Yeah, but imagine if they made it so the KDF subverted the process and used them as a military arm? What if the Federation was able to "liberate" them and free'd them from their programming? You could play most of the game through just like everyone else and just flavor existing missions the same way they did for Romulans.
This really makes me not want to play a character. I'd MUCH rather have the ability to skip to 60 be a choice you get prompted with (much like with the option to skip the tutorial). This would make running 90% of the missions pointless because the rewards wouldn't be applicable. Aside from getting achievements, is there…