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[@Blue Demon] Digging has revealed that the Presedent of the Federation at the time was Min Zife

"2373-2379: Min Zife (Bolian male)" - a list of presedents from the book [i]Articles of the Federation[/i]

This information was not what I was looking for while digging.... I was reading about Gorn

I can see no posible way that a Gorn would have been in the Federation in 2374. they did briefly fight along side The Federation in 2375 in the final months of the Dominion War (according to one graphic novel and the book mentioned above) but before hand they had been in a civil war for an unknown period of time. 

They also didnt like The Federation at all, and later in 2381 they joined an alliance as an opposing force to the United Federation of Planets and its allies. The pact consisted of the Romulan Star Empire, Tzenkethi Coalition, Breen Confederacy, Gorn Hegemony, Tholian Assembly and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya, all of which had hostile relations with the Federation and all of which had typically previously maintained xenophobic and isolationist policies.[sup][url=http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Typhon_Pact]Ref[/url][/sup]

But if [@Chev] can come up with a good argument, like he did with the Romulan (not too many of them in The Federation, hehe) then it'll be ok. it'll have to be very convincing though
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I can always do a different race :) I just thought it would be interesting to see a Gorn running around on the ship xD I was thinking of doing a different race anyway.