"By Inferno's Light": Killing a star...

[Ragitsu]

Good afternoon.

Question: why did the Dominion never again attempt to destroy Bajor's sun? Apparently, all this feat requires is one (tiny) vessel....and, unless I missed a vital detail, the vessel need not even be manned.

 

[ReddishAlert]

That’s a good question.

Miles must have invented a giant force field to go around the sun

I tried to think of an answer but I got nothing. Maybe a tighter patrol of ships in the area like a no fly zone

 

[Richard Baker]

Same reason McCoy never carried around a hypospray to give landing parties PK abilities after 'Plato's Stepchildren'....

 

[fireproof78]

Cardassians convinced them not to.

 

[Oddish]

Why would anyone destroy a sun period? The amount of tech and resources required to destroy a star (850,000 miles in diameter) would have to dwarf the amount required to destroy however many M-class planets and moons (less than 10,000 miles in diameter) there are in the Bajoran system.

 

[Ragitsu]

Why would anyone destroy a sun period? The amount of tech and resources required to destroy a star (850,000 miles in diameter) would have to dwarf the amount required to destroy however many M-class planets and moons (less than 10,000 miles in diameter) there are in the Bajoran system.

It seemed simple enough.

 

[Oddish]

Maybe... but to extinguish all life in a system, you only have to sear the entire surface off every inhabited planet. Even the Death Star (which only nuked planets) was overkill.

 

[Ragitsu]

Well, the Dominion never struck me as a "half-measure" sort of bunch.

 

[fireproof78]

Why would anyone destroy a sun period? The amount of tech and resources required to destroy a star (850,000 miles in diameter) would have to dwarf the amount required to destroy however many M-class planets and moons (less than 10,000 miles in diameter) there are in the Bajoran system.

The Nexus told them to

 

[Oddish]

The Nexus told them to

The Nexus, yeah. Smashing planets or exterminating sentients won't reroute the Ribbon of Happiness.

 

[Ragitsu]

 

[somebuddyX]

The blowing up the star always seemed too extreme to me and just too easy to do and too easy to duplicate. At least in SG-1 they did it with a specific way to one specific location that the snakeheads wouldn't be able to do themselves. Yes, yes, just ignore it like other tech they found and shoved in the cupboard of inconvenience. I'm just saying a bunch of Jem Hadar in cloaked ships could have got to Earth, Q'onos and Romulus and had a party.

 

[Oddish]

That and most sun-type stars actually don't supernova, even at the end of their multi billion year lifespan. They just turn into white dwarves.

 

[Ragitsu]

At least in SG-1 they did it with a specific way to one specific location that the snakeheads wouldn't be able to do themselves.

Remember Apophis' incredibly lethal bioengineered virus? One failed bid to eliminate life on Earth and that was that.

 

[Finn]

That irked me a bit. Why was the impostor still in Bashir's form. I would have the impostor in gelatinous state, with tentacles all over the place, entering the consoles and tapping buttons.

I know...1990s CGI and budget.....and plot.

 

[fireproof78]

That irked me a bit. Why was the impostor still in Bashir's form. I would have the impostor in gelatinous state, with tentacles all over the place, entering the consoles and tapping buttons.

I know...1990s CGI and budget.....and plot.

Runabout security protocols.

 

[tomalak301]

Good afternoon.

Question: why did the Dominion never again attempt to destroy Bajor's sun? Apparently, all this feat requires is one (tiny) vessel....and, unless I missed a vital detail, the vessel need not even be manned.

Wouldn't destroying the sun destroy the wormhole as well? Why would the Dominion cut themselves off from the Gamma Quadrant?

 

[DonIago]

Is there any reason to believe that destroying the sun would destroy the wormhole?

 

[Richard Baker]

I think the area of the wormhole is just empty space until it forms and it doesn't stay long.

 

[tomalak301]

Is there any reason to believe that destroying the sun would destroy the wormhole?

I was just thinking the blast radius of the star exploding and where the Wormhole is. It probably won't if it's not activated, but if it was, I was just curious if it would have any impact.