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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]I'll always argue that the Fed has an army because it cannot be otherwise.[/QUOTE]Ah, this would be the part where we totally disagree and I don't think either of us will convince the other. As for the militia, I was only using Bajor as an example as it's the only (potential) instance of Starfleet absorbing a local force which we have any degree of insight on. Getting the locals up to Starfleet standard would only happen when a new world joins, the majority of worlds in the Federation (and potentially thousands of colony worlds) have been members for a century or more and so the local planet bound Stafleet detachment would mostly be made up of enlisted personnel recruited from the local population who have no immediate wish to serve on a Starship, are on a waiting list to get a Starship assignment or are semi-retired and have chosen to come back to their homeworld in the role of a specialist or in leadership roles. There'd also be a percentage of reservists made up of retired officers and enlisted that can be re-activated if need be. Put simply, I don't see the ground forces of Starfleet delineated into a separate branch of the service (such as Army, Airforce, Navy) StarFLEET is just one service. People in Stafleet who happen to serve on planets mostly do so out of choice and come under Starfleet Security, since Starfleet are responsible for the security of member worlds. [QUOTE]Rev - it remains to be seen if they could have projected "overwhelming force" through the wormhole if the Feds had a real station w/ whatever would constitute as "heavy defenses". They had an obsolescent Cardie mining station.[/QUOTE]Well sure, it's a totally hypothetical scenario so you could argue it one way or the other. I'll just say they with the sheer numbers of ships they were able to assemble in the Gamma quadrant to go to Cardassia between "Inferno's Light" and "Call to Arms" I think it's safe to say that they have formidable resources at their disposal. In point of fact Starfleet believed it was worth loosing all those ships in "Sacrifice of Angel" if it meant cutting off access to the wormhole, so the threat is significant. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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