Since the dawn of Trek, there's one thing about Trek fans that has remained consistent. We organize! At the drop of a hat! (any hat)
From Starfleet to the International Federation of Trekkers to the Klingon Diplomatic Corps to a dozen other "in character" and out organizations, we do tend to come together.
So I began to muse on the current split between the fans of NuTrek and...those who are not so thrilled with it. How long will it be before the disgruntled or dissatisfied start joining together, for comfort if nothing else, in opposition to the Abomination? What form will the Resistance take?
(We all know that the resistance to the NuTrek Dominion will begin on Earth...and most mentally unstable Augments agree that it will eventually end in victory. Really. oh stop laughing.)
A number of possibilities come to mind:
THE MAQUIS: My personal favorite and the best reflection of the situation at hand. (from the Trekrpgnet forum)
The Powers That Be make a policy decision that caters to traditional enemies at the expense of those who have served the Cause for their entire careers. Their decision leaves those who disagree with it out in the cold, in hostile territory, with no back up or rescue in sight. The outraged and baffled former loyalists see the current policy as a violation of everything The Cause has been about since the beginning. Unable to accept this betrayal, unwilling to just submit to their new masters and to the enemies all around them, they band together to wage a covert war of resistance, or sheer survival, because that is the only way they can preserve their identities as loyalists to a cause that has abandoned them, and keep their own vision of the dream alive.
hmm.
Welcome to the Maquis, boys!
I say we arm those old courier ships and take it to the Cardie bastards!
And don't trust that Tuvok guy. I have a "feeling" about him.
...
...
mind you. I don't think this ends very well for us, now that I think about it...
sigh.
THE REDSHIRTS: Well. The studio thinks we're expendible, as long as new money is rolling in, so we might as well stiffen that lower lip, straighten our drastically doomed and unfortunately colored shirts and go do our part for the cause. Last one crumbled as a squishy cube is a rotten egg! At least this option suggests an easy recognition symbol. I foresee small but stoic-faced stalwarts wearing red uniform shirts sitting together in the NuTrek panels, glowering with discontent. Hey, it's not our job to rebel or fight, we're just here to perish nobly so others can have their fun.
THE VULCAN DEFENSE FORCE: Talk about motivation for taking drastic action! If only we'd been there to prevent this disaster in the first place!
TIMEFLEET or the Temporal Authority whatever they're called, who certainly should have gotten off their butts and hammered that crazy miner completely out of history! CANON-FREAKIN'-VIOLATION!
THE MIRROR UNIVERSE FLEET: HAH! We really ARE an alternate timeline. In OUR universe, Nero jumped back in time and got his tattooed heiny blown to bits by the I.S.S. Kelvin. That Captain Robau, with his mean-looking goatee, is one bad muther... [Shut your mouth!]
UNIMATRIX ZERO: Well. Everyone else got Assimilated and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. At least we can go make our own little paradise and dream our own dreams.
I like dreaming. sigh.
From Starfleet to the International Federation of Trekkers to the Klingon Diplomatic Corps to a dozen other "in character" and out organizations, we do tend to come together.
So I began to muse on the current split between the fans of NuTrek and...those who are not so thrilled with it. How long will it be before the disgruntled or dissatisfied start joining together, for comfort if nothing else, in opposition to the Abomination? What form will the Resistance take?
(We all know that the resistance to the NuTrek Dominion will begin on Earth...and most mentally unstable Augments agree that it will eventually end in victory. Really. oh stop laughing.)
A number of possibilities come to mind:
THE MAQUIS: My personal favorite and the best reflection of the situation at hand. (from the Trekrpgnet forum)
The Powers That Be make a policy decision that caters to traditional enemies at the expense of those who have served the Cause for their entire careers. Their decision leaves those who disagree with it out in the cold, in hostile territory, with no back up or rescue in sight. The outraged and baffled former loyalists see the current policy as a violation of everything The Cause has been about since the beginning. Unable to accept this betrayal, unwilling to just submit to their new masters and to the enemies all around them, they band together to wage a covert war of resistance, or sheer survival, because that is the only way they can preserve their identities as loyalists to a cause that has abandoned them, and keep their own vision of the dream alive.
hmm.
Welcome to the Maquis, boys!
I say we arm those old courier ships and take it to the Cardie bastards!
And don't trust that Tuvok guy. I have a "feeling" about him.
...
...
mind you. I don't think this ends very well for us, now that I think about it...
sigh.
THE REDSHIRTS: Well. The studio thinks we're expendible, as long as new money is rolling in, so we might as well stiffen that lower lip, straighten our drastically doomed and unfortunately colored shirts and go do our part for the cause. Last one crumbled as a squishy cube is a rotten egg! At least this option suggests an easy recognition symbol. I foresee small but stoic-faced stalwarts wearing red uniform shirts sitting together in the NuTrek panels, glowering with discontent. Hey, it's not our job to rebel or fight, we're just here to perish nobly so others can have their fun.
THE VULCAN DEFENSE FORCE: Talk about motivation for taking drastic action! If only we'd been there to prevent this disaster in the first place!
TIMEFLEET or the Temporal Authority whatever they're called, who certainly should have gotten off their butts and hammered that crazy miner completely out of history! CANON-FREAKIN'-VIOLATION!
THE MIRROR UNIVERSE FLEET: HAH! We really ARE an alternate timeline. In OUR universe, Nero jumped back in time and got his tattooed heiny blown to bits by the I.S.S. Kelvin. That Captain Robau, with his mean-looking goatee, is one bad muther... [Shut your mouth!]
UNIMATRIX ZERO: Well. Everyone else got Assimilated and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. At least we can go make our own little paradise and dream our own dreams.
I like dreaming. sigh.
