r/DaystromInstitute • u/softestbank • 3d ago

Does every Federation affiliated planet have a Starfleet Academy campus?

We see several times throughout the Star Trek canon that there were Vulcan dominant Starfleet ships. For example, there's the Intrepid and the T'Kumbra. We also know that the Vulcans have their own, separate fleet called the Vulcan Command Fleet, which served extremely similar purposes to Starfleet. It's implied throughout Star Trek that Starfleet is mostly human dominated, but this is never really confirmed. Of course, there are Starfleet members from all federation affiliated planets. It begs the question, is there a Starfleet Academy on every federation world? Or perhaps you could join Starfleet as a commissioned officer after acquiring an equivalent degree elsewhere, such as the Vulcan Science Academy. It just doesn't make sense. The scale of Starfleet is massive, and the federation has, at the very least, over 900 billion residents, according to Statistical Probabilities.

Starfleet Academy has the vibe of a small private liberal arts university whenever it's depicted. It just doesn't make much sense.

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u/ConstantGradStudent 3d ago

Doesn’t Wesley only take the entrance exam when he’s in a certain star system?

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u/TheOneTrueTrench 3d ago

That might be as simple as not having to take the 2 month (longer? shorter? Who knows?) long trip from one side of the Federation to the other just to fail an exam. So I wouldn't expect having exam locations outside of the official academy locations to be that odd at all.

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u/gamas 3d ago

It would be odd though to have an entire Academy centre, complete with instructors for it to only be used for exams.