Like, how do the Picards get to keep their bigass vineyard? Do they supply the public with free terrible wine in exchange for this massive piece of land? Can anyone walk around there? Could they pick some grapes for themselves? Who is tending this vineyard, surely not just his weird brother, and especially so, who's tending it after they die in generations? How did Sisko'a dad get the restaurant property? Sure there's technically limitless space cause you can go live on some colony, but those always seem to be weird semi agrarian weirdos or a single town with a staircase that leads no where in the center. I demand to know how the federation does real estate!
Good ass post. Of course if you're on the wrong side of a renegotiated boarder after a war with cardassia you're still fucked according to starfleet and I'm pretty sure I can cite episodes to dig some holes in this, it is how I hope things go down and how I generally will choose to believe is how trek works