In the latest inciting exstallment of Winning the Peace: The Alpha Quadrant after the Dominion War (ST), Nathan Goldwag dives into the logs of the California-class support vessel USS Cerritos to analyze one of Armageddon's Aftershocks: The Pakled Crisis of 2380-2381.
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EmperorNorton150 Wrote:Professor Hsepha Taro
Starfleet Academy
San Francisco, United Earth
United Federation of Planets
Starfleet Strategic Review
07.04.2386
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SUMMARY: The Pakled Crisis of 2380-2381 is by no means recalled as Starfleet’s finest hour. There are no monuments to it at Les Invalides in Paris, no mention of it on the Wall of Remembrance at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Terms such as “farcical” or “an embarrassment” are often used to describe the nine chaotic months in which one of the Alpha Quadrant’s most overlooked and least-notable species proved to be an enduring thorn in the side the of Federation, before self-destructing in as abrupt and bizarre a manner as it began. But it is worth taking a more intensive look at the events that brought the Pakleds to the brink of war with the Federation, and how the UFP responded. In both respects, this crisis represents a very useful case study in the enduring aftereffects of the Dominion War on the Alpha Quadrant.
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