That could probably be divined from the context, though.
If the President were to travel on a starship, one would expect "Starfleet One" to be the callsign rather than the name of the ship if we heard it used as identification in communications, rather than casually mentioned by people professionally unrelated to the President's travels, or by the narrating voice. Does the use of "Paris One" fall in one or the other of the above categories?
Timo Saloniemi
In
Articles of the Federation -- written before KRAD created
Paris One -- President Bacco travels aboard the
U.S.S. Venture, and there is never any indication given that the
Venture assumes a different name or callsign.
Of course, there's no indication that it does
not, either.
Memory Beta, while not being 100% perfect, indicates that Paris One is a non-Starfleet "dedicated presidential transport".
I wrote that entry, and I based it on a comment KRAD made on this board clarifying that
Paris One was a non-Starfleet ship dedicated to presidential transport.
Interestingly, though, if we're wondering why the
Venture was used to transport the President to Koa at the end of
Articles instead of
Paris One,
A Singular Destiny establishes that
Paris One had been disabled by an ion storm in June of 2380, during the Borg Supercube Crisis depicted in
TNG: Before Dishonor, which is why the Council tried to handle that crisis by itself and the President never appeared. Perhaps
Paris One was still being repaired in late 2380 when Koa was admitted to the Federation?
Articles of the Federation has a scene where a journalist muses on the fact that the Palais de la Concorde's Council Chambers is the same room where 22nd Century President ...
I suppose it possible that the government is in a newer building, newer structure, but that the entire council chamber itself was physically moved to the new location for historical reasons.
I don't buy it. I think it's pretty clear that the Palais was standing by the late 22nd Century.
A problem I have with the quote I pulled from Sci's post is the Federation started with a half dozen members in the 22nd century, by the 24th century and the movie FC they had over 150 members, and they're meeting in the same council chamber? The US House of Representatives no longer meets in their original chamber in the US capital building, the chamber was too small.
Yeah, and obviously the Federation plans ahead a bit better!
Another possibility is that the Chamber, and the Palais in general, have both been
expanded since their construction. It's not like it's all that hard to make a room bigger, and with 22nd/23rd/24th Century technology, I can't imagine it's that hard to add floors to a building, either. And, indeed,
Articles makes mention of the need to periodically add new rows of chairs for new Federation Councillors.
It is especially weird when you consider that the original Federation Council would have had four members! Each of them must have held three cabinet positions!
No, you're misremembering things. In the novels, the Federation has a separate Cabinet which consists of persons appointed to run the executive departments; those Cabinet Members are
not Federation Councillors. Now, the President and Cabinet Members work closely with the chairs and members of the relevant Federation Council committees, but those Councillors are not actually Cabinet members.
And the early Federation Council would have had
five members: A Federation Councillor from United Earth, the Confederacy of Vulcan, the Andorian Empire, the United Planets of Tellar, and Alpha Centauri, presided over by the first Federation President. Given this Council's size, I would infer that it would probably have done much of the work later handled by sub-councils as a
committee of the whole.
The Federation President can name whoever they want to their Cabinet, from what I've read.
I don't recall any mention of confirmation hearings, apart from the President appointing members of the Council to be Chairs of the various subcomittees, though.
The process by which Cabinet Members are appointed is unestablished. But we have never seen a Cabinet Member who was also a Federation Councillor, which strongly implies that they cannot hold both offices. A novel might come along and contradict this later on, but that seems improbable.
