Remember when the Cold War ended and Star Trek series had to figure out what to do with their setting and then for a series pretended that “the R2P global cop knitting together the bloody borderlands” was actually a meaningful substitute?

Voyager was kind of that too, the Maquis/Federation mixed crew was kind of riffing off the Irish and South African peaces, but then they used that to tell “explorer in the savage land” stories even more primal to American colonialism than TOS’ “Wagon Train to the Stars”.