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Enterprise Wreckage

As I understand the Galaxy class was still a serving line starship.

We don't know if Starfleet maintains 'junkyards' in the modern sense,but that saucer section would make for some neat spare parts for other Galaxy class ships in service.

So no,I'd imagine for that and a host of other reasons Starfleet would either crate up the wreck on site,tow it into orbit and drag it to a teardown facility ,or blast it from orbit(though this would prevent the -D from being recycled as parts).
 
Yeah, maybe not all of it but just the most important stuff. Maybe not bother with the furniture though.
Right. Because nothing says "following the Prime Directive" like leaving behind an ottoman for some primitive civilization to find on their moon once they attain space travel.

Ever heard of the Iotians? That crew only left behind a book.

I don't think some people here are taking into account the political forces involved in the incident at Veridian. Soran blew up a freakin' star, and tried to do it to another in an inhabited system! That was news back home - big news. The same groups back home on Earth and Vulcan and so forth who are most interested in seeing the Prime Directive obeyed almost certainly made it their life-mission-of-the-week ;) to see to it that those poor primitive Veridians were never affected by these terrible events. Every speck of the Enterprise would have been cleaned away, as would Soran's stuff. The trench would have been filled, and experts brought in to make sure it looked like it was never touched. Biologists and botanists and archeologists and all sorts of experts would have been assigned to monitor the area for years, maybe decades, to make sure everything was alright. Survey ships would have stealthily checked up on the Veridians from then on. And while we never saw it happen, I'm almost certain there was a formal review of the actions of the Enterprise crew that resulted in the saucer crash. Counselor Troi probably caught hell - wouldn't surprise me if she was never allowed near the helm again, or if she never wanted to go near it.
 
He did mention that "casualties were light". I'm not an expert on military vocabulary, but doesn't the word "casualty" refer to deaths? If so, them there was some "light" number of deaths. In TMP, Kirk first referred to Decker and Ilia as "casualties" until he corrected it to "missing".


'Casualties' means anyone killed or wounded.


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Yeah, maybe not all of it but just the most important stuff. Maybe not bother with the furniture though.
Right. Because nothing says "following the Prime Directive" like leaving behind an ottoman for some primitive civilization to find on their moon once they attain space travel.

Ever heard of the Iotians? That crew only left behind a book.

I don't think some people here are taking into account the political forces involved in the incident at Veridian. Soran blew up a freakin' star, and tried to do it to another in an inhabited system! That was news back home - big news. The same groups back home on Earth and Vulcan and so forth who are most interested in seeing the Prime Directive obeyed almost certainly made it their life-mission-of-the-week ;) to see to it that those poor primitive Veridians were never affected by these terrible events. Every speck of the Enterprise would have been cle aned away, as would Soran's stuff. The trench would have been filled, and experts brought in to make sure it looked like it was never touched. Biologists and botanists and archeologists and all sorts of experts would have been assigned to monitor the area for years, maybe decades, to make sure everything was alright. Survey ships would have stealthily checked up on the Veridians from then on. And while we never saw it happen, I'm almost certain there was a formal review of the actions of the Enterprise crew that resulted in the saucer crash. Counselor Troi probably caught hell - wouldn't surprise me if she was never allowed near the helm again, or if she never wanted to go near it.

You haven't seen Nemesis have you.
 
I was under the impression that SF would have "scuttled" the saucer section after taking all items of value. In WW2 it was common practice to scuttle battle damaged ships that were beyond repair and send them to the bottom. It would just have taken a couple well aimed photons to destroy what was left of the Enterprise.
 
You know, instead of filling the trench that the 1701D Saucer left. Starfleet could have, once the saucer and any other pieces of the ship and/or contaminants were removed, could have grabbed a near by asteroid or comet. Then used the computer to determine the proper angle, speed, shape debris pattern, and recreated the scene to look like an impact from a small comet or asteroid, and put the reshaped asteroid/comet and it's debris where it would have been to make it look as if it had been the cause all along.
 
Only problem is, I don't think objects like comets leave a trench like that...

Starfleet definitley has more than enough technology than is required to dump some dirt in and put some trees in.
 
I was under the impression that SF would have "scuttled" the saucer section after taking all items of value. In WW2 it was common practice to scuttle battle damaged ships that were beyond repair and send them to the bottom. It would just have taken a couple well aimed photons to destroy what was left of the Enterprise.

Problem is "scuttling" it in such a manner would STILL leave debris and trace elements of the ship's components on the planet which could have PD repercussions in the future.

It's not outside of their capability to simply tractor the ship off the planet, or attach some powerful impulse-based recovery "floats" to lift the ship off the surface or, hell, use a ship with one heck of a powersystem to beam the saucer off the planet.

Leaving even one, tiny, bolt on the planet could have repurcussions and SF wouldn't risk it.
 
Whats going to happen when the clean up team goes to clean Sorans rock area and find the the body of one starfleets greatist heros under a few rocks!!!!!!? ;)
 
Whats going to happen when the clean up team goes to clean Sorans rock area and find the the body of one starfleets greatist heros under a few rocks!!!!!!? ;)
They didn't find him.
A cloaked Romulan ship, working with the Borg, beamed him out and fled the area.
 
While I enjoyed that book,
(referenced in the spoiler, the premise of the Romulans and the Borg working together and getting kirk to do their dirty work, could only have been written by Shatner's ego
 
^They didn't know where to find the Stargazer. I was given the impression they thought it was destroyed or lost for good.

As for the good ol' Enterprise D, I'd say they would have to clean up before the inhabitants of Veridian IV develop the ability to send unmanned and manned spacecraft to Veridian III.

This man speaks the truth. I agree with both points.

Joe, agreer
 
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