Save for Torres and Chakotay, none of the Maquis on Voyager have Starfleet backgrounds

Most of Voyager's Maquis crew, were Bajorans who joined the organisation because they wanted an excuse to kill people, (primarily, but not necessarily exclusively Cardassians) and then use the Occupation as a means of avoiding responsibility for their actions.

There never has been, and likely never will be another species within Star Trek, who I despise with the same degree of intensity as the Bajorans. The reason why is because they consistently used their status as victims to justify ethically negative behaviour, when in reality, most of the time they wanted to engage in said negative behaviour purely for its' own sake, and the citation of victimhood was merely used to allow them to get away with it. No matter what they did, they always had an excuse.

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