You have become president of the Federation...

Hammer · Post by **Hammer** » 2002-10-25 05:29pm

..What do you do?

Setting is DS9 era a bit before the start of the Dominion war.

Consideration: There is a possible war looming with the Dominion.

What do you do in order to re-structure the Federation as a whole, but also to give it the best possible chance of facing the new threat?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-10-25 05:34pm

I'd replace technobabble with actual technology, and up the coolness factor of the entire UFP by at least 500 percent ^_^

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-10-25 05:37pm

Blow up the wormhole first of all.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2002-10-25 05:50pm

Kill off the some main characters and introduce some fresh faces.

Publius · Post by **Publius** » 2002-10-25 05:54pm

Is suicide to keep oneself oneself from having to accept the dishonour of being President of the United Federation in the first place a legitimate option?

Publius

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-10-25 05:54pm

fire al of my admirals and get someone who actually know what strategy is and how to use it. order the civvies of of all ships imediatally

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-25 06:06pm

President of the Federation.. NOT the Show

Defect tops my list

Acclamator · Post by **Acclamator** » 2002-10-25 06:12pm

I would go no holds barred and tell the engineers to design the largest most powerful battleship that available technology could offer.

The primary battleship would preferably be a mile long, wedge shaped, and have multiple pulse phaser cannon turret emplacements of varying firepower range. The power core woudl be a giant warp core taking up a large percentage of the ship's volume, and the engineers woudl be tasked with building pulse phaser cannons capable of handling a throughput equalling the maximum output of said core. I'd hope maybe to get firepower up into the gigaton range. I'd also have the ship heavily armored with with the most damage-resistant and armor-suitable material available to the Federation (whatever that may be), with at least a couple of meters of it over the entire hull. The ship would also be designed to have the most powerful shields of any known ship, with multiple and independant shield generators and a backup warp core for the shields.

A third, normal sized warp core would power the ship's propulsion.

Numerous safeties would be built into each warp core to ensure that something such as a shipwide power outage would not cause core breach.

I'd have a hangar bay in the ship's underbelly carrying about 70 Tacfighters.

All production of other ships would be frozen and this ship type "mass produced" as quickly as possible to have as many as possible to meet the Dominion threat.

Possibly farm out the design to the Klingons to allow them to build their own copies of the ship.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-25 06:12pm

Destroying the wormhole is the best choice, really. I wonder why Section 31 never tried to do that...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-25 06:15pm

I'd grab a few dozen star ships with the prefix codes; kill the crews and travel a couple thousand lightly ears towards the core. There I'd breed an army of cyborg Beavers and then have them build a worth while fleet for me.

Darth Valdemar · Post by **Darth Valdemar** » 2002-10-25 06:19pm

Acclamator wrote:I would go no holds barred and tell the engineers to design the largest most powerful battleship that available technology could offer.

The primary battleship would preferably be a mile long, wedge...

<snip>

Sounds like you're basically attempting to design a "Federation Star Destroyer"

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2002-10-25 06:21pm

Mr Bean wrote:President of the Federation.. NOT the Show

Defect tops my list

whopps my fault.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-10-25 06:39pm

Commander LeoRo wrote:Destroying the wormhole is the best choice, really. I wonder why Section 31 never tried to do that...

Their cells had gone underground to avoid the Tal'Shiar (IOW, they hadn't been invented yet

)

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2002-10-25 06:48pm

A friend and I are fans of ST...well, I should say TOS, and to an extent TNG. The things he and I could do if we were in charge....

All "Warships" are recalled....I'm turning those things into REAL warships. I'm disbanding most of the power of council (Let's face it, democracys with lots of different views are good but SO ineffective when you need to get something done) And I'm making a real warfleet, able to do something in the lines of taking on a Cube with minimal losses. And see if I can pull off getting worthy enough ships so that I can take on an ISD....With major losses but hey. Civvies are OFF my ships. And I'm not looking for stray asteroids with my explorers, they're working on creating more powerful weapons, shields, etc.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2002-10-25 11:28pm

Let's see... I've become president of the Federation.

What do I do next?

I'M GOING TO DISNEYMOON!

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2002-10-25 11:29pm

—I steal the newest, fastest, most advanced prototype starship and cruise the galaxy with my girlfriend.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2002-10-25 11:44pm

Hammer wrote:..What do you do?

Setting is DS9 era a bit before the start of the Dominion war.

Consideration: There is a possible war looming with the Dominion.

What do you do in order to re-structure the Federation as a whole, but also to give it the best possible chance of facing the new threat?

What kind of power does the Federation president wield? Is there a Senate? A House of Representatives? Some form of body with which that president shares power?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-25 11:57pm

Patrick Degan wrote:—I steal the newest, fastest, most advanced prototype starship and cruise the galaxy with my girlfriend.

... for about three days, until your girlfriend asks "what does this button do?" You run toward her in a panic, screaming "NOOOOOOOO ..." but it's too late. She presses the button, which causes a cascade failure of the <insert thirty pages of meaningless technobabble here>, thus causing the ship to blow up.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-10-26 12:01am

Darth Wong wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:—I steal the newest, fastest, most advanced prototype starship and cruise the galaxy with my girlfriend.
... for about three days, until your girlfriend asks "what does this button do?" You run toward her in a panic, screaming "NOOOOOOOO ..." but it's too late. She presses the button, which causes a cascade failure of the <insert thirty pages of meaningless technobabble here>, thus causing the ship to blow up.

so Patrick Degan is really Mandark in disguise, interesting

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-10-26 12:03am

Darth Wong wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:—I steal the newest, fastest, most advanced prototype starship and cruise the galaxy with my girlfriend. 8)
... for about three days, until your girlfriend asks "what does this button do?" You run toward her in a panic, screaming "NOOOOOOOO ..." but it's too late. She presses the button, which causes a cascade failure of the <insert thirty pages of meaningless technobabble here>, thus causing the ship to blow up.

And then it'll spontaneously reassemble, with a rather fetchingly redesigned interior.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2002-10-26 12:18am

Beowulf wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:—I steal the newest, fastest, most advanced prototype starship and cruise the galaxy with my girlfriend.
... for about three days, until your girlfriend asks "what does this button do?" You run toward her in a panic, screaming "NOOOOOOOO ..." but it's too late. She presses the button, which causes a cascade failure of the <insert thirty pages of meaningless technobabble here>, thus causing the ship to blow up.
And then it'll spontaneously reassemble, with a rather fetchingly redesigned interior.

But then, that leaves the question of the whale and the bowl of petunias...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-10-26 01:53am

If I were president, I would introduce a nifty concept called, "capitalism." Using "capitalism," I would hand out military contracts to private corporations, ensuring that the final product is in top form. Then I'd evict the civs off of Starfleet, and if the crew resist, they shall be court-martialed, and I will make sure they never work for the Federation again. I'll also begin training ground troops, for the inevitable ground combat. Lastly, I will establish a New Order, and bring stability to the Alpha Quadrant.

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2002-10-26 01:58am

ONE BIG RAPID FIRE DEFLECTOR SHEILD CANNON AT WORMHOLE :p

and battleships

and economy based upon AI and drones, since they replicate much faster. Than we use transporter tech to replicate top citizens and best warrors.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-10-26 02:24am

I would dig up an old copy of Star Wars and show them how things should really be run. Then I'll dissolve the government, set myself up as emperor, and make sure my right hand man doesn't have any pesky kids or pesky morals.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-10-26 02:36am

Patrick Degan wrote:
Beowulf wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: ... for about three days, until your girlfriend asks "what does this button do?" You run toward her in a panic, screaming "NOOOOOOOO ..." but it's too late. She presses the button, which causes a cascade failure of the <insert thirty pages of meaningless technobabble here>, thus causing the ship to blow up.
And then it'll spontaneously reassemble, with a rather fetchingly redesigned interior.
But then, that leaves the question of the whale and the bowl of petunias...

Oh, the whale lands on Voyager, destroying it utterly, and the bowl of petunias bonks on Wesley's head, killing instantly.

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