Not really. Federation would respect Bajor doing that and Starfleet could pull out. Then Cardassia or the Romulans or Klingons are there and they won't care what Bajor wants.
Is it like the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
You think "millions" of people lived on New Bajor??
Are you counting pregnant ladies as two people?
We don't know how many Bajorans died on New Bajor because we never got numbers. (Though I am certain it won't be millions.)
And the Dominion could have hailed the colony and said, "You're in our space. Now leave." But the first response was kill them all... just like the Gorn in "ARENA". Or given some kind of warning before Talak'talan beamed over in "THE JEM'HADAR". It proved the Dominion was not a nice group.
Even before then, given that one of the reasons a Starfleet crew was assigned to the station in the first place was because Bajor had applied for Federation membership, you'd think there'd have been a diplomatic envoy there right from the very start.
Joining the Federation is not about compromise, if some one has already strip mined your dilithium deposits.
Not sure about him, honestly. He shows up in the starbase command center, but he also seems to be the officer in charge of the actual upgrades to the Enterprise.
I mentioned that, because I have lost count of the number of times I have seen "Shouldn't so-and-so lesser-ranked individual* and/or a computer perform those tasks?" Yes, such delegation might be realistic, while occasionally making for interesting scenes, but strict and regular delegation of that nature quickly runs into three major problems ->
1. Budget (which is limited).
2. Screen time (which is also limited).
3. Diminished/diluted investment.
Extras - talking extras - are a sharply finite resource because of money; if all of these extras behave as mimes, then there goes a degree of immersion. The more time devoted to extras means less time that can be allocated to the main cast. Technically, a computer can sometimes handle tasks a main character typically performs (e.g., scans/investigations in the flesh), but that then means there is that much less for an MC to do.
All of this is to say that what "ought" to happen detracts from the space opera front-and-center bold exploration roots of the franchise. People who are eager for anything approaching accurate military hierarchical operations probably shouldn't expect Star Trek to (fully) whet their appetites.
Sisko demonstrated early on how to handle diplomacy when he punched Q.
When you're 4 or younger, wrestling with mum or dad, and you're going all out, but you're still aware that nothing short of a sainted miracle that you do is going to hurt this giant monster encouraging you to try a little harder not to be completely ineffectual.
Tom Paris on the hand, probably killed a few Q.
Sisko did not provoke Q. Q was the one punching him in the face. Multiple times.
But sure, allowing yourself to get punched in the face repeatedly is always the better move...
He could have used, hm...words? Make Q's actions - his boxing spectacle - manifestly foolish through a bit of repartee unique to Sisko's character? When I think of how Picard and Janeway interacted with Q's high jinks, that physical response seemed so pedestrian by comparison.
Yeah, that'll work with Q.
Explains why he only appeared once on TNG. Oh, wait...
(Besides, you can't expect someone to get punched in the face several times and them NOT to respond back.)
Explains why he only appeared once on TNG. Oh, wait...
(Besides, you can't expect someone to get punched in the face several times and them NOT to respond back.)
The whole point of the scene was to show Sisko's methods are different than Picard's, emphasized when Sisko even said "I'm not Picard" in response to Q's comment about how Picard never punched him.
Besides, people who power trip like that need a punch in the face once in a while.
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