty in mass-producing anything larger than a Shuttlecraft into the descriptions of the Gagarin, Starclipper, and Archer class ships - those should be reflected and expanded upon here. Somewhere.
Relations with other factions:
For the first few years of the Convention, the UFP put their most inflexible and dogmatic civil servants into their diplomatic corps. While this was true-to-canon (at least for the original series), it did cause a few issues when they attempted to negotiate with other factions' representatives - the Tomed Incident being the worst and most-publicized. This state of affairs was corrected before the Boskone War, but the stereotype of the "aloof, self-righteous, idiot Federation ambassador" remains strong in certain circles even into the early-2020s.
Economy:
"We don't need money!"
"Then you don't need mine."
- Jake Sisko and Nog, Deep Space Nine (anybody remember the episode title? It's the one where Jake wanted to buy an antique for his father)
The majority of the UFP are attempting to implement a socialist society without currency of any sort. A subfaction (mostly original-series Fen who remember how many credits a tribble cost) reject this and continue to use the Solar Credit when doing business with the rest of the Convention.
Edit: After a night's sleep, my brain is working better... It's the Terra member-state that's rejecting the socialist economy, since they still need to deal directly with the 'Danelaw (and, to a lesser extent, stations Clarke County, Genaros, Meetpoint, and Stellvia).
(Not much of a contribution to start with, but I have to log off now...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012