Maquis Forces International (MFI) is the first completely Internet-based Star Trek® fan organization, based on the renegade faction seen on various episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. This article is being rewritten at Star Trek/temp. ...
MFI was developed as an alliance of Maquis clubs and individuals around the world for the purpose of the free exchange of ideas, information, and friendship. Like their fictional counterparts on Star Trek who went renegade from Starfleet, most of MFI's original membership left established fandom organizations in search of a "better banner to fly under". Being Maquis gives the members the freedom to act and play as they choose without an organization dictating how they run their chapters and eliminates the need for politics. See: Maquis (World War II) for the French anti-Nazi resistance Maquis (Spain) for the Spanish anti-Franco guerrilla acting after the Spanish Civil War. ...
Maquis Forces International has been in existence since November 19th, 1995. November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The internationalforce would be decreasingly capable of coping with higher levels of aggression involving several countries, up to a point describable as true international civil war.
Internationalforces of a non-fighting variety could be utilized as adjuncts of the pacific settlement procedures by the organs of political investigation and pacific settlement, as the Security Council and Assembly used United Nations forces in Lebanon and, for that matter, in the Congo.
New forces could be set into motion which we cannot now comprehend, leading in the direction of constitutional and organic development that might bear as little resemblance to the first stage as the United States system in 1961 bears to the thirteen colonies under the Articles of Confederation.
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