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ParanoidObsessive posted...

"The Maquis and Starfleet personnel have to work together to get back home, and while the Maquis COULD suck it up and take a subordinate position in the crew the Starfleet crew members weren't likely to be all that willing to follow the orders of an outsider/mutineer who forced their way into command, so even the Maquis would be willing to follow Janeway."

From a pragmatic standpoint it makes sense that it would be a more Starfleet than Maquis crew. It is their ship, they outnumber the Maquis something like 3-to-1 and they are more disciplined, organized and professional. I am not really complaining about the direction of the crew hierarchy in that regard, I just wanted a lot more friction as the Maquis crew struggled to assimilate with the happy-go-lucky dandies of Starfleet.

It should have been a huge part of the first few seasons and we should have seen real growth on both sides as they both adjusted to each other's presence. Maybe the Starfleet officers learn to bend the rules a little more while the Maquis learn discipline and how to follow a rigid command structure. They explored these concepts maybe 2 or 3 times in the whole series and the crew became so homogenized that one of those times they had to explore it as a hypothetical tactical simulation because at that point it was so preposterous that the Maquis crew was anything but Starfleet. Hell for most of the series them being Maquis was so irrelevant that I totally forgot about it.