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The Federation Naval Service or whatnot from VOY timeframe is probably not tasked with military duties. There's plenty of peaceful stuff for a Wet Navy to do - the oceans are not a natural environment for humanoids, so population density there will always be low, and thus there's a need for a "service" or a "force" that goes from place to place to troubleshoot and carries the necessary hardware along. (This service need not be limited to Earth, really, but could span all Federation planets that have partial water cover.)
In the ENT timeframe, we now learn that an old family tradition required the kids to join the Royal Navy, up until Malcolm Reed's generation. But this is not solid proof that the Royal Navy still exists - perhaps it has recently been disbanded, and the family just thinks that there are better successor candidates to it than Starfleet?
The "Royal" part would be something of an affront to the supposed United Earth ideals, unless the royalty was completely stripped of governing power. Umm, was this the UK RN, or perhaps its Australian equivalent? Australia is said to have been a holdback in this unification business, and might have perpetuated a RN (and would have changed into a monarchy in this theory - perhaps King William IX of the UK escaped there when the Vulcans came and deposed/executed all the other royals and local leaders on Earth in favor of their more democratic model?).
Anyway, it seems likely IMHO that this Royal Navy was a traditional military organization till the very end, unlike the FNS.
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It was, IIRC, the Federation Naval Patrol. And does anyone seriously believe the Brits giving up their Royal Navy for a united government ? They don't even want to go with "the continent", much less the entire world.
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The UK would probably not have a royal navy at that point in time... remember the European Hegemony
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For all we know, it could have been absorbed into the Unified European Naval Response Force when Grandpa Reed was 25.
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? They don't even want to go with "the continent", much less the entire world.![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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