Karl Marx said Religion is the opiate of the masses - and the Federation might well have used it as a means of control (Cygnus Alpha writ large)

Besides activities might well have been different in the Inner Worlds and the Outer Worlds (as distinct from marginalised planets - eg Horizon & Cephalon)

Jacqui

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