Another Lit Wish List Thread
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I don't know about the second Elite Force game, but I don't see any way to reconcile the first one set aboard Voyager with canon. I mean, Voyager wasn't that big a ship. If it had actually had some kind of special "Hazard Team" aboard it, you'd think we would've seen them from time to time. Especially if their job was to tackle particularly dangerous stuff, the sort of stuff Voyager dealt with in quite a few episodes.
I remember that there was some thought at the time that the Hazard Team was going to appear in a Voyager episode, though, now that I think about it, maybe that was just marketing spin out of Activision to give people a hook so they'd buy the game.
Where has it been stated that all Federation members must be democracies? That's a more stringent requirement than even states in the United States must meet; the Constitution merely requires a "republican form of government." For example, a state governed by a military junta would, technically, be a republic since, in poly-sci terms, a republic is a state not governed by an hereditary monarch. Even China is a republic.
I can see no reason why an anarchic state could not be a member (apart from the fact that anarchists aren't great 'joiners' !) or why a truly benevolent dictatorship would necessarily be excluded.
IDIC.
I thought in poli-sci terms a republic was a government where the people had some say in its functioning - perhaps not democratic, but they have some form of influence?
I've got no idea where this quote came from, but:
The dialogue in "Redemption II" suggests only 2-3 weeks since the first part. And Worf still seems to be early in his learning curve about Klingon behavior, such as being surprised to discover that Kurn drinks amiably with his enemies when off-duty. So I really don't think it could be months.
Elite Force 2 opened by retconning the Hazard Team into the final moments of "Endgame", when Voyager was trapped inside the Borg sphere. They beamed over to disable a dampening field which had crippled Voyager, thus playing an essential part in getting the crew home.
I guess we're to believe they were there all along, doing important things just off-camera.
You mean, like those Equinox crewmembers, or Joe Carey?
^That's different. Those characters could plausibly blend into the background, but the so-called Hazard Team was supposed to take the point on hazardous missions, and they never did in any of the hazardous missions we saw onscreen. Not to mention that they had variant uniforms that were never seen onscreen.
In the Unitede States judges are elected although the Supreme Court is appointed. In Canada, all jusges are selected by either the provincial or federal government. As a consequence, the judicial system in the US seems to be much more politcized than in Canada. Which system is better? Depends on your point of view.
In the council chamber of TVH I see two Andorians (both Starfleet), five Vulcans (counting Sarek who is also wearing the medal so he may be there in an official capacity and not just as an observer, two men seated together, two woman by themselves), 2 bald people who I would assume are Deltans, one cat like (assumed to be Caitian, also Starfleet), 2 with gold metallic masks with a blue stripe at eye level, two with the large head that look somewhat like porcelain (unlike the other races, these two aren't seated next to each other), 2 with the metallic masks with tubes out the bottom, as well as what appears to be a Tellarite and a numbe that we don't get a really good look at.
Given the presence of two or more of the various races and the large number of Starfleet I would assume that we're not seeing the actual Council but rather a smaller body, perhaps one dedicated exclusivly to Starfleet. You would have civilian and Starfleet members much like the National Security Council in the US. The actual judgement may have rested entirely with the three people on the dias along with the president. Not counting the president we would have two civilians and one Starfleet hearing the case.
That actually varies state by state. In some they're directly elected, in others they're appointed, and in still others they're appointed, but have referendum elections to determine if they keep their position every few years. The last one is supposed to be a compromise, keeping the public accountability of elections while avoiding the politicization of campaigns, but it's almost always a rubber stamp because the man on the street can hardly keep track of all the judges and all the cases they see to decide which ones he thinks are doing the right things and which ones should be kicked off the bench.
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They got separated during a battle and they had to run after Voyager.
They catched up with it before Endgame.
Retcon done.
Since the Genesis Incident was a Federation Security matter (read National Security) why couldn't those present be the Federation Security Council. IIRC, the Security Council is made up of five members.
The others present would likely be Commander, Starfleet and some of the Command Council or Security for Commander, Starfleet, and observers such as Ambassadors whose expertise might be needed to defuse tensions or whose areas of responsibility are affected.
The others present would likely be Commander, Starfleet and some of the Command Council or Security for Commander, Starfleet, and observers such as Ambassadors whose expertise might be needed to defuse tensions or whose areas of responsibility are affected.
^Plausible. The Security Council, like the other councils, would be a subset of the whole council (like US congressional committees), so some of the group there woudl've been councillors. But it does make sense that the people in Starfleet uniforms would not have been members of the Council.
One of them was probably the Starfleet advisor/liaison to the Federation President, one of the civilians perhaps the Secretary of Defense, and Federation Security itself. Also, since time travel had been involved, a bureaucrat from the DTI?
