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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] Lee: There has to be some kind of border patrol at least along the Fed/Romulan NZ and the Fed/Cardy DMZ. Remember that almost always when the border was crossed there was an enemy ship already waiting. The only option that ever existed to cross such a border undetected was using a cloaking device. First of all this concept wouldn't work at all if these border areas were millions of square light years in the case the Federation were thousands of ly across. This would require tens of thousands of ships and outposts on either side in this border region alone. One might object that the two territories touch only in a small area, but then the question is why there is a border conflict at all. The Romulans would have had a century to conquer all the remaining space in between, as would have the Federation, not to conquer, of course, but to find new members and found new outposts. Therefore the border areas as well as the territories need to be several orders of magnitude smaller. Timo: It is obvious that this vicinity has been created for dramaturgic reasons, and if the overall territories were actually that large it would be an incredible coincidence that the homeworlds are all so close to each other. One suggestion was that the Federation, Romulans, Klingons are something like European countries founding colonies in Africa. This would imply the borders of the motherland/fatherland (which do you prefer?) would be well-defined, whereas the colonies are spread throughout a larger region. The Federation, Klingon, Cardassian and other colonies wouldn't probably form a uniform three-dimensional territory, but it doesn't matter that much because neither side is going to risk a war about it. Only the Romulans are most probably isolationists and hide beyond their Neutral Zone. Actually, this would be one more reason to move the Klingons and Cardassians closer together that Bajor is actually located "above" the Federation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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