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The return of "You're The Admiral!"--Dorza Sector
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] Picking at the trees. Look at the forest. My overall plan here was a lesson in the ambiguities of the Prime Directive. An armed skirmish was of course in the cards all along; it was written into the scenario. Even if you had let the Gorn waltz into the ZTZ, they would've then headed for Dorza, or Semma. The militaristic points that caused me to twitch, yes, were elemetns such as Neutrino's statement that "the Gorn & the Federation are now at war!" Wars don't start over backwater sectors; even the Klingon Conflict of 2372 wasn't REALLY because of Archanis. The question here was "How far are you willing to go, & how liberal will you be in the application of noninterference?" A Federation ally with a hatred of the old, a member of the "iron fist, velvet glove" club. A mysterious & enticing planet of symbiotes who won't have anything to do with you. A world on the verge of entering the galaxy. An old antagonist rattling a saber. Each of these presented their own unique challenge; combined they caused a bit of a headache. The goal here was to THINK. As Starfleet officers you are trained to PROact, not REact. Yes, there has been a war 4 years past. Yes, there's still effects from that. But as devastating as that war was, there is still the chance for hope. There are so many "dark days after the Dominion War" concepts floating around the web. They deal with destruction, broken faiths, rebuilding, picking up the pieces. I seem to be the only one who believes that there was a simple redirection. Let us continue with the WW2 analogy already in effect. After the war it took many, many years to ramp down from a war production state. Ships were held onto for 20, 25 more years or were sold off to lesser nations who needed to rebuild. Materiel still flowed, although not as much as the days of war. Men returned from overseas service armed with the knowledge & drive to build something better. By the middle of the Eisenhower administration, this had been channeled into the very same military-industrial complex that he had warned against, the one that continued until the early 1990s. Eventually the hit was felt because there was nowhere to go with this area of industry. with no war, no standing enemy, you take a hit. Slowly but surely there's been diversification into the public field, but the same opportunities are not there. Now we have the same situation 430 years later. A great war has been fought & ended, there is still massive war production rates going, & there is a need to rebuild. But unlike the post-WW2 US, the post-DW UFP HAS an outlet, the same outlet it's always had. Exploration. Rather than huddle close to home, rather than quiet the engines of war, rather than keep an eye on what we have with an aim to make sure it's never taken from us, I choose to believe the federation once again looked OUTWARD for the impetus to heal from within. The did not huddle close to home; they surged forward to explore more, to learn, & to make sure that they can be better defended BY that knowledge. They did not quiet the engines of war; they turned them to the engines of peace, with new ships & installations to replace what was lost, to spearhead the new frontier. They did not look to hold on to what was theirs by denying everything else; they held on to it by seeing MORE. Starfleet & the Federation spent 2 years enforcing the peace. Now it would return to creating the peace. There is a severe difference between the peace of the gun & the peace of the open hand. Belief in the former was necessary to survive the war; belief in the latter is necessary to survive the aftermath. Class dismissed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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