It was stated on a Voyager episode that the Maquis was wiped out by the Cardasians & Jem Hadar, were Ro Laren & Cal Hudson also killed?
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The Maqus?
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Yes.
Cal Hudson died, yes. (Eddington said he did.) Ro? Maybe not. Her death was never confirmed.
Re: The Maquis?
Wasn't Hudson killed before the major wiping out thing?
As for Ro, putting aside I'm a fan of the DS9 relaunch books and I'd hate anything contradicting what is going on there (spoilerhint: Ro's a big part of it), I like to think she managed to stay alive and be able somehow to free poor forgotten Tom Riker, not necessarily in this order.
Wasn't Hudson killed before the major wiping out thing?
As for Ro, putting aside I'm a fan of the DS9 relaunch books and I'd hate anything contradicting what is going on there (spoilerhint: Ro's a big part of it), I like to think she managed to stay alive and be able somehow to free poor forgotten Tom Riker, not necessarily in this order.
Wasn't Tom Riker already serving time in a cardasian prison before the Founders & Jem Hadar came onto the scene & wouldn't Ro Laren be drummed out of Starfleet and possibly serving time in prison if she survived?
JDW
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yeah, theoretically she should be in prison but in the books they managed to avoid it (with the help of the Bajoran government and Picard's secret lobbying) and she's back in Starfleet now (that's in the relaunch. She's in a few other books that have nothing to do with that continuity, helping Starfleet not losing the Dominion War in one, dying - I think - in another and teaming up with Kira to save Bajor in a Peter David's one). And anyway, books aside, to put her in prison, Starfleet should have caught her first. And I'm not sure how much of a priority that would have been, during and after the Dominion War.
Besides, Ro can take care of herself. She basically duped the TNG's crew twice already: in her first episode, she's like a double agent for that silly Admiral until she decides to come clean with Picard and in her last she sabotages the mission with Riker acting as her chaperone for the last part of it. Starfleet's security doesn't have a chance with Ro
We have to keep in mind though that the Maqui survivors could have been released of all charges after spending some time in prison because the Dominion War was already in motion, so SF could have utilized them and their experience to fight the Dominion.
After all, right up until the end of DS9 on TV, the Cardassians were part of the Dominion, and the Maqui knowledge/tactics against them could have been used during the War.
That's one way of releasing the Maqui of all charges.
The ones trapped in the DQ were already becoming part of SF in the first year on Voyager ... so helping the original SF crew get home for 7 years and acting like SF officers in the process, I think SF would have little reason to consider them a potential threat to anyone what with everything that happened in the AQ to the Cardassians (The Dominion almost wiped them out after all, so I think any urges for 'revenge' would have to be satisfied with that ... but also, we are talking about a bunch of people who dealt with the past and accepted a real possibility that they could spend the rest of their lives getting back home at least 3 years prior to them reaching the AQ).
In the end, SF would stand to gain a lot from keeping them in SF and making the ' 'trials' as minimum as possible.
After all, right up until the end of DS9 on TV, the Cardassians were part of the Dominion, and the Maqui knowledge/tactics against them could have been used during the War.
That's one way of releasing the Maqui of all charges.
The ones trapped in the DQ were already becoming part of SF in the first year on Voyager ... so helping the original SF crew get home for 7 years and acting like SF officers in the process, I think SF would have little reason to consider them a potential threat to anyone what with everything that happened in the AQ to the Cardassians (The Dominion almost wiped them out after all, so I think any urges for 'revenge' would have to be satisfied with that ... but also, we are talking about a bunch of people who dealt with the past and accepted a real possibility that they could spend the rest of their lives getting back home at least 3 years prior to them reaching the AQ).
In the end, SF would stand to gain a lot from keeping them in SF and making the ' 'trials' as minimum as possible.
Which would be a bit similar to giving pardons to Nazi or Japanese soldiers and scientists so that they could be used for fighting the Soviets. The Federation might consider that unbecoming of its highbrow morals. After all, the top Maquis fighters, like Eddington, were also wielders of hideous weapons of mass destruction against civilian populations.
But the Federation crime-fighting system doesn't seem to believe in punishment. Rather, criminals are ill and have to be cured of their crime. If the Maquis were ill with secessionist thoughts, the Feds could cure them of those specifically, while retaining use of their knowledge of Cardassian tactics and weaknesses. How much good these folks would do as fighters once cured of secessionism is a matter of debate, though.
I wonder if it would ever even come to a trial. We have those within Starfleet, but the civilian Federation might have done away with the practice, what with the new attitude towards crime. It would be up to doctors, not lawyers or judges, to decide whether Chakotay needed to spend six months in rehab in addition to having spent seven years reacclimatizing to Starfleet life.
Timo Saloniemi
