# Last Star Trek Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 25, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089 "2000-04-25T19:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joe\_x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Joe\_x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_x)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/1 "2000-04-25T19:17:00Z")
Ok one final Star Trek Question? Who are the Maqui? Aren’t they the terrorist from DS:9? and in Voyager is Lt. Paris a former memeber of the Maqui? Whats the straight dope ppl? ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/2 "2000-04-25T20:02:00Z")
From “The Star Trek Encyclopedia”… Paramilitary organization of former Federation citizens formed at the colonies affected by the border changes wrought by the Federation-Cardassian Treaty of 2370. The Maquis grew in response to Cardassian hostilities toward these colonies and to the perception that they had been abandoned by the Federation government…A number of Starfleet officers were sympathetic to the Maquis situation and either provided them with weapons, or left Starfleet to join their ranks. Paris was a member of the Maquis, as was Chakotay. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/3 "2000-04-25T20:07:00Z")
A footnote: After the Cardassians began their ill-fated alliance with the Dominion (the people from the other side of the wormhole), the two joined forces and wiped out all the Maquis in their space. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Joe\_x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_x)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/4 "2000-04-25T20:15:00Z")
Ok thanks people, I just read all I needed from [www.startrek.com.](http://www.startrek.com.) I should learn to simply look harder for information rather than simply posting here. But then again you all make it so easy (sometimes) 🙂 later ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/5 "2000-04-25T20:37:00Z")
From your spelling of the word “maquis”, I’m thinking that maybe you are not aware of the word’s origin. Maquis is the name of a dense scrubland vegetation in Mediterranean regions. It is also used as the name of resistance groups that fought against the Nazis in occupied Europe during WWII (the fighters were hiding in the hills or the bushes, hence the name maquis.) The name “maquis” was mostly used for the French resistance. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Joe\_x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_x)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/6 "2000-04-25T20:59:00Z")
In my defense I had to spell it out based upon how I have heard it pronounced on the show. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/7 "2000-04-25T23:22:00Z")
Then why didn’tcha just spell it “mockee”? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/8 "2000-04-26T00:10:00Z")
Also, the Star Trek Maquis first appeared in the later (6? 7?) seasons of TNG, not DS9. (Ensign Ro Laren from the Enterprise infiltrated them at one point.) * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/9 "2000-04-26T00:48:00Z")
The first appearance of the Maquis in any _Star Trek_ series was “The Maquis,” a _Deep Space Nine_ two-parter that aired April 24, 1994. It was subsequently mentioned in the second-to-last episode of _The Next Generation_, “Preemptive Strike,” which aired May 16, 1994. _Voyager_ sucks. ---
**Author:** ![EnochF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@EnochF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnochF)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/10 "2000-04-26T00:59:00Z")
Other geeky tidbits to add to the confusion: The Cardassians as a race first appeared in “The Wounded” (_TNG_ January 28, 1991) The Bajorans first appeared in “Ensign Ro” (_TNG_ October 7, 1991) A low-ranking Bajoran officer is sent on a dangerous mission (not involving the Maquis) in “Lower Decks” (_TNG_ February 7, 1994) We learn of a Federation-Cardassian treaty which leaves both Federation and Cardassian colony worlds in enemy territory, forcing evacuation, in “Journey’s End” (_TNG_ March 28, 1994) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/11 "2000-04-26T01:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by EnochF: > **The first appearance of the Maquis in any _Star Trek_ series was “The Maquis,” a _Deep Space Nine_ two-parter that aired April 24, 1994.** Hmm…ok, guess I was wrong. * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-star-trek-question/11089/12 "2000-04-26T01:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by EnochF: > **The Bajorans first appeared in “Ensign Ro” (_TNG_ October 7, 1991)** This brings up something that’s bugged me for a bit - I’m sure in all the stuff I read about the Bajorans at about that time, the spelling was B’jor and B’joran. Then when DS9 comes around the apostrophy became an a. Was I hallucinating? Misremembering? * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_