Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Yes. It was forced on them because of the few starfleet who betrayed the uniform but realistically he bulk of the maquis wouldn't be starfleet right?

Yeah it was a few active Starfleet and some ex-Starfleet, but the majority were colonist who didn't want to be displaced.

It was weird that they had Sisko and Picard of all people, be on the wrong side of the Native American and Vietnamese resettlement issues.

It's interesting to see you say that. This is the bit where we used to just tell ourselves, 'Well, that's the American thing with the whole civil war hang-up; it's not going to make sense to us outside the US.'

No, it didn't make sense to us inside the US, either. I rejected it right of the bat, because there's no way the Federation would have agreed to such a treaty. Also, never seemed to me much like the US Civil War, much more like the Indian wars.

No, not that part, but the Marquis are traitors and therefore worse than the Borg stuff.

Yeah, that didn't make sense either.

I think it was more to highlight the differences of the Federation values versus the ones of the Maquis that wanted to live off their land without Fed bullshit.

So, basically space Libertarians

That's because the Maquis didn't have a MILF to rub Picard's head.

What a boring political argument. Can you imagine if instead of the Maquis they used an authoritarian race who ran their starships with iron fists? Now that would have been something. Brig time for showing up late or with messy hair. Intercepting ships with shields up and weapons loaded.

Yeah, that would've been intetesting.

But UPN and Paramount's motto was "Make it easy!"

Makes me glad it wasnt DS9 that became the flagship show for that network

DS9 was syndicated just like TNG.

These fugging phones drop letters and changes my fucking meanings all the damn time

IIRC DS9 was more profitable than TNG despite weaker ratings

The Maquis were a way to introduce conflict to VOY without breaking Gene's stupid "the Federation has evolved past conflict" rule, since they weren't technically Federation citizens. Same reason the DS9 crew was half Bajoran instead of full Starfleet, the ENT gang was pre-Federation, and Worf got the more interesting plots on TNG. Worf gets to have a child out of wedlock, be a deadbeat dad, consider suicide instead of using a wheelchair, or murder a guy for revenge.

Also why the Bajorans were allowed to worship gods.

Hopefully, we'll find out something about timeline and/or casting next Wednesday.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/star-trek-discovery-set-pre-tos/

Maquis would make a good name for a car. Marquis has already been used.

My prediction - in a throwback to the original dating system that seeped into continuity in the films (current year + 300 years) I'm predicting that Discovery will start with 2217

This reminds me - as early as season 2 TNG we got some break from the "no conflict" rule with Riker's dad. And series 3 had the Picard brothers feudin'.

Season 4

Dude! It would have been so awesome if Robert and Jean Luc started reenacting the dueling banjoes scene from Deliverance.

Sisko only really hated Eddington. He didn't seem to bear a grudge against Cal Hudson, to the point of letting him escape, and he married Kassidy Yates once she got out of prison.

I wanted to give my younger daughter "Kassidy" as a middle name but got outvoted by my wife.

The "no conflict" thing was only a rule pertaining to the crew, not other humans IIRC.

Good on your wife.

Fuller teases alien from the show. http://www.theouthousers.com/index....t-at-a-guardians-of-the-galaxy-crossover.html

People keep saying Andorians, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was another new alien that this team is making up for the show.

*Jeopardy theme plays*