How about a rival for the Federation ( Not an Enemy)

I posted this on priorityonepodcast.com but I wanted to see what you all think.

I would love to have another group that acts as a rival of the Federation. This group of worlds would be organized in a way very similar to the Federation but disagrees with the Federation over The Prime Directive. This other organization is not against the Federation and generally gets along well with the Federation and likes most of what it does, but they think that it is the duty of more powerful worlds to help less advanced ones. Maybe they have a good reason for it. Perhaps they started saving worlds from the Borg and found that it was something that they wanted to expand on.

Star Trek likes to pull from current events. Issues over whether superpowers should interfere with developing nations is something that is debated very often.

Note that conflict between this group and the Federation would be very rare but could happen from time to time. If the right ( or wrong) two captains from each side meet we could see some fighting. This new group would not be added as a way to see big space fights but instead would involved lots of dialogue heavy encounters. I would love to watch someone like Picard debate someone from this other group over a cup of Earl Grey.

EDIT: I should have mentioned this but this is for Star Trek as a whole (TV, Books etc). Not so much for STO.