I never understood why they didn't come to an arrangement with the Baku where, like, the Federation gets to access one continent of the Planet That Heals Everything And Is Only Inhabited By A Few Hundred People, and in exchange protect it from the many bad guys in space.
Mark PagliaThe Starfleet admiral in "Star Trek: Insurrection" who thinks that the smug aliens who get to live forever because their planet heals everything should maybe share a little of that.