>>Honestly if you stack the factions against each other, the Federation
>>comes off as the most evil of them all.
>
>Nope, nope, nope. I am not going to get pulled into the undying
>fandom "the Federation is the bad guys in Star Trek" thing. No
>how, no way.

I'm sensing a very old fandom war here, of which I am entirely unaware.

Anyway, the nice part is they seem to be moving in the direction of wrapping up the Fed/Klingon war, so that will be potentially interesting.