Stated bluntly? Surely you jest. Which episode? The closest I can recall is when Sisko, in an emotionally charged rant called it a “paradise” compared to the frontier. But that’s far from describing it as Utopia. And even then, that’s just Earth. Not the entire Federation.
Stated bluntly? Surely you jest. Which episode? The closest I can recall is when Sisko, in an emotionally charged rant called it a “paradise” compared to the frontier. But that’s far from describing it as Utopia. And even then, that’s just Earth. Not the entire Federation.
The Maquis Episode 1.
Technically it is paradise, but it feels equivalent enough.