No longer deep space, renaming DS9

[Prax]

The Bakus are hogging a natural fountain of youth by occupying a small portion of a planet. what right do they have to do that? That they were there first? Oh come on!!! So if I find some natural resource in my garden that nobody was searching for until then. Does that give me a right for everything that is found in the region? This just bullshit. The Baku have a squatter right, assuming such a right is recognized by the Federation, otherwise, they got zilch. That means only the part that they are actively occupying. The rest doesn't belong to them.
Btw, I find your arguments ridiculous too. As they say that's a two-way street. I am not going to take yours seriously if you don't do the same with mine.

No one is stopping anyone from settling down on the Baku planet. There's plenty of land. Simply walk down to the local Federation deeds office and file a claim. There's no need for all these shanannagans.

#defendtheNa'vi

 

[Braxton]

Starbase B'hala

 

[UssGlenn]

The Baku settled on that planet before the Federation was founded. In practice, the Baku only own as much of the planet as they can defend by force. Which means the Federation only has claim on that planet by conquest, but that isn't their style.

 

[Discofan]

The Baku settled on that planet before the Federation was founded. In practice, the Baku only own as much of the planet as they can defend by force. Which means the Federation only has claim on that planet by conquest, but that isn't their style.

If the Baku were attacked by aliens external to the Federation, the latter could do nothing to prevent it. However, if they owned most of the planet, they would definitely defend it.

 

[f14peter]

at the risk of bringing the thread back on track ...

If Deep Space Nine isn't in deep space anymore, it needs a new name?

• Ankle Deep Space Nine
• Down-The-Street-Turn-Left-At-The-Asteriod Space Nine
• Out-There-That-A-Way Space Nine
• A Space Station Formerly Known As Deep Space Nine

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

I'm still holding out for one of the options I suggested upthread:

I'd go with Bajor(an Station) One aka BS1 or B1.

In the “Rebels” trilogy by Dafydd ab Hugh it was named “Emissary’s Torch” or something like that when the Bajoran’s took it over for a brief time while Sisko and the Starfleet crew went into the Gamma Quadrant for a few weeks. (I’m not near my books right now so I can’t check.)

Emissary's Sanctuary.

 

[Discofan]

Duty-free space station nine.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

I think the Bajorans would want to dismantle the Cardassian gulag, in favor of something more spiritual.

The producers talked about converting the station into something more spiritual in their season 8 hypothetical. Either a giant monastery of sorts - or a big ol' casino.

 

[Discofan]

The producers talked about converting the station into something more spiritual in their season 8 hypothetical. Either a giant monastery of sorts - or a big ol' casino.

How about both? Wait, we already have that, it's called Vegas.

 

[johnnybear]

Not so Deep Space Nine?
JB

 

[johnnybear]

In the world today if one country has a gold mine then according to them it belongs to that country! Whether it was won by brute force years back now the law, although made by those who took it, says it's theirs!
JB

 

[Discofan]

In the world today if one country has a gold mine then according to them it belongs to that country! Whether it was won by brute force years back now the law, although made by those who took it, says it's theirs!
JB

History is written by the victors.

 

[kkt]

History is written by the victors.

Not always true. There's a ton of U.S. Civil War history written from the Confederate point of view. Also, Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian War from the Athenian point of view, and they lost. Actually no good account from the victorioius side survives, go figure.

 

[Prax]

Spartan guy says:

"Writing history is for p***ies"

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

We'll have to wait to find out if interstellar law entitles a species to ownership over a planet if they just settle an area the size of New Jersey. But I have a feeling we wouldn't feel too comfortable about it if Mars got colonized tomorrow by a random species that may or may not be friendly.

 

[Tenacity]

Ornamental Hubcap Nine (and it's a spinner too).

Whether it was won by brute force years back now the law, although made by those who took it, says it's theirs!

The Ba'ku threw the S'ona off the planet, we only heard from the Ba'ku as to the reason.

The Ba'ku "wrote" the history.

 

[Discofan]

I still wonder how they managed to throw them off the planet, being all Luddites and that... Maybe they put their unused spaceships in one of the big caves in the mountain... Or maybe it's just unthought bullshit...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Deeehsnein

 

[Discofan]

Vulcans Need Not Apply

 

[Nerys Myk]

Quark’s Cafe Bajoran