Whatever, man. That just makes them Maquis, and I would still rather work with them (or the Maquis for that matter) than against them. You can keep the moral high ground while I get actual work done.
If you were in charge of a Trek reboot, what ten things would you change?
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While I agree that S31 could be deemed a criminal organisation (assuming that Sloane is correct that it has no official sanction), and they certainly appear to take criminal actions with impuny, they cannot be a terrorist organisation because by definition such an organisation seeks to inspire terror (fear) as a means to an end, which S31 as a secret organisation cannot do.
Are Sisko and Garek terrorists? From the prospective of the Romulans yes, if the Romulan every figure out what they did.
Is Kirk a terrorist? Entered the Romulan Empire without permission, boarded a Romulan ship without permission and stole a valuable piece of Romulan military equipment.
The command crew of the Enterprise in TUC? Entered the Klingon Empire without permission and assisted in the escape of two legally convicted criminals.
Is Kirk a terrorist? Entered the Romulan Empire without permission, boarded a Romulan ship without permission and stole a valuable piece of Romulan military equipment.
The command crew of the Enterprise in TUC? Entered the Klingon Empire without permission and assisted in the escape of two legally convicted criminals.
You don't seem to understand the definition of the word terrorism. As the poster above noted, terrorism is something very specific. It's intentionally indiscriminate violence - arguably only against civilian targets - with the intention of terrorizing a population in order to achieve a concrete goal - usually a policy-related goal, such as the withdrawal of troops from a given location.
The Maquis were terrorists, as was the Bajoran underground.
Sisko arguably engaged in one terrorist act - the use of biogenic weapons against a Maquis colony, poisoning the atmosphere for humans. However, this is a grey area, since the Maquis themselves were a terrorist group, and it's arguable there were no "civilians" in the Maquis even if there were noncombatants.
Garak never engaged in terrorism, except arguably in the end run when he helped the Cardassian Liberation Front. Though there were no noncombatant Jem'Hadar, and it was a period of active warfare, thus again it's a gray area.
The actions of Kirk and co you mentioned are clearly not terrorism under any reasonable definition of the term.
Wow, how does one even come up with ten things to change without crippling the structure of what is Star Trek? I personally think to take away transporters would be awful. 'Beam me up' (Scotty) became part of the language of its day and beyond. Those anxious moments when they need to get back to the ship and all those pixelating blurs of light in their columns ready to regroup as a being... you don't get cooler than that! Like fairy dust 
I'd possibly change the focus on one ship and have two - equal time. I thought Discovery was going to do that but it didn't really. There's nothing wrong with a humanoid Captain but to have another non-humanoid one would be fine.
Adding to the crew throughout their travels should be done more often. Voyager sort of did it with the Borg children and with the Equinox crew but sometimes in episodes the 'bit' player or the featured one on such and such a planet look like they could be more.
So struggling to find anything 'core' I would change.
I'd possibly change the focus on one ship and have two - equal time. I thought Discovery was going to do that but it didn't really. There's nothing wrong with a humanoid Captain but to have another non-humanoid one would be fine.
Adding to the crew throughout their travels should be done more often. Voyager sort of did it with the Borg children and with the Equinox crew but sometimes in episodes the 'bit' player or the featured one on such and such a planet look like they could be more.
So struggling to find anything 'core' I would change.
For "realism" in addition to adding new crew members, crew members should occasionally leave. Other than being killed off.
Janice Rand left the Enterprise and we didn't see her again for years. Chekov was added. Beverly left and came back. Pulaski was added and left. I thought it might have been interesting if the Enterprise D received a new chief medical officer at the start of every season. Riker should have left after a few years for his own command, the character effectively disappearing.
Problem with that is if a actor is good, and the character resonates with the audience, TPTB would want to keep them.
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