[JenB]

There was a TNG episode with a race of really stupid aliens, do you recall them? That, and the Ferengi, are like what the Federation would think about Hobbits.

However it's interesting to imagine Picard dealing with Elves. Whose face would freeze fastest?

[Overtaxed]

Which stupid aliens? The stupid ones or the stupid-stupid ones? :)

[Overtaxed]

After TOS, it just seemed like the Federation looked down their noses at anyone who wasn't part of the Federation....a bunch of control freaks!