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Maquis and Starfleet Story ideas

Dingo

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Just planning on writing another fanfic about the Maquis/Starfleet plotline of the early first season on Voyager. It'll involve two original characters I've come up with. A Starfleet lieutenant (Deborah Kinnian) and a Maquis lieutenant j.g. (former Starfleet Search and Rescue operative Carl Stevens).

Their backstory is somewhat explained by my story Star Trek: Voyager - The Guardian.

I figure I'm gonna play with the Maquis/Starfleet storyline a little more. Stevens is a longtime friend of Deborah and in re-cultivating that friendship he alienates himself from some of the more hardline Maquis. I wonder if that would be plausible as a way that some of the other Maquis view Stevens as somewhat untrustworthy.

Given his actions in the fic the Guardian (he risked his own neck in the New Grozny battle to try and save Deborah when she was shot down behind enemy lines) I imagine that he might be a somewhat controvertial fellow amongst the Maquis. I wonder if this would be the case. I imagine because he helped a Starfleet officer escape the Cardassians other Maquis would be suspicious of him when they wind up on Voyager.
 
I wasn't a huge DS9 watcher, so I'm no expert on the nuances of the Maquis, but I never got the sense from the Maquis that their feelings about Starfleet went much beyond disrespect and/or strong resentment. I can't imagine that they would want to see anyone NOT escape the Cardassians, including Starfleet personnel. Am I wrong about this? They just didn't seem that sadistic to me ... more like frustrated and angry. Sure, they'll throw down with Starfleet when the Federation gets in the way of their objectives, but surely they don't want to see the Cardassians defeating Starfleet?
 
They don't in my storyline but I figure that there is a continuum of Maquis feelings toward Starfleet.

I imagine that some Maquis cells might use a Starfleet hostage as a way to barter the release of comrades (I'm writing that theme in the Guardian fic which is a prologue to this story).
 
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