How to DEFEAT the Federation

Today we explore the methods that would work best when trying to take down that interstellar behemoth called the United Federation of Planets. These are more of just concepts of how to approach the conflict rather than descriptive battle tactics as that sort of thing goes well beyond my experience...
But hey, I think I did a good job on the thumbnail, right?

This is Part Five of a Federation series I'm working on exploring the different aspects of the UFP.

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This Video is for educational purposes with commentary.

[rrjjmrf]

The Borg, Dominion, Romulans and Quark would like to know your location

[Jawmax]

Everyone seems to forget how a group parasitic aliens almost took over the Federation by controlling high ranking members of Starfleet.

[Dissent]

Easiest way to defeat the Federation, historically? Get them to sign a terrible treaty with you!

[Palpatine]

8:45 - Federation adapts quickly. Wasnt it a Mr Eddington that told a certain Sisko that the Federation was like the Borg - it assimilates you - BUT LEAST THE BORG TELL YOU STRAIGHT AWAY

[gargamellenoir]

The beauty of planting spies at the highest levels of Starfleet is that more than half of the admirals are already destructive maniacs anyway. Your spies can operate as brazenly as they want and they'll still be seen as better admirals.

[RAClaus]

I always got the feeling that the Dominion was too hasty when it came to the Federation. They should have put their changeling infiltrators in the Federation Council and slowly began to dictate and alter Federation policy, leading up the Dominion "joining" the Federation. In truth, it would be the Federation joining the Dominion without ever having fired a shot.

[kevinnitta]

You would need to eliminate Section 31 to defeat the UFP. Section 31 does the thing the rest of the UFP can't or won't do.

[rembrandtify]

It would be child's play to defeat the Fed in the TNG timeframe. Attack them when Jordi and Data are telling Picard "We can't do that, it would violate the Prime Directive."

[sabletooth]

The Federation is incredibly easy to take down from the inside. The Dominion got incredibly close, but not because of its spies' direct actions, nor because of their military strength capable to overwhelm the Federation (though if Sisko hadn't closed down the wormhole, the Dominion would've easily overrun the Alpha quadrant powers).

It was the paranoia they planted into the brass of the Federation. In the season 4 two-parter Homefront/Paradise Lost, Earth dodged the massive bullet of a coup d'Etat and a military junta taking over as Starfleet admiral Leyton actually sabotaged Earth systems in order to have the Federation president give him the ability to implement measures such as martial law. If Earth had become a military dictatorship under Leyton, I'm sure that would've brought the Federation to the brink of falling apart very rapidly, especially if Leyton had implemented the same rules on other core worlds.

[ashameimaru]

How to really defeat the Federation: Take away the beer.

Without the beer, they can't do the "Hold my beer. I got this." tactic.

[LoreReloaded]

Oh wow..thank you for the shout out! :) Didnt expect that..pretty cool

[StYxXx]

"Try to divide them", "bureaucratic federation", "induce squabbles", "cracks", "discredit them"... wait, is this about Star Trek or the EU and Brexit? :D

[XanderKHD]

Okay, with THIS sudden video not to long after the "Why NOT to Join the Federation" video, are we sure that Ric wasn't replaced by Rik from the mirror universe? XD

[jaywaii]

Minor correction, the Borg reached sector 001 in both of their attempts (and were defeated both times).

[FekLeyrTarg]

General Chang's simulated campaign against the Federation in Klingon Academy uses some of the strategies described in this video, most notably attacking unity among the member races.

[ianmurdock]

That was a scary, yet incredibly accurate plan to defeat the Federation. Don't try to make friends, just get it done.

[maaderllin]

"The federation adapts. They have the experiences of all the member races to draw from"

Looks like he's talking about the Borg XD

[thexsoar]

The only way to defeat the Federation is to somehow remove their plot armor. It is the only glue holding the Federation together.

[The_Zilli]

how to defeat the federation - let alex kurtzman run the franchise.

[rougenaxela]

9:51 "plus, star trek without the federation?" You know, I've always thought it would be interesting to have a whole series that was from the perspective of a crew on a non-federation ship.