The Final Collapse of the United Federation of Planets.
Isolationalism.
It was one of the many things all the cultures that made up the Federation had in common, and it wasn't until the 24th century that Starfleet and the rest of the Federation got their first view of isolationalism, but that it came from the Vulcans, one of the most peace loving races in the galaxy, was more startling. Their view was that mixing with aliens was destroying the cultural purity of their race. This group of Vulcans tried to use the feared weapon, the Stone of Gol, a psychic resonator to kill with thoughts of violence, to make their point.
The Vulcan isolationists were rounded up, but like a weed they kept growing and many started to materialise out of nowhere, and it wasn't just on Vulcan, it was also on other founding worlds, Earth, Andor, Vulcan, and Tellar and even on Earth, where in the past after the Xindi attack in the 22nd century where the Terra Prime movement started to become popular, and terrorism against aliens pushing for Earth's isolation became popular, so too in the Federation did such values become popular themselves. As the years passed, and the Federation moved further and further away from the charter the isolationist groups grew and grew, using the growing fading of the values the Federation charter brought up, and starting wars with more older and advanced empires, the wish for isolationism grew more and more. Worlds like Trill were also affected, and there were increasing voices raising in protest for how the Federation was becoming corrupt.
The first strike of the isolationists came from Vulcan and Betazed, where the new leaders were pro isolationists, and they broke away from the charter of the Federation. With two of the most influential members gone, one of which was a founding member of the Federation, all the others started to withdraw as well, the chain reaction acting like a row of dominos. The most surprising move came from the human race themselves, and they completely broke away from the Federation charter. With the founding members gone, the Federation collapsed on itself, unable to even rally any more races to help support it.
After the collapse, all the other races maintained diplomatic relations because they were so used to it, and that didn't and would probably never change, trade, and commerce, but that was all. The races that had been a part of the United Federation of Planets, simply went their own ways.
But one good thing came out of the Federations collapse; it meant new changes, new challenges. The Federation had lasted for centuries, but the Federation had not been a federation for a long time, and the final collapse left them the way they had been the way before they joined, in some ways hostile, but now they were more enlightened with the views of other races.
It was a priceless gift.
Sorry its so short, and sorry for how much time has passed since the last update, but I've been racking my mind for any way to make the story end properly. I found it by watching the Next generation episode ' Gambit ' where there was a Vulcan isolationist movement, and I thought, if that existed on Vulcan, what would happen if larger groups merely withdrew from the Federation?
