Um, the entire Orion plotline disagrees. Armies are very much a thing, because ortillery is not reliably able to take out ground troops without destroying what you wanted to seize in the first plance.
Earthlike planets at or near carrying capacity seem to be homeworlds, and only homeworlds.
Assuming that the buffers are some kind of machine, they presumably have some kind of practical requirement (computing power, electricity, physical space). You'd have to build a system to store millions in a pattern buffer, and it would have to be reliable or you'd come out of your interstellar voyage with millions of sick or crippled infantrymen on your hands. It might well be more practical and a lot simpler/cheaper to just build a bunch of really big troopships.
It may also be that while there is a large population, the key industries and so on are concentrated in a few very large "company town" megacities. Controlling the megacities confers power over the rest of the planet. Unless, of course, you don't have popular support on the rest of the planet... but that wasn't a problem for either the Syndicate or the government forces, at the times they staged their respective offensives.
You should see the Klingon Version of Rugby. Now that is one Gentlemanly sport!In Klingon baseball, hitting a home run (with the fences moved back outward to account for Klingon strength) entitles you to take multiple bases if you so choose, and you can singlehandedly score a point for your team in this way- if you can manage to win three duels in succession.
They sing songs about the baseball warriors who accomplish this feat.
On the other hand, with the absurd transportation and telecommuting abilities Star Trek tech brings, there's no reason whatsoever for a preexisting settlement to dry up. So I'd expect there to be a lot of small/medium towns because once you're hooked up to the network/transit background you're within reasonable commuting distance of anywhere on the planet, and probably anywhere in the planet's gravity well.
I don't think United Earth humans have actually become that kind of anti-violent. The existence of a game like Parrises squares (however it works) in the TNG era suggests that no one actually has a problem with the idea of violent sports.
Yes; you can live anywhere you want, so there's no reason to be unpleasantly crowded- but there's also no reason to live in a tiny isolated community that is only accessible in a timely manner using supersonic flying cars
The other popular Vulcan sport is Fantasy.
Personally, I think that they would survive due to advances in safety equipment.
Ah. I think we're agreeing and not realizing it. I'm from Baltimore, so my definition of small/medium town is probably large town or suburb to people who aren't from a metropolitan area bigger than many countries.
