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by philwelch 978 days ago
Starfleet is supposed to be filled with the most intrinsically motivated, hard-working, determined, smartest people in the Federation. For every Starfleet officer there are probably 100 people on Earth taking it easy and enjoying their post-scarcity utopia, but some people are just not wired that way.

I mean, there's an entire TNG episode about how Picard begrudgingly takes a vacation on the tropical "pleasure planet" of Risa and is completely miserable until he gets caught up in a wacky Indiana Jones type adventure. And an entire DS9 episode where Worf goes to Risa and decides he'd rather help some nutjobs sabotage the weather control system. These are not people who like to relax!