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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:05:43 -0800 (PST), "David E. Powell"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Jan 10, 6:09 pm, SFTV_troy wrote:   
   >> On Jan 10, 3:48 pm, "David E. Powell"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > On Jan 8, 4:25 pm, SFTV_troy wrote:   
   >> > > On Jan 8, 1:57 am, "David E. Powell" wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > > > The ironic thing is that the hard core Maquis members seemed   
   >> > > > to get trust from Janeway faster than Paris did.   
   >>   
   >> > > Well of course. Janeway probably understands people fighting for   
   >> > > their homes. She doesn't understand an officer betraying Starfleet.   
   >>   
   >> > Not really. B'lanna wasn't so much Maquis for that as she   
   >> > didn't fit in with Starfleet.   
   >>   
   >> True. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what Paris did in the   
   >> Academy, but I do recall him being demoted at one point for a crime he   
   >> perpetrated while on Voyager, so again, Janeway had reason not to   
   >> trust him.   
   >   
   >Paris basically got the biography of a character who was on "The Next   
   >Generation" who was in Red Squadron and performed an unauthorized   
   >flying stunt that resulted in a fellow cadet dying.   
      
   And the actor. It was very strange.   
      
      
   >   
   >> > Torres and Chakotay were out engaged in a personal war in territory   
   >> > the Federation had ruled they had no business being inside in the   
   >> > first place   
   >>   
   >> You're mistaken. The Federation originally gave that territory to   
   >> settlers about 20 years earlier, and then reversed their decision as   
   >> part of the Cardassian Peace Treaty.   
   >   
   >Still, they had ruled that the Maquis had no business being there,   
   >after the settling precipitated the first war with the Cardassians.   
      
   Because Federation diplomats suck so bad.   
      
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