Future Federation wars

[Admiral_Young]

I disagree with the Klingons. As much as I do not think they would be a high threat level they would still pose a threat. The did dissolve the Kitomher Accords afterall because of philosophical differences. Just because they're close allies doesn't mean that we can discount them as a threat.

 

[Non-Beard Riker]

Perhaps the Cardassian Union was occupied by the UFP, Romulans and Klingons (think WW2, Germany) and after the decline of their empire the Romulans left their area and some sort of conflict between the Federation and the Klingons arose which lead in a seperation of the union, one half is closely allied to the Federation (perhaps even a member), the other one is a Klingon puppet state.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I don't think so. Cardassia Prime was receiving aid from the Federation in an effort to help rebuild their world's resources which were severely depleted after the war. The Romulans and Klingons would probably have no interest in occupying the planet or any other Union world.

 

[BolianAuthor]

The Sheliak.

Just because nobody else mentioned it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The Sheliak generally avoids contact with the Federation like the plague. They went over 100 years steering well-clear of the Federation until the Tau Cygna V incident in that TNG episode.

As long as the Federation doesn't bother them, they won't bother the Federation...

 

[BolianAuthor]

Doesn't mean the Federation can't somehow end up drawn into a war that the Sheliak started with another galactic power.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Then the war would be with that other galactic power, rather than with the Sheliak themselves.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Okay then.

 

[Satyrquaze]

I don't think so. Cardassia Prime was receiving aid from the Federation in an effort to help rebuild their world's resources which were severely depleted after the war. The Romulans and Klingons would probably have no interest in occupying the planet or any other Union world.

Not that Cardassia Prime was very resource strong to begin with...

 

[Admiral_Young]

^True. The reason they aligned themselves with the Dominion in the first place was because they were seeking the Dominion's vast resources.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

The Borg - They are what they are. High probability of attack. In fact, why haven't they attacked yet? Did they get lost and forget how to get to the Alpha Quadrant?

I've imagined that they gave up on long-distance small scale attacks, and are waiting till they've assimilated up to the Fed's doorstep. No reason for them to hurry. The Federation might not see them again for a long, long, while.

 

[Maxillius]

Those parasite things that crawl in through the mouth? Those were pretty nasty and can have the side effect of causing a civil war.

Or perhaps the species that sent the doomsday machine into the Milky Way?

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Those parasite things that crawl in through the mouth? Those were pretty nasty and can have the side effect of causing a civil war.

We never saw them again and never will. They're as good as retconned.

Or perhaps the species that sent the doomsday machine into the Milky Way?

They're dead, Jim.

 

[DonIago]

Non-canonically the parasites do show up again.

 

[Tarek71]

I would want human enemies who know exactly what the Federation is, and nevertheless want to destroy it, conquer it, etc. I dont want a human enemy who is only an enemy because they have mistaken ideas about the Federation. That if only they knew the truth, they wouldnt go to war. Or humans who have had their minds taken over by aliens.

It could be a political ideology or a religious fundamentalism. There are different ways to go about, but let it be nothing that involves some easily clarified misunderstanding or something that removes all moral responsibility, like alien mind control, etc.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Awww, but forcing the writers to deal with moral responsibility would make it too hard on them.

 

[indolover]

The Dominion - the Bajor Treaty is just a piece of paper. Odo may not convince all of his people that solids are not all evil.

Klingons - knowing how they think and their value system, any people that fights honourably beside them is a valuable ally. Something drastic would have to happen to undermine the alliance.

Romulans - The Empire is weakened after Romulus is destroyed, but that is just the capital planet, not the entire species' domain. They may even ask the Federation for help, but the Federation must hope and pray that the Romulans never find out about Sisko's deception.

The Borg - the nature of the beast means they'll come back. In what form is the key question.

Cardassians - I don't think they'll change as a species. they lost millions of people in the Dominion War, but they only joined the Dominion when the Klingons kicked their arse (and engineered by the Founders). IMO, it's Cardassians nature to be ruthless, cold and authoritarian. Once they recover, old Cardassia will be back.

Delta Quadrant species - None are a credible threat, bar perhaps the Voth and obviously the Borg. The Kazon had to rely on Seska (somebody who knew of Alpha Quadrant politics) to capture Voyager, and the Hirogen probably only captured Voyager as the Voyager was outnumbered. Intrepid class vessels are not tactical ships, I doubt the Hirogen could stand up to a Galaxy, Sovereign or Defiant class vessel.

 

[doublegoodprole]

Let's see.

Say I'm a human born in the year 2364 (Season 1 TNG). By 2386--only twenty-two years later--I have experienced enough interstellar war and intrigue to last three lifetimes.

Let me have at least a few years of peace...or better yet, move your date up a couple centuries.

In the year 2712, the Federation has expanded to include the entire Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The Founders, having decided to depart the galaxy, dissolved the Dominion in 2491. Since the invention of the De-Assimilator Field in 2544, the Borg have become a minor threat and play no role in galactic politics. With the Gamma and Delta Quadrants a mass of squabbling, ineffectual polities, the galaxy is now at the mercy of the Federation.

It comes as a great surprise when the Intergalactic Alliance makes first contact with the myriad species of the Milky Way. Far from being hostile, they are in fact extremely friendly and willing to share their technology (which is far beyond the best the Federation has to offer). With no concept of the Prime Directive, they offer membership to all species regardless of technological or social development. They do not attack unless attacked, and even then they do not kill--preferring instead to beam enemy combatants across vast distances to "prison planets" where lives must be rebuilt from scratch.

Within a century, the great majority of the Gamma and Delta Quadrants has joined the Intergalactic Alliance. The Federation jealously guards its sovereignty, which the IA scrupulously respects.

But when a prominent Federation member world votes to secede and join the IA in 2807, the Federation Council denies tha legality of secession and dispatches Starfleet vessels to quell the "rebellion."

That's all I have.

 

[DonIago]

I can't see the Federation that we're familiar with taking such steps to prevent a planet from seceding from the Federation, but the emphasis is, of course, on, "that we're familiar with."

 

[MichaelDornFan]

I could see the Breen, maybe.

Maybe the Romulans, if they're like Nero and blame the Federation for the destruction of their home planet (depends on how many of them are left, I guess).

Borg appeared pretty dead at the end of Voyager.

Maquis were exterminated by the Dominion in DS9?

Jem'Hadar do what the changelings say?