"No Doors We Open Can Shut For A Thousand Years" - Lines by Helene Margaret, carved above the main steps into the Palais de Concorde
"I dedicate this building - built at the heart of the city that was the nursery of terran democracy, and the mother of her sentient rights - to the future: and to those who will come here to build a better life for all." - Ambassador Soval, July 14 2171.
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Political Factions and Parties in the Federation are not “parties” in the organised, structured sense. They are ideological groupings, based upon mutual principles, but without a formal party structure for electioneering or campaigning in the way that most planetary political parties are. They are also not directly connected with planetary political parties; as every federation member chooses their Federation Councilor with methods of their own discretion, such formal connections would be impossible.
While the factions would be disparate and overlapping for much of the first century of the UFP, after T'Kuvma's War and the Th’rhahlat Administration, political groups began to coalesce around the Chartist-Unionist poles. However, neither of these two factions ever possessed enough political power to create a “two-party system” of any kind. Denise Trennow
Master’s Dissertation (Abstract) University of Alpha III Spring Term, 2352 In this dissertation, we will explore the key role that Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet at the end of James Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, had in creating the cult of personality that has surrounded that ship and her heirs ever since. This will be followed by a discussion of the short but glorious career of the USS Enterprise-C, and will make the case that her captain, Rachel Garrett, would be the greatest hero to captain an Enterprise but for Nogura’s nearly century-long shadow. |