The Federation needs to examine your logs; this is an official request.

The Federation needed to learn so much about these people.

If so, the Federation would need to know its location.

The Federation needs people to push out its frontiers and put down way-stations.

We need the supplies you have brought us, and the Federation needs Thiopa.

"The Federation needs time to gain strength, to take firm root, before it is severely tested."

The Federation needs that very unique power, especially the way things have been going in the galaxy.

True, the Federation still needed to be turned from its reckless expansion.

Would he lose the edge that the Federation might someday need in this sector?

It's been fairly obvious for some time that the Federation needs a change at the top.