Say that Starfleet got wind that a terrorist cell was planning to detonate a small antimatter bomb in big mushroom Starbase, but they didn't have the antimatter yet, and they were currently in a compound on Nimbus XIV, waiting for an equipment delivery. Also they're the 'no surrender, fight to the last man' type.
Would Starfleet object to sending in a 'terminator' to wipe out the cell?
(Think Ah-nuld in 'Commando,' maybe)
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Hmmm. Starfleet would probably try to stop the supply ship (oh wait, it could of course be that the delivery simply comes from another place on Nimbus). I don't think Starfleet would actually send in 'commandos' to kill the terrorists. Probably the Starbase goes on a higher state of alert, with tightened security and more frequent interior scans. Something like antimatter would probably show up on some scanner or perhaps even trigger an automated alert (remember the unauthorized phaser fire in TWOK).
And 'no surrender, fight to the last man' types are still quite vulnerable to phasers on stun. Unless of course they barge into the Starbase with weapons drawn.
I don't think this is really the level of Section 31 though. If it requires any covert operations at all, at this scale the ordinary Intelligence would probably handle it. 31 probably handles the big interstellar issues. Planting operatives in other governments, meddling in interstellar affairs (perhaps they had some links to the TUC conspiracy).
On a related note: what is this Vulcan V'Shar security service mentioned in "Gambit"? Do individual member worlds still have their own military organizations?
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From the episode they simply seem to be the Vulcan state patrol. T'Walker, Vulcan Ranger. Certainly no one has ever suggested that Federation worlds don't have their own police/security forces.
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