Edited sentence: Some critics feel that the Maquis was a "cheap" concept, which took the custom of Star Trek having modern day political parallels too far.To some, the Maquis' rebellion against the Cardassians, which occurred in spite of the Federation's willingness to relocate the inhabitants of the ceded planets, seemed irrational and petty ; in any case, this is a rather short-sighted view of the human condition since there is plentiful evidence in actual Earth history that people are often passionately unwilling to leave their land and their homes, no matter what recompense is offered to them