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The Maquis are major antagonists in the Star Trek franchise, notably in Seasons 2 to 5 of Deep Space Nine. They were a terrorist organisation made up of former Federation citizens.
History[]
The Maquis were formed in response to the peace treaty between the Federation and the Cardassians, which established a new border that left several Federation colonies in Cardassian space. Angered at the Cardassians' belligerence towards the colonists, which included arming their own people in the Demilitarised Zone between the two territories, the Maquis planted a bomb aboard a Cardassian ship departing Deep Space 9, which they believed was involved in weapons smuggling. They also kidnapped Gul Dukat in a failed attempt to get information from him. The Maquis had many sympathisers in Starfleet, who left to join the group, including Cal Hudson who was one of their first leaders and led an attack on a Cardassian weapons depot that was driven off by personnel from Deep Space 9.
The Enterprise was later forced to intercede when the Maquis attacked a Cardassian ship. The Federation was concerned that the Maquis had moved beyond self-defence and were in danger of starting a war with the Cardassians. Plans were made to lure a group of Maquis ships into an ambush by convincing them the Cardassians were smuggling in biogenic weapons. However, Ro Laren, who had gone undercover to spring the trap, ended up defecting to the Maquis and warning them of the ambush.
When weapons were stolen from Deep Space 9 by a man named Boone, it was initially believed he was Maquis. After a member of the Maquis visited Doctor Bashir and revealed Boone wasn't one of them, it transpired the incident had been set up by the Cardassians to discredit Starfleet. Another former Starfleet officer, Tom Riker, posing as his counterpart Commander Will Riker, later came to Deep Space 9 and stole the Defiant. With a Maquis crew on board, Riker aimed to attack a secret Obsidian Order shipyard in the Orias system, only to find himself heavily outnumbered. To preserve his crew, he surrendered to Dukat and Commander Sisko, who promised his crew would be handed over to the Federation.
After an encounter with a Cardassian ship, a Maquis vessel commanded by Chakotay was hijacked to the Delta Quadrant by a being known as the Caretaker. The crew ended up teaming up with the crew of USS Voyager, who had been similarly abducted. After their ship was destroyed during a battle with the Kazon, and with them cut off from the Federation, the Maquis crew ended up being inducted into Voyager's crew as provisional Starfleet officers.
Meanwhile, back in the Alpha Quadrant, Deep Space 9's senior Starfleet security officer Michael Eddington had begun working for the Maquis. Using Kassidy Yates, who had been smuggling medical supplies to them, as a diversion to keep Sisko occupied, Eddington managed to steal a set of industrial strength replicators bound for the Cardassians before deserting to the Maquis. Sisko spent several months pursuing him and discovered him carrying out a scheme to poison the atmosphere of Cardassian colonies in the Demilitarised Zone, making them hostile to Cardassians but habitable by humans. By now, the Maquis were setting up refugee colonies for people who had lost their homeworlds, convincing them they would win them back. Sisko reversed Eddington's plan and made a Maquis colony poisonous to humans but habitable by Cardassians, prompting Eddington to surrender himself and the bioweapons.
Despite this, the Maquis felt their strength was growing and they would soon be able to declare themselves an independent state. This ended when the Cardassians allied with the Dominion, who immediately set out to wipe out the Maquis, who were massacred by Jem'Hadar. A message from Eddington's wife Rebecca implied the Maquis had launched cloaked missiles at Cardassia but this was a ruse to trick Sisko into helping Eddington rescue a group of Maquis survivors, with Eddington being killed covering their escape. Although Sisko speculated that there were still Maquis out there, no evidence of this emerged, and by the following year it was believed that all the Maquis were either dead or Federation prisoners.
Some years later however, a former Maquis member, Teero Anaydis, who had been expelled for unethical brainwashing operations, managed to activate a sleeper programme he had placed in the mind of Voyager officer Lieutenant Commander Tuvok when he was undercover with the Maquis. Teero tried to get Tuvok to turn the Maquis crewmembers aboard Voyager against their fellows and form a new Maquis cell on the ship. Although this led to the brainwashed Maquis taking over Voyager for a time, Tuvok eventually shook off the conditioning and returned the others to normal.
