Not on the TV shows, no...
CONTEST ENTRY - Jellico's Warship
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Not on the TV shows, no...
No, Starfleet doesn't slaughter people in self-defense, but they do defend Federation citizens and their property when they're attacked. They'll fire to disable, at first, and to take prisoners, but if their hand is forced, Starfleet is willing and capable of using lethal force to settle the matter. How hard Starfleet fights (and how violently) is typically decided by the actions of the aggressor in the equation.
Some would think Starfleet might even have specialized ships and crews for just such eventualities, more defense-minded officers whose duties allow the explorers and diplomats to fulfill their own more noble tasks unmolested.
The U.S. has been a little better than the empires that preceded us as well. Unlike any of our predecessors, we make a concerted effort to limit civilian casualties and do not deliberately target non-combatants and very rarely civilian infrastructure. That and the Marshall Plan was the foundation of Pax Americana - it reaches far beyond our shores and allows people to live in peace and relative freedom from the Russia's western borders to the eastern and southern borders of China. We're hardly angels, but we're not salting the wells and the fields or feeding people to the lions for sport.
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Maybe the empire that follows us will improve things even further.
I’ve always wondered how the Federation would handle a civil war within its ranks.
They kinda already have. The Maquis.
The Maquis are more an outlaw group, and their fight is with the Cardassians. The Federation are only opposing them because they don't want a renewed war with the Cardies in question.
An actual civil war, it's hard to say. We don't know what the Federation charter says about worlds leaving it. The United States, it's kind of a blood pact. You join, it's forever. But maybe if a world (or group of them) wants out of the Federation, they can leave, under certain conditions.
CeJay published that story at one point in his Star Eagle Adventures series: Quantum Divergence - Civil War.
I thought this was a great what if? tale. And not completely implausible.
Also, I felt the rendering of Jellico was pretty spot on, and I say that as someone who's written his fair share of Jellico.
Although we all know the Dominion isn't so easily deterred. They'd be back, of course.
But at least this would have bought the Alpha Quadrant some additional breathing room.
Good work!
Also, I felt the rendering of Jellico was pretty spot on, and I say that as someone who's written his fair share of Jellico.
Although we all know the Dominion isn't so easily deterred. They'd be back, of course.
But at least this would have bought the Alpha Quadrant some additional breathing room.
Good work!
Thanks. He's not that hard to write: straightforward, no-nonsense, but once his ship is the way he likes it, people can work with him. I figured he and Riker would have eventually been able to work together... but Riker would not have been motivated to stymie his own career to remain under him. In a strange sense, Jellico remaining would have done Riker considerable good.
Yes, and I tried to make it so that the next step (the events of "The Search") went more or less the same way.
The Dominion's original plan was to invade, I think, but they were stymied by the knowledge that Sisko would just collapse the wormhole if they did. Ergo, they had to find a way to block it open before they could begin expanding into the Alpha Quadrant. As happened, I believe it was "In Purgatory's Shadow". Not sure, though; I need to get on with my rewatch!
Assuming Riker could get off the Enterprise without incurring insubordination charges.
True. I had it happen here, but it's by no means a sure thing.
I enjoyed the story. I'm not one of the faithful 'Gene's vision' fan club (he believed his own college lecture circuit hype) since this vision seems to forget the TOS era of the franchsie and assumes the whole franchise should be TNG plus plus. In times of war Starfleet needed the Kirks, the Jellicos and the Sisko to lead. If Picard was in charge of DS9 the UFP would have lost the war unless he changed his tactics.
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