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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Considering Picard's attitudes throught the TV series, I wouldn't be surprised if there were only between 1 and 2 million casualties in the whole of the Cardassian conflicts, and he'd call that "millions" to make it sound worse. He could also have been including both sides' losses in that figure. And remember that the Cardassian conflict lasted at LEAST 20 years, since the raid on Setlik III was supposed to have taken place a good number of years before TNG -- back in the late 2340's, according to the [i]Chronology[/i]. As for the Dominion War, has anyone ever taken a look at the [i]Star Charts[/i] and (mentally) overlaid those outline maps of Dominion-occupied territory on top of a map of the Alpha Quadrant? I did that briefly a while back, and according those (admittedly very speculative) images, the Dominion cut a huge swath of territory across the region rimward of Earth, all the way out to the Klingon Empire. That would suggest at LEAST several dozen member worlds were under the gun, and probably colony worlds numbering in the hundreds. Or more. Remember in the sixth season, how they somewhat frequently mentioned threats to Vulcan, Andor, and Alpha Centauri? They had to have been making serious advances into the Federation core territories in order to threaten those planets -- even not relying on [i]Star Charts[/i], that would be a reasonable assertion to make, IMO. A big question to ask would be, how cleanly would Starfleet (or Klingons or Romulans, for that matter) be able to clear out a Jem'Hadar occupation force on the surface of a heavily-populated planet, if the Dominion decided to hold their ground and make a protracted fight out of it? What if they chose to adopt a "scorched earth" policy? Not even necessarily on the scale of the destruction of Cardassia, of course, but still very damaging. And so, I would even suggest that the majority of the Federation losses could quite possibly have been accumulated on the ground -- and that would seriously drive up the casualty numbers. Surface warfare really seemed to be a weakness of Starfleet in the 24th century, based on the operations we've seen. Wouldn't the Jem'Hadar gleefully take advantage of that? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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