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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]That's crap.[/QUOTE]No it's not. Your arguements are crap. [QUOTE]Starfleet had zero contact with the Romulans for decades and no idea what (if any!) knowledge they had of the Iconians.[/QUOTE]How do YOU know that? Do you have access to off-screen Starfleet Intelligence files? Somehow, I doubt it. Varley's logic: a. I found an artifact of Iconian origin. b. If an artifact is here, then it's possible that there are artifacts scattered throughout the Alpha Quadrant. This is worth following up. c. I have followed up. Iconia is in the Neutral Zone. Link with B -> the Romulans have the same ability to locate Iconia as I do. d. Iconian technology must be kept out of Romulan hands at all costs. [QUOTE]Varley had no evidence that anything of value was on Iconia at all. All he had was a randon pices of tech that did nothing and they could'nt even figure out what it was![/QUOTE]Let me ask you something. If you were commander of a Federation starship and learned that Iconia was within reach of a hostile, aggressive power with an eye on Federation territory, could you say to yourself "Well, there might not be anything on that planet, so I'm going to keep going on my survey mission." [QUOTE]He got (historically) lucky that there was anything left there at all:[/QUOTE]I would say he got lucky that his mission was accomplished: Iconia was removed as a threat. [QUOTE]If the Warbird HAD destroyed the Yamato the Romulans could have easily claimed self defense- A Galaxy class starship violates the Zone, makes a beeline toward the Romulan homeworld and gives them NO eplanation as to why?[/QUOTE]So what? Of the possible outcomes to Varley's mission, the destruction of the Yamato is insignificant. If not for the mission, the entire Federation could've been brought down. [QUOTE]Who would have said Varley's flimsy "evidence" was reason to risk billions of lives in a war with the Romulans?[/QUOTE]Considering that Varley's evidence was DEAD ON, I wouldn't call it flimsy. And in case you've consistently missed the point, a war fought without the benefit of Iconian technology on the side of the Romulans would be preferable to the Romulans finding Iconia. [QUOTE]Even if he'd managed to evac his crew and somehow survive his ship's destruction he'd probably have been courtmartialed and lost his command.[/QUOTE]And SAVED THE FEDERATION in the process! If all it cost him was his career, he really would've beaten fate. [QUOTE]Again, Varley had the leisure of time on his side to contact Starfleet (or a LEAST his pal Jean Juc!) for advice and backup prior to risking a war.[/QUOTE]You don't know this. [QUOTE]If the Romulans DID destroy Yamato and start a war, starfleet command would have been clueless as to why Varley was in the zone at all![/QUOTE]No. If the Romulans had destroyed the Yamato, the Federation would have pointed out "Look, six months earlier you sent a Warbird INTO FEDERATION SPACE to the locations where a bunch of our outposts got blown up. We didn't go to war with you for crossing the Zone AND ILLEGALLY ENTERING FEDERATION SPACE and possible participating in those attacks, so you have no reason to moan about a Galaxy-Class ship that stayed IN the Zone and never entered Romulan space. Paint a GCS silhouette on your ship's hull, shut the fuck up, and call it a day." [QUOTE]It would have become an unprovoked war by the federation and cost any rep the Federation had with it's neighbors.[/QUOTE]How do you figure? One ship entering the Neutral Zone is an act of war? What does that make crossing completely through the Zone and into the other's territory? A declaration of war? Let's see - that means the Romulans declared war in "The Neutral Zone", "The Defector" and "The Enemy." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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