That's kind of like sending the Dalai Lama to negotiate with radical Muslims, isn't it? They're both really religious, but...
Well, the Bajorans seem tolerant of
other people's religions, so it can't go
that badly. Bajoran religion seems to be a bit more like ancient religions that didn't proselytize; if you're not a member of the dominant Bajoran planetary culture, it doesn't apply to you.
And at least having a Honiani or six around to catch on when the (overwhelmingly atheist, it seems) Federation officials are completely underestimating the importance of local religious views... It can't make things worse, in my opinion.
Even after we 're done suppressing the Syndicate, it will still be able to sell the Cardassians (and everybody else, really) the equivalent of a PC and Space VPN. If it's publicly available, assume the other guys have it.
Part of the issue is that it may take high powered transmission beams operated deliberately to send messages across interstellar distances.
See, "if it's publicly available, assume the other guys have it" is a reasonably
safe way to go about doing, for example, intelligence work. Because you don't want to assume you can keep a secret known to literally your entire nation, that would be foolish. At the same time, though, it's pretty obvious that we in the Federation government do NOT have clear information on things that are presumably common public knowledge in some of the neutral species around us. I'm pretty sure the general Sydraxian public knows
exactly why they keep raiding us- but until recently, we had little or no idea what had happened. The Dawiar knew immediately why they attacked the
Polaris, but we didn't find out for about 12-18 months. And so it goes.
In intelligence work you plan for capabilities, not intentions or even realities. The Cardassians are
capable of knowing any publicly available fact about us that they choose to know, with little difficulty. That doesn't mean that they
do know all those facts. Among other things because they may not even know what questions they need to ask.
And then they shall grind themselves to dust on the unyielding anvil that is the Federation, while the mighty Romulan Navy strikes them from the rear like the furious hammer of smith does onto hot iron.
At the end of that day, after the dead have been mourned and this grand victory celebrated, it shall be the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire who will live to tell the galaxy of this grand battle, while silence shall be the only song sung in the empty Hall of Heroes on Qo'noS from now on, until even Kahless the Unforgettable shall be Unforgettable no more.
Yuk.
Do we have a genocidaire crawling out of the woodwork again?
Andorian porn? Get a pornstar who looks like Nash?
There are billions of Andorians, and Nash is famous, and has been for about ten years. I bet there's already a zhen who's a dead ringer for her, doing "sexy space captain boldly goes" parodies.
Actually, I bet there are
several of them.
