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It could serve as something of a parallel to the Year of Klingon story, except that Klingon civil wars are a dime a dozen, while the closest we ever got to a Federation civil war was the DS9 two-parter "Homefront/Paradise Lost". An extended Federation civil war, with the enemy in control of Earth for an extended time, would be a major WhamEpisode.

[[http://www.stowiki.org/Ketracel_White Ketracel White]] can't just be there for [[VendorTrash replicator trash]], right?

In the TV shows, after the first few bad experiences, Federation and Ferengi relations gradualy improved to the point Quark was allowed to run a bar on Deep Space 9 and Nog even became the first Ferengi to join starfleet. At this point the Federation and Ferengi still seem like polar opposites in terms of how their societies function. Unlike the Ferengi, Federation society had no need for money. Now fast forward to the events of Star Trek Online, Ferengi have become regular members of starfleet and many even ship captains. The Federation now uses several types of currencies and anything can be sold on the exchange from food to starships, [[SlaveMooks including your own officers]], to other captains willing to pay the right price. This is certainly a case of PragmaticAdaptation as money is a practical game mechanic, but consider in-universe implications: in the span of a generation or two after the Ferengi have been introduced, the Federation went from not having a use for money to openly accepting [[FridgeHorror selling people on the exchange market]].

In the TV shows, after the first few bad experiences, Federation and Ferengi relations gradualy improved to the point Quark was allowed to run a bar on Deep Space 9 and Nog even became the first Ferengi to join starfleet. At this point the Federation and Ferengi still seem like polar opposites in terms of how their societies function. Unlike the Ferengi, Federation society had no need for money. Now fast forward to the events of Star Trek Online, Ferengi have become regular members of starfleet and many even ship captains. The Federation now uses several types of currencies and anything can be sold on the exchange from food to starships, including your own officers, to other captains willing to pay the right price. This is certainly a case of PragmaticAdaptation as money is a practical game mechanic, but consider in-universe implications: in the span of a generation or two after the Ferengi have been introduced, the Federation went from not having a use for money to openly accepting [[FridgeHorror selling people on the exchange market]].

In the TV shows, after the first few bad experiences, Federation and Ferengi relations gradualy improved to the point Quark was allowed to run a bar on Deep Space 9 and Nog even became the first Ferengi to join starfleet. At this point the Federation and Ferengi still seem like polar opposites in terms of how their societies function. Unlike the Ferengi, Federation society had no need for money.
Now fast forward to the events of Star Trek Online, Ferengi have become regular members of starfleet and many even ship captains. The Federation now uses several types of currencies and anything can be sold on the exchange from food to starships, including your own officers, to other captains willing to pay the right price. This is certainly a case of PragmaticAdaptation as money is a practical game mechanic, but consider in-universe implications: in the span of a generation or two after the Ferengi have been introduced, the Federation went from not having a use for money to openly accepting [[FridgeHorror selling people on the exchange market]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5znfFotn0A Partially confirmed.]] The arc deals with the 2800 ships from the dominion war whisked into the cornfield by the Prophets. The actual Dominion is staying hands off except to get their fleet back and aren't even returning the Federation's calls. [[spoiler: The reason is that Dominion knows the Iconians are coming and Eraun states the Dominion policy is to stay the hell away from them and let the Iconians do what they want. SummonBiggerFish applies to them as well it seems.]]

* As of the fourth episode of the arc, released 3/3/2012, [[spoiler:'''confirmed'''. The mission "Outpost 4209" gives you a Jem'Hadar Bridge Officer as its reward the first time. They can consume Ketracel White and get buffed for ''ten minutes''.]]

** [[spoiler:Confirmed. He commands the U.S.S. *Chimera* as of *The Iconian War* update, and the player meets him in "Time in a Bottle".]]

The PlayerCharacter can't be the BigGood; they're busy playing TheHero. Worf is popular, has strong ties with the Federation (even though he cut official ties, he still has many friends), he's {{badass}} enough to scare off challengers, and he's a good guy.

** Now basically ''entirely'' confirmed. They were bombed for being arrogant and having a principle similar to the Prime Directive, based on [[spoiler: what seen on Iconia itself 200,000 years ago]].

* Partially confirmed via [[spoilers: the Preservers on Lae'nas]]. While details are sketchy and unlikely to get much clearer (the Iconians are obviously biased and probably not willing to talk anyway, the various entities with a loose enough connection to spacetime that they could tell tend towards the cryptic, and the Preservers [[spoiler: get killed by Iconian for the individual and then for the entire Archive with the rest of the Preservers blown up by Iconian dreadnought before they can elaborate]]), apparently the Iconians were different, 'brighter' before the war that ended with Iconia's bombardment, and said war supposedly began in part due to jealousy and fear of the Iconians and their gifts (in other words, the implication is that ''first'' war against the Iconians wasn't entirely the Iconians' fault).

** Kinda sorta supported by the TV series, which used the Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration and Series/DS9 uniforms concurrently until the gray-on-black ''First Contact'' uniforms were introduced.

** Kinda sorta supported by the TV series, which used the Series/{{TNG}} and Series/DS9 uniforms concurrently until the gray-on-black ''First Contact'' uniforms were introduced.

* Worf will die on the floor of the High Council, as per the TNG episode, either in backstory or in a game event.

* Man, first he's infested with neck parasites back in TNG, and now this. When it rains, it ''fucking pours.''
** The Admiral Quinn in TNG wasn't a Trill - it's a different Admiral Quinn

* On the other hand, having your planet blow'd up and basically being kicked off out of your homes wont leave you very happy. 200K years definitely won't numb that kind of pain. Plus even though the TNG episode says they probably weren't conquerors it actually does still leave it ambiguous as we have no idea what actually happened. As you stated no Iconian weapons were ''discovered.'' Just because I can walk down a street in New York City and not see a nuclear missile doesn't mean the US doesn't have any. "Contagion" and later "To the Death" never give any evidence about the Iconians as a people just showing what people would do with their tech. "Power Corrupts."

* Not to mention that even in 2410 it's unlikely that the Empire would accept a non-Klingon chancellor in the event of non-Klingon player characters.

** An alternative is that the Iconians and the Preservers ''were'' members of the same race, but that the Iconisn faction ended up going a high-transhumanist route, ultimately turning into the shape we now know them as. After all, ''Star Trek'' does tend to be rather sceptical about significant transhumanism.

* As of Season Nine, this seems to be jossed! It turned out that [[spoiler: assistant E'genn was an Undine during the invasion of Earth Spacedock.]]

** {{Jossed}} by Thomas the Cryptic Cat with regards to the updated Uniform code for 2410. Basically there is a standardized uniform, but since the player character is a high ranking Admiral by end game [[ScrewTheRulesIHavePower they're allowed to do what ever they want.]]