Uraniun235 wrote:Goddamnit Gil, Picard was told the Federation could not afford another war, and thus was ordered to preserve the peace at all costs. ALL costs. Or are you going to conveniently skip over this again?
"Peace at all costs" never is at all costs, and you know it. More on this in a second.
Because determining Federation policy and Starfleet strategy is what Picard
should be doing.

I thought this sort of behavior was something Star Trek was lambasted for.
Letting your enemy build up for the express purpose of attacking you and not even informing anyone about it is something that Picard
shouldn't do.
Refusing to follow orders certainly is, although the right jury might aquit him. I don't know, "preserve the peace at all costs" is pretty clear.
Tell me where he was ordered to give away the transponder codes that would allow the Cardassians to track all Federation ships? Or where he was ordered to give away the codes that gave the advantage to his enemy who was intent on killing his fellow servicemen? He never was.
And "peace at all costs" is
not a clear statement. In fact, it's a really, really vague statement. For instance, if the Cardassians demanded that the Enterprise be turned over to Cardassian authority, or there would be war, would Picard do it? No. You still protect your nation and don't sumbit to a clear enemy or give that enemy sensitive information. Doing so is treason. Those transponder codes and the codes that allowed them to disable the defenses of a fellow Federation starship are clearly sensitive information, yet Picard, of his own free will, turned them over to the Cardassians. He was never ordered to and the situation wouldn't have dissolved into war if he hadn't. That's treason right there.
Of course, this will probably fall of deaf ears, since Trekkies like you rarely use their brains if it means that they have to call their hero Picard a traitorous moron, but hey, I tried.
Again, why is it impossible for Starfleet to change the codes?
They can, but not before the Cardassians get a headcount of whats on their border and where they are going and what's defending what. I doubt this is getting through your thick trekkie skull, so I'll say it in small words for you, that is a bad thing, as a enemy (the bad guys) now know where all the good guys are and where they are going to. This makes the bad guys able to attack the good guys very easily, because the bad guys now know where the good guys are not so good. Is any of that reaching you? I can make pictures illustrating it, if you want. The point is that what Picard did was clearly treasonous. People have hanged historically for doing similar things.