system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek ToS/TNG/VOY/DSN/ENT] Body snatching is so unbelievably common how in gods name is there not a protocol for "Hey the captain just out of the blue acted entirely out of character and threw our diplomatic mission out the window. We should really stop and take a close look at him."?
gpt
It's important to keep the missions we see on the Star Trek television shows in perspective. The ships and crews shown in them usually represent the best of the best in the Federation, with the Enterprise being the Federation's flagship that is generally only sent on the most pressing/dangerous missions. Because of this they experience unique situations at a far higher rate than your typical crew and are the ones that the protocols are written for based on their experiences. So body snatching and other wacky scenarios may seem very common from our point of view, but from the perspective of the Federation it never happens to probably 99% of their ships.