What about localized problems within the boundaries of each Federation member?

To offer a welfare service to Federation members.

Unless the ship changes direction, at least a dozen worlds lie directly in its path, three of them Federation members.

Given her office, the death of any Federation member should be personal--but this was someone she had known and respected.

And I doubt that only Federation members will be interested.

There are those who say that Starfleet cannot protect the Federation members.

In addition, former Federation members felt marginalized by the students' insistence on maintaining the purity of the movement.

We would prefer such a close neighbor to be a fellow Federation member.

"The same thing can be said of a number of other worlds that are Federation members in good standing."

The new Federation members grinned widely, in a most unmachinelike manner.