well i didnt know the full Infinity storyline but it does make sence (although i dont see how the borg could assimilate earth in the weakened state after endgame and Voyager's "lets make the borg weaker so they are beatable so we can pump ratings")
MP As for the feds having BoP ST:3 and 4 it wasnt exactly a federation ship mearly commandered by a starfleet admiral (who had a warrent out for his arrest 
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If your going to have a cloak on the ship you need to explain how the treaty of algeron was bypassed because right now i dont buy fed ships with cloaks seems too "fanboyish"
saying this i do really like the design and if your going to scale it to any size i say it should intrepid size as its a good medium size and gives room for the repair crews and the pilots aswell as having space for your mercs i mean marines
The Borg were not in a weakened state. The queen killed was another clone, the "Alpha" still lives...again, it is a long story. The complex was destroyed, but the borg did discover the transwarp conduit the Breen used to attack Earth and connected to it...Voila, instant invasion. It is all in the preamble to the story, Ill post the preamble if you want sometime.
There is an entire episode on the Treaty of Algeron. But before I tell you about the episode, let me post this canon info....
A secret amendment added to the treaty in 2371 allowed for the limited supervised use of at least one cloaking device on loan from the Romulans. Operation of the cloaking device was to be limited to the Gamma Quadrant. In return, the Romulans would receive all information the Federation obtained on the Defiant's voyages into the Gamma Quadrant, most importantly any information concerning the Dominion. As such, the USS Defiant was the only Federation ship to be permanently equipped with a cloaking device. (DS9: "The Search, Part I", "Visionary") As you can see, amendments can be made to the treaty with the Romulan's permission. The Romulans have ALWAYS allowed the SFMC to use cloaking technology if needed, but only approved by Romulans directly, and only if the SFMC fleet is active during a time of crisis, and that crisis warrants use of the device...the Romulans, in turn, are provided information on the fleet...its numbers, locations, personell, etc....and no cloaking ships can operate in Romulan territory. An amendment was added to allow the Infinity to operate in Romulan territory with a Romulan escort present. That is why the SFMC is deactivated when a war ends...according to the treaty, it cannot be active during times of peace. So, here are the rules...
1) Only the Infinity is allowed a permanent cloak installed. All other cloaking systems have to be temporary, so they can be uninstalled when the ship is mothballed or stored.
2) Only the Infinity is allowed to operate in Romulan space, with an escort. All other cloak-capable ships must remain outside the Neutral Zone.
3) The Romulan Empire must be provided information on all ships that have cloaks installed, thier locations, and thier personell. They must approve of the cloak use for every ship when it is commisioned.
4) The SFMC must be active only in a time of war or extreme crisis. It must be deactivated when the crisis abates.
5) The devices cannot be modified soas to make the ships undetectable by Romulans.
6) No Starfleet personell can operate 3rd Fleet vessels, nor can they use 3rd Fleet technology. The Third fleet must remain under control of the President of the Federation Council.
This is not the only tech that the 3rd Fleet can use due to treaties that the main fleet cannot. Drones is another example....At Khitomer, the Federation banned the use of drones, but the Klingons, Gorn and the Third Fleet were allowed limited use. The SFMC still uses drones in combat, though the regular fleet hasnt used them in years.
Fighters were banned after the war with Cardassia ended. The huge stockpile of Federation and Cardassian fighters were destroyed....but the 2nd Order and the Third fleet were allowed to keep thier fighters for use in emergencies. Fighters inflicted over 70 percent of the fatalities and 75 percent of the losses in that war. (this is why you dont see the Hudon type ships in the Cardassian fleet, or the Ark Royal type ships in the Federation fleet...no fighters, no need for them. There are carriers however in the 2nd order and the Third fleet).
The Parmel treaty with the Gorn limited the use of Transporters as a weapon to warships only. Transporter bombs are equipped on most SFMC vessels.
There is a universal ban on mines. All of the major powers signed the treaty. The loophole was weapons platforms, which the Cardassians continued to produce, and the Dominion never signed the treaty of course....the use of mines to protect the wormhole was actually a violation of the treaty, but all that signed agreed it was necessary. All treaty participants recieved the location of the mines...except Cardassia, of course.
3rd Fleet vessels also carry Marines, use sensor damping cloaks, wild weasel and suicide carts (shuttles rigged with EM or explosives), grenades, micro-photon personals (very large single shot personell torp launchers) and phaser cannons (hand held repeater cannons) and plasma shock generators (to disable ships), all items that are not used generally by the main fleet for quite some time now.
Just a long heads up on some of the tech the Marines use that is not used by Starfleet. Note how quite alot of it is in SFC...the fleet used most of it at one time, depite thier mission of peace....but decided later to stop using it or treaties forbid it. Only the Marine Corps continues to use such items.
Starfleet intelligence has actually attempted to spy on the SFMC, to no avail...or asked them to provide cloaking tech for a covert mission, also denied. So, SI had to resort to developing the technology on thier own....and got caught, of course.
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