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Maquis: missed opportunity?

Not to the Maquis. Maybe on paper, but they felt betrayed by the Federation, their homes given up to the Cardassians as if it was nothing.
They were given a choice.
They chose to stay.
The Cardassian settlers on the Federation side of the DMZ all moved. It was explained in TNG ep. with the Shelliack that a home is a material thing that can be replaced, your lives can not. Starfleet warned the Maquis(before they were the Maquis) that the Cardassians wouldn't treat them fairly, they ignored it and still stayed.
There was bad blood between the two politically but as we saw on DS9 many of the Maquis & Starfleet Officiers were friends. Cal Hudson & Ben Sisko were still friends to spite their different views politically. They were even told they'd be welcome back into the Federation if they chose to discontinue the fighting to allow peacful negotiation. The Federation did all they could to accommodate the Maquis.

So, if your goverment comes up to you, says you need to GTFO because they plan on giving the ground your home is on to an old enemy, you just smile and say ok?
Right.......
i know you're not american, but the US government is already allowed to take your land if they deem it in the best interest of the general public. it's called "imminent domain." during the 1930s many people lost their home and land due to many public works projects like building damns and creating reservoirs. so while these peoples' land may not have been given to an enemy, they were still forced to move.

with the case of the maquis, they were at least given a choice. they chose poorly and instead taking the blame for that choice they chose to blame others for their plight.
 
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She wasn't Burns the egomaniac on Voyager because she was the hero, but she was Burns the disciplinarian.

If Chuckles was Hawkeye, remember the episode where Frank was left in Charge and hawkeye eventually mounted a coup and sedated him in the ass? It was a court-martial/flashback episode.

A likeable version of Burns, which brings us back to Potter.

Janeway follows the rules, Chakotay burns the rule book. That's who we met in the pilot. Then suddenly he's almost sending his exgirlfriend to the brig for stealing soup... Not that 6 years later in Shattered he isn't stealing wine from the ships stores or betting in a relpicator ration pool about the sex/birthdate of Miral Paris.

Wait, did I just say that Janeway wasn't an egomaniac?

What?
i'm not sure we'd agree on who in voyager was comparable to who in M*A*S*H except for one...i think we could definitely agree that the EMH is voyager's version of maj. charles emerson winchester III. :lol:
 
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They chose to stay afterwards, yes. I agree. They didn't choose to have there homes taken from them. And yes, the Federation did leave them there, they did abonden them. Very noble. I suppose to the Federation a few disgruntled settlers are not worth taking in consideration when trying to make peace. How did Lily Sloan put it in FC: where was your evolved sensebility then? Perhaps something about the needs of the many....

I understand that you feel that leaving your home behind to safe your loved ones is the better choice. When push comes to shove, perhaps I would too. But to some, a home is just as important, and for some of those some (nice play one words) the loved ones would even agree.
What was the other option?
Break the treaty and go to war again with Cardassia.
So yes, at the time relocating a small group of settlers was a better course of action than war and the deaths of thousands. The treaty was also made because Bajor had requested aid from the Federation after the Cardassian annexed it. Starfleet couldn't enter that region of space until they signed a broader treaty of non-aggression with Cardassia. A world full of starving & dying people still out weigh a few settlers who aren't. The best course of action was to abandon them.
 
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from Journeys End.
PICARD: Anthwara, I want to make absolutely sure that you understand the implications of this agreement. By giving up your status as Federation citizens, any future request you or your people make to Starfleet will go unanswered. You will be on your own and under Cardassian jurisdiction.
ANTHWARA: I understand, Captain. And we are prepared to take that risk. Will the Cardassian government honour your agreement here?
GUL EVEK: I believe I can convince them that this is an equitable solution. I cannot speak for every Cardassian you may encounter, but if you leave us alone I suspect that we will do the same. Will this be acceptable to the Starfleet Command?

The Maquis were defacto Cardassian Citizens or actually Cardassian Citizens depending on how the local government filed their paperwork.
 
You just have to watch "Stargate Universe" and be bored to death with an hour of constant bickering among the crewmembers to give Berman and his people some credit for not letting any Starfleet-Maquis conflict drag on for too long.

They never even finished SG1 and Atlantis here in the Netherlands. :(

A pity since both those series actually were good. But "Stargate Universe" is horrible.
 
She wasn't Burns the egomaniac on Voyager because she was the hero, but she was Burns the disciplinarian.

If Chuckles was Hawkeye, remember the episode where Frank was left in Charge and hawkeye eventually mounted a coup and sedated him in the ass? It was a court-martial/flashback episode.

A likeable version of Burns, which brings us back to Potter.

Janeway follows the rules, Chakotay burns the rule book. That's who we met in the pilot. Then suddenly he's almost sending his exgirlfriend to the brig for stealing soup... Not that 6 years later in Shattered he isn't stealing wine from the ships stores or betting in a relpicator ration pool about the sex/birthdate of Miral Paris.

Wait, did I just say that Janeway wasn't an egomaniac?

What?

I do agree for a leader of the Maquis Chakotay did a fast turn around to be a gung-ho Star Fleet officer.
 
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