Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 6:50am

For Star Trek Day

Commander Eddington’s speech was a good reminder that the Federation was not utopia.

 I know you. I was like you once, but then I opened my eyes. Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed about the Maquis? We’ve never harmed you, and yet we’re constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. Why? Because we’ve left the Federation, and that’s the one thing you can’t accept. Nobody leaves paradise. Everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. You’re only sending them replicators because one day they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways you’re worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You’re more insidious. You assimilate people and they don’t even know it.

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Wednesday, September 9, AD 2020 2:00am

Excellent summary of how sheep are lead to the wolves both in and outside of the Church–especially by the Democrat Party:
“At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You’re more insidious. You assimilate people and they don’t even know it.”

Foxfier
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Wednesday, September 9, AD 2020 11:10am

It really was an awesome villain speech– just enough of a point to cut, enough truth to taste true, and it takes forever to identify the catches to it.
Like this:
We’ve never harmed you, and yet we’re constantly arrested and charged with terrorism.
It’s technically, mostly, true.

They were blowing up Cardassian vessels and settlements. Which may or may not have had pre-planet-trading Federation members on them, and may very well have been targeting at least flagged as now-Federation-citizen Cardassians as possible threats.
(Obsidian Order, they were probably correct at least once. Which really does nothing for their targets of illegal aggression, nor changes that they were committing terrorism.)

The Federation was stupid. Very, very stupid, in a wide variety of ways and to a breath-taking depth.
But Eddington didn’t care until they did something stupid that he didn’t like– and then he felt he had the right to take the ball he’d been playing with and go home.
It’s always hard to figure out how to dissolve a partnership that isn’t working, but that’s really not the way to do it!

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