[@Blue Demon]

Typo corrected.

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Two:
The Federation is characterized as a Utopia. Most conflict comes from outside the Federation (Romulans, Klingons, etc). So when you say problems, what sort of problems are you imagining?
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The statement is to compare his utterly uneventful history, prior to the accident, to the strife and events of the Federation in general, and note that they didn't really affect him at all (due to his age). Accidents, political pressures from outside the Federation, political pressures from inside the Federation... anything and everything they used to base the story arch of an episode on.