To keep the number of characters in the core cast to a reasonable size.
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You can still see the remnants of trying to address the "realism" issue with things like Riker existing at all. Writing in an XO was supposed to divide responsibilities; keep the captain on the ship to make choices and put the XO on away missions to karate chop Klingons. However if that had been stuck to rigidly, Picard would never be written into many exciting situations.
MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant, but the show kept finding things for him to do.
MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant
Not really. It would relieve Malcolm of his security role, but he was still tactical officer. A lot of naval ships had marines on board to serve security roles while weapons maintenance and operation would be performed by a different group of naval officers and seamen.
Because it's an entertaining television show...
"No, you should totally go on this one, captain. Take the XO too. We'll be fine. We're all far too busy, uh, reversing the polarity of the deflector dish, and we definitely deleted the template for Romulan ale from the replicators for good this time. Also the transporter is on the fritz so you should probably take a shuttle, and then stay down there and see the sights to make it worth it."
None of the events on the show are real, it's all the bridge crew fucking around in the holodeck pretending to be in Starfleet
Remember that in a post-scarcity society, the currency is glory and prestige.
How this is related ? Please explain more
Now you can judge someone's social status by whether they drive a luxury car, if they live in a mansion, or how many employees work for them. In a post-scarcity society, people who want high status have to earn it. By going down to unexplored planets themselves, the bridge crew get to claim any new discoveries as their own. People all over the galaxy will hear about who made first contact with a new civilization.
Because we all know that a sergeant and soldiers can't even hit a starship from 10 meters. Yes, Stormtroopers, I'm talking about you. What, this is what community again?
Ooo tee deee!
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Because the crew sees itself as researchers, scientists and diplomats. There is no reason to have a hazard team. We can assume that the encounters we see on screen are only the unusual ones...
Think of it like this — they often send other crew teams, we just don’t see those episodes very often.