Star Trek: Discovery (2017) S4 E4
ct451 2 points 2 years ago*.

Oh, yeah. A whole planet wants to leave the federation and what’s gonna stop them is a clause in a treaty. How exactly is the federation going to stop them? The same way they stopped most of them leaving after the burn?

mattalica 6 points 2 years ago*.

Think Brexit… was it easy for the UK to leave the EU? Not at all. Now imagine if any country in the EU could leave on a whim without any repercussions. What if a new anti-EU, populist leader is elected and says “Hey, we’re out” — if it’s that easy, then anyone could go whenever for whatever reason. As stated in the show, if we did that then you get all the benefits of membership and all the responsibility is on us. This is the way coalitions work in the real world - the EU, NATO, UN, OPEC, etc. etc. etc. Exit clauses are never “you can leave whenever you want with no conditions” but rather “if you want to leave, there is a process for that (and it won’t be easy).