Why is the Federation leaving so many dead bodies in space or on random planets? I get on some level that it’s a parallel to naval rituals with space being like the ocean. But it’s kinda odd how it happens. Like in Wrath of Khan they left Spock’s body on Genesis rather than taking it home to Vulcan. I was watching a TNG episode where Data meets his “grandfather” who inspired Noonian Soong’s work and it makes no sense. The guy spends basically his whole life in isolation on a particular planet. He dies there on the planet and rather than bury him on the planet? They take him up to the Enterprise, put him in a photon torpedo case and beam him into space. How does that make sense? Does a Galaxy class starship not have a morgue to keep him in to bring him back to earth? Or some other storage space? Pretty much all the shows do some variation of this. Voyager it kinda makes sense since they’re 70 thousand light years from home.…