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The Maquis was an Alpha Quadrant-based paramilitary organisation whose members were Federation citizens. By 2372 Maquis members were no longer considered by the Federation to be Federation citizens and were treated as outlaws [DS9: For the Cause]. The organisation formed at the colonies which felt threatened by Cardassian hostility as a result of the border changes agreed in the Federation-Cardassian treaty of 2370. The members of the Maquis were disaffected colonial residents who felt the Federation had abandoned them by agreeing the Treaty. Many members of the Maquis had been victims of Cardassian violence. They all felt the intention was to force them from their homes and they chose to fight rather than leave. A number of Starfleet officers sympathised with the Maquis cause and joined their ranks. Skirmishes and guerilla tactics were the hallmark of Maquis resistance.

The Maquis became an organised resistance force, with each person belonging to a cell, with only the leader of the cell knowing the whereabouts of the other cells.

One of the Maquis commanders was Chakotay, who was born at a Federation colony on the Cardassian/Bajor frontier. He joined the Maquis when his homeworld came under attack by the Cardassians. In 2371, while fleeing from a Cardassian warship, he was swept into the Delta Quadrant along with his Maquis raider ship and his crew. USS Voyager was sent in search of the missing ship which also had aboard Tuvok who was secretly working for Starfleet, but Voyager was also hurled into the Delta Quadrant, the force of the displacement wave killing several crewmen. The two crews co-operated in searching for two crewmembers who remained missing after
[Repression]
the Caretaker abducted both crews in order to carry out genetic compatibility experiments on them. The missing persons were Harry Kim from Voyager and B'Elanna Torres from the Maquis. During battle with the Kazon-Ogla, who sought to capture the powerful Caretaker's Array for themselves, Chakotay's ship was destroyed and Janeway reluctantly destroyed the Array to prevent its capture - this stranded both crews in the Delta Quadrant. Janeway invited Chakotay to replace her dead First Officer, and the Maquis joined Voyager's crew, forming nearly one quarter of the personnel. At the outset it was agreed that the combined crew would form a Starfleet crew, following Federation rules and principles.

The Maquis crewmembers wore their Maquis badges of rank on the righthand side of their Starfleet uniform collars. Starfleet and Maquis Ranks includes illustrations of the rank badges/pips.

The following includes information about particular Maquis crewmembers.

 

B'Elanna Torres
Half-Klingon and half-human female; senior Maquis officer; Chakotay's chief engineer. She had attended Starfleet Academy but left. She became Chief Engineer aboard USS Voyager and in 2377 married Tom Paris, who had also briefly attended the Academy.

[Caretaker]

 

Tuvok
Vulcan male; senior Maquis officer; he was secretly working for Starfleet and had infiltrated the Maquis. His secret role was revealed when USS Voyager met the Maquis ship near the Caretaker's Array. He then rejoined Janeway's crew as her tactical officer.

[Repression]

 


Seska as Bajoran
[Worst Case Scenario]
Seska
Cardassian female, surgically altered to look like a Bajoran to enable her to infiltrate the Maquis. She was romantically involved with Chakotay until she assisted the Kazon against Voyager.

Seska as Cardassian
[#30 Alliances]

She escaped Voyager, became the lover/advisor of the Kazon-Nistrim leader named Culluh and bore his child. About a month before she fled Voyager she rewrote Tuvok's security training program called Insurrection Alpha in order to ensnare and murder the crew (see below) - Tuvok and Paris become trapped in it in 2373 [#67 Worst Case Scenario].

On leaving Voyager she reverted to her Cardassian physiology. She helped the Kazon-Nistrim capture Voyager and was killed as the ship was being retaken.

 

Lt. Ayala
Human male; Chakotay's righthand man. His duties aboard Voyager are various and involve duties on the bridge at various stations including Ops, Tactical/Security and even the captain's chair in [#19 Twisted]. Sometimes he acts as a security officer e.g. [#32 Meld], [#143 Fury], and goes on away missions e.g. [#20 The 37's], [#59 Unity].

[Repression]

 

Lt. Hogan
Human male; engineer. He was killed on the planet Hanon IV by a land eel in 2372/3O, approximately stardate 50032, [#42 Basics, Part Two]. Most of Hogan's skeleton was discovered by two Voth scientists approximately stardate 50899, [#65 Distant Origin]. Hogan's remains showed that humans and Voth shared 47 genetic markers, tending to support the Distant Origin theory - the theory that the Voth originated on Earth and not in the Delta Quadrant.

[Investigations]

 

Michael Jonas
Human male; engineer. Sympathetic to Seska, he kept in contact with her after she left Voyager and acted as the Kazon-Nistrim's spy. He sabotaged Voyager's engines as part of a plot to lure Voyager to a planetary ambush but was unmasked by the various actions of Tuvok, Janeway, Paris and Neelix. He was accidentally killed while trying to kill Neelix.

[Investigations]

 

Lon Suder
Male Betazoid, uniquely for a telepathic race, unable to sense other's emotions; engineer. He murdered crewman Frank Darwin, was confined to secure quarters for the rest of the voyage, but when the Kazon-Nistrim captured the ship found himself free and the only one of the original crew on board. In 2372/3 he died heroically, killed by the Kazon as he helped regain the ship.

[#32 Meld]

 

Ensign Jackson is a former Maquis crewmember aboard Voyager who is mentioned in [#11 State of Flux] but not seen on tv. In 2371, on stardate 48658, Jackson helps Seska, while some fellow former Maquis divert Neelix, to steal mushrooms from the galley so that she can make Chakotay his favourite soup.
Seska tells Chakotay how she has managed to bring him mushroom soup

 

In 2371, stardate 48846.5, [#16 Learning Curve], these four Maquis crewmembers were picked out as having particular problems adjusting to life on a Starfleet vessel. They were instructed by Tuvok in the finer points of Starfleet procedure. The recruits were rebellious and hard to handle but when Tuvok bent his logic in order to rescue Gerron from danger led to a new understanding between teacher and pupils. Dalby had lived on the Bajoran frontier, and joined the Maquis to kill as many Cardassians as possible after some Cardassians raped and killed his lover.

[Repression]
Chell: Bolian male.

[#16 Learning Curve]
Kenneth Dalby: human male.

[#16 Learning Curve]
Mariah Henley: human female.

[#16 Learning Curve]
Gerron: Bajoran male.

 

Kurt Bendera
Human male; engineer. In 2372, on stardate 49337.4, [#30 Alliances], he was killed in Engineering when a console exploded in his face during a Kazon attack on the ship. He once saved the life of B'Elanna Torres near the Cardassian border.

[#30 Alliances]

 

In 2372, stardate 49690.1, [#41 Resolutions], after she and Chakotay contracted a fatal virus whose effects were held at bay only by something on a particular planet or in its atmosphere, Janeway handed command of Voyager to Tuvok. She and Chakotay began a new life on a planet they christened New Earth. The loss of the Captain and First Officer was felt keenly by Starfleet and Maquis crewmembers alike:
Kim: "B'Elanna, I've been talking with some of the Starfleet crew. They're not happy about what happened. I was wondering, how are the Maquis taking it?"
Torres: "How do you think they're taking it? This isn't a Starfleet issue. It's affecting everyone."

[Resolutions]

 

In 2373, stardate 50953, [#67 Worst Case Scenario], the crew discovered and began playing a holoprogram called "Insurrection Alpha" (security access code 'Tuvok 4774') which Tuvok had written as a tactical training program for junior security officers to prepare them for the possiblity of a Maquis mutiny. At a staff meeting Chakotay reported that the holothe program had been accessed forty-seven times by thirty-three different crewmembers. Tuvok had not finished writing the program and thought he had deleted the program after the Starfleet and Maquis crews began working together and the possibility of mutiny became unlikely. Encouraged by Janeway and the rest of the senior staff, Tuvok and Paris re-open the program in order to finish writing it, but discover that the real Seska had got into Tuvok's program on stardate 48671, about a month before she left Voyager, and re-programmed the holodeck to shutdown once Tuvok opened the narrative parameters file. She finished writing the story with murderous intent and sealed the holodeck. Janeway managed to rewrite aspects of the holoprogram giving Tuvok time to devise a way to kill the holo-Seska and shut down the program.

[Worst Case Scenario]
Holo-Chakotay, Maquis leader, now in charge of USS Voyager.

[Worst Case Scenario]
Holo-Chakotay, on Voyager's bridge, confronts holo-Janeway who is in a shuttlecraft.

[Worst Case Scenario]
Holo-Chakotay phasers holo-Janeway.

[Worst Case Scenario]
Holo-Chakotay with lover holo-Seska.


left to right: Tuvok, O'Donnell, Carlson
[Worst Case Scenario]
The real Crewman O'Donnell and Carlson (rank unknown) are not seen but holograms of them appear in [#67 Worst Case Scenario]. They help their former captain, holo-Chakotay, seize control of Voyager's bridge. When (the real) Paris runs the holoprogram he tackles holo-O'Donnell to the floor and is subdued by holo-Ayala who pulls him off and points a phaser at him. Holo-Chakotay then orders holo-Carlson, holo-O'Donnell and holo-Ayala to take the captured Starfleet officers to the brig. Holo-Carlson is later seen on guard in the brig.

 

In 2373 the Maquis were defeated, despite some aid from the Klingon government which lent them 30 class-4 cloaking devices. The Maquis were wiped out almost to a man by a joint Cardassian-Dominion offensive. A few survivors, led by Michael Eddington who had been a former Starfleet officer, were rescued from Athos IV although Eddington was killed during the rescue operation [DS9: Blaze of Glory]. Chakotay learned the news in 2374, [#83 Hunters], and relayed it to Torres.
[Hunters]
Chakotay reads the news of the massacre.
Lt. Ayala is behind him in the background.

 

NOTES
  1. The symbol forming the left border of the page background is the Maquis patch. Source: Encylopaedia.
  2. I chose a natural-looking fabric weave for the main page background as the Maquis did/do not of course wear Starfleet uniform.
  3. The Star Trek writers took the name from the French Resistance group of the Second World War called the Maquis, and "seeded" the back-story into the two Star Trek series currently being aired so that tv viewers would be familiar with the Maquis when [Star Trek Voyager] started being broadcast, especially as the opening [Star Trek Voyager] story, [#1 and #2 Caretaker], starts with Chakotay's Maquis ship being pursued by Cardassians. The "seeded" stories were [TNG: Journey's End], [TNG: Pre-emptive Strike], [DS9: The Maquis, Parts 1 and 2].