- Gentlemen. Ambassador Sarek is quite correct when he points out this is not the council chamber of Babel. I’m fully aware that the admission of Coridan is a highly debatable issue, but you won’t solve it here.

I always think it’s an interesting choice that the four founding species of the Federation aren’t depicted as having much in common or even liking each other very much.  The humans are the Jimmy-come-latelies with the others having been spacefaring powers for much longer, but on the other hand they’re so dynamic and busy and curious that they can’t be dismissed, they just have to be dealt with.  The Klingons and the Romulans may be outright enemies, but apart from having decided they have enough common interests for a strong alliance, the Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites are not all that FRIENDLY either.  It’s not as Utopian and cuddly as the Federation is often pictured as being.

Johnny-come-latelies that stood toe-to-toe with the Romulans and somehow won, somehow convinced two former warring races (Andorians and Vulcans) that hey, working together should be good, and let’s have a good verbal spat race with us and uh, as the fifth founding member, how about Alpha Centauri a human colony because why not?? And then, on top of all that let’s have all the headquarters for the Federation and Starfleet be on Earth and hhave a good chunk of the officers be human.