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Even relative to that, it's equivalent to the United States giving up the entire state of Wyoming, not "a few border towns"

I mean, when you take into account Picard's final conversation with the Cardassians, he's very clearly saying, "I know that Maxwell's evidence proves that he was right about you violating the armistice. I knowingly backstabbed him by refusing to look at the evidence in order to give you another...

"Following orders from command" in no way requires or justifies Picard to literally go, "I'm going to close my eyes and refuse to look at the factual evidence in order to make sure it stays off the official record and the Federation can pretend this evidence never existed, including for when...

Also, I *really* don't think you're correctly grasping the magnitude of territory the Federation gave up. These were not the equivalent of "a few small towns"; these were labeled by the Federation as colonies, but were in fact *established worlds*. To put the numbers in accurate perspective...

But that was a give and take where the British negotiated in good faith and ceded territory as well. This was the Federation abjectly rolling over for the Cardassians, bowing to every unreasonable demand foisted on them by a *weaker* power, *unilaterally* handing over entire planets with...

That's the equivalent of the United States government deciding to just . . . cede Arizona back to Mexico, declaring all of its residents to now be stateless persons but "generously" offering them to be resettled as refugees.

While this is a good point, it's worth pointing out that the Federation openly sold out entire member worlds by giving them to the Cardassian Union in exchange for "peace in our time", and this apparently went down with little to no controversy outside of the Federation citizens so betrayed. The...

My impression has always been that how tyrannically the Empire behaves in any given sector is hugely dependent on the local leadership. The Rebellion is strongest in the Outer Rim not *only* because that's where the Empire tends to be the most heavy-handed (in places), but also because the...

Yeah. The Federation is essentially a utopian extension of Western ideals with a few largely tacit touches of socialism, mostly the "no money" thing which was never really spelled out in enough detail to make sense. And as deconstructed in this fic, it's actually a pseudo-utopian tyranny "for...