My favourite "writer dodge" about Star Trek is that almost nobody, not in sixty @#$$#@ing years, ever asked them what life was like back home. How DOES work and school and all that work in the Federation?
One economist, Manu Saadia, wrote a book, "Trekonomics" about the what an economy would be like with no money, every object replicated. He asked.
They said they had no idea. It was, ummm...the kind of culture that would send out those starships! There, buddy - done.