Re: no!!!

> It would be very easy to do. The logical choice would be the Cardassians; the
> have been so many hints dropped in both TNG and DS9 (last I watched it,
> anyway, which was quite awhile ago) about a Cardassian military buildup, but
> nobody ever bothers to do anything with it. It's the height of poor writing t
> create such a buildup and then not put it to use. How long do the Cardassians
> plan to assemble their forces? And how long can we reasonably expect the
> Federation to not notice? Using such a heavy-handed backdrop, with such far-
> reaching and long-term implications, to simply motivate one or two individual
> episodes, is extremely cheap. If they employ this situation in the movie and
> bring it to a resolution, fine; but if they continue to just ignore it except
> when it's convenient to provide a half-plot for an episode, it just drives
> ST's credibility even further down the drain.

Then you, my friend, should have watched the season premier of DS9!
     The Klingons are no longer a part of the Federation.  The Obsidian Order,
amongst the Cardassian Empire was dispersed.  The Cardassian Government was
overthrown by the Civilian public, and their Military was rather meek.  With
the threat of the Dominion from the Gamma Quadrant, the Klingons assumed that
the change of power within the Cardassians was a Dominion ploy.  The Klingons
all but obliterated the Cardassian forces in an invasion of Cardassia Prime.
The Federation refused to back the Klingons in this action, and even helped
protect the new Cardassian political officers.  Because of this, the Klingons
have withdrawn from their treaty with the Federation and Worf is now a
Klingon outcast.
     Thus begins a new era of Star Trek Wars!
     As for the new TNG movie due out in late 1996, it's been heard that the
movie will involve the Borg, once more.

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