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"Si vis pacem, para bellum." (If you want peace, prepare for war)
- Vegetius
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Ross: "Inter arma, enim silent leges."
Bashir: "'In the time of war the law falls silent.' Cicero. Have we become a 24th-century Rome, driven by the fact that Caesar can do no wrong?!"
-Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.
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I bet when Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would
always end up saying "Don't forget the big heavy eyebrows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky eyebrows too, and then they would get mad and eat the snowman.
-Jack Handey
If I recall correctly, the three ships that attacked the Bord at Mars in TBOBW, were part of a Mars Perimeter Defence force and not Starfleet.
In Unification, the Vulcans had a defence force shown near the end when the Romulan "peace" delegations are going to Vulcan...
There should be more but I just forget.
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No I'm Spartacus!
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
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R.E.M.
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Lisa: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Bart: "Not if you called them 'stench blossoms'..."
-The Simpsons
As for new Federation members, I would think that most of the forces that the members have will be integrated into Starfleet and the Federation but there will be a few that will be left in place to handle local events. I would think it would be modeled like the US Government. There would be local and member organizations to handle the day to day events on the planet. Then there is Starfleet which handles the entire Federation events.
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Sometimes I run
Sometimes I hide
Sometimes I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right, be with you day and night
Baby all I need is time
-Britney Spears
IMO, the personel of any new planet would indeed be absorbed into Starfleet. We'd see Bajorans wearing Starfleet uniforms and all the people in the Bajoran Militia would be given equivalant ranks in Starfleet (after proper training of course). They'd be assigned to Starfleet ships and bases.
Scraping the Bajoran ships would be silly, though. Some of them may be refit to serve in the fleet in a limited fashion, but I would suggest that most would be assigned to civilian duty or used for planetary defense. These ships could be manned by (as suggested earlier) a "planetary guard" that would not necessarily be under Fleet all the time. However, in times of emergency, the Fleet could take command of such groups.
With a group like the Klingons, though, should they ever join the Federation, I think most Klingon ships would remain in service. We'd probably see major upgrades to equipment, though, as well as more diversified crews and lots of Klingons in Starfleet uniforms! Imagine that!
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"A gathering of Angels appeared above my head. They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said..." -Styx
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.