Answer by occamsrazorithink for Why are there no lawyers on the Enterprise-D?
Because the Starfleet Academy graduates are lawyersThis is a strange conclusion, but it is logically necessitated by the events of the TNG episode "The Drumhead", when Admiral Satie and her...
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Part of the answer is that starships (even in the TNG era) are generally near a starbase so that if there were some need for a JAG you could go there and have your issue adjudicated. From The Measure...
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In our Earthly world, there are no new civilizations to encounter, so the field of law, however diverse, is bounded. Those who practice law operate within those existing bounded and defined frameworks...
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Honestly the real answer is plot convenience.But the in-universe answer would be that legal practice is just not that hard anymore.I don't mean this in the sense that all the laws have been simplified...
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Throughout Star Trek, legal and quasi-legal proceedings from court martials to arbitration (see the TNG episode "Devil's Due") use members of the crew as lawyers. Obviously, in real life, this is...
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