Maybe Baryon sweeps are more critical to ginormous starships like the Enterprise, or possibly that facility is special in that it can complete the sweep in a really short time thus being a convenient perk to those ships close enough to use it. Voyager could maybe have done their own baryon sweep while they were parked for one of their refits.
It's not a warship though, It's an "escort vessel."
Not at all, Taking a civilian passenger liner and converting it into a armed auxiliary cruiser mean it is no longer a civilian passenger liner.
No, it was a passenger liner, once converter to a armed auxiliary cruiser (or a raider) it no longer was a civilian passenger liner.
Actual quote (with spelling error) "passager liners on the other hand (actual passager liners) aren't sent to engage foreign battleships.
Starship Mine implies that most starships go much longer without getting Baryon sweeps, the Enterprise apparently travels at warp excessively compared to everyone else in Starfleet. There is a line saying they've done more warp hours in five years than the average ship does in ten.
Hmm, even on DS9, in an episode written by military expert Ron Moore no less, we get a warship defined as being a Spartan environment with "no luxuries" at all. This despite the fact that modern day warships are downright luxurious even by the standards of a Galaxy class ship. After all, it's pretty standard for a modern day warship of any size to have multiple recreational lounges for the officers and crew to hang out in off-duty, Starfleet ships seem only to have a mess hall, or Ten-Forward.
The theory I read is the Voyager was making a series of "dashes."
I don't think so, especially considering the "battle fleet" in question was primarily intended to combat the Borg. Sisko is basically suggesting that Defiant and its sisters would have been their OWN fleet, like some kind of special forces division within Starfleet to deal with the Borg. Indeed, the fact that the Borg turned out to be something of a paper tiger is the whole reason that plan never came to fruition; it turns out that a ship that has no science labs and no ability to [tech] the Borg to death probably wouldn't be all that useful against them.
Strictly speaking, Starfleet does not believe in "ships of war." It's really big on pushing the idea that its weapons are for defensive purposes only, and that their primary method for resolving interstellar conflicts is with words, compromise and reason. They use their weapons to defend themselves, but they their main armament is words.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
And if naval guns were mounted on her, she'd could be a auxiliary cruiser.
This is consistent with police and security personnel, but historically this has not actually been the case for militaries.
Normally yes, but Star Trek shows us a level of technology and the widespread availability thereof that makes this no longer the case, where military technology has long since passed the point of diminishing returns where even a massive R&D effort to improve it would only net a very small increase in lethality. This means a dedicated combatant isn't likely to have more powerful weapons than a multirole craft, nor is it likely to have stronger shields or armor. That technology is basically plug-and-play and is widely available to any government who can afford it. So even a group of misfits like the Maquis can basically give larger organizations a run for their money.
I meant as far as putting the lives of civilians ahead of their own lives. There are some armed forces that construct rules of engagement to at least limit civilian casualties under some circumstances, but not all of them do, or historically have. In modern times, it's actually debatable the extent to which those who CLAIM to avoid civilian casualties actually bother to do so in practice, or for that matter, whether or not they even should. Certainly the concept of "collateral damage" in military science carries with it the implication that civilian deaths are basically just part of the grim business of warfare and that going through the motions of trying to avoid this is more politics than priority.
As Tenacy is (I think) trying to push as an idea, not having "the good stuff" is exactly what makes them research vessels. If you wanted to outfit a research vessel as a combat platform, it's apparently not all that hard to do, but most people have no reason to do that and aren't looking for a fight. Carrying a heavy armament is probably a provocative action that draws more attention than it should, and in most cases probably isn't worth the high costs involved.
While this is true, it's never suggested that the Maquis purchased those weapons illegally. Even Quark was never actually prosecuted for his part in selling weapons to the Maquis, and they paid for them in cash from an interested buyer.
And Mayweather suggests in "Fortunate Son" that one of the first things freighter captains do when taking to the stars is upgrade their weapons. Of course, the ECS ships can't generally afford the high-grade particle guns their competitors are using, but there's nothing structural about that limitation, it's just a matter of cost (the Nausican pirates, for example, manage to afford them just fine).
