Maquis (Star Trek) Maquis (Star Trek) In the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th-century paramilitary organization/terrorist group (like the World War II Maquis in the French Resistance and the Spanish Maquis that emerged in the Spanish Civil War) first introduced in the 1994 episode "The Maquis" of the television series "", and subsequently appeared in "" and "". The Maquis story debuted when three "Star Trek" television shows running from the late 1980s to 2001 took place in the same fictional science-fiction universe at the same time in the future (The 2360s-70s). As a result, the Maquis story was
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