It would explain a lot. Maybe the E-marking system on that shuttle was malfunctioning, causing the readings to change continuously.
Stadi's shuttle
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It would explain a lot. Maybe the E-marking system on that shuttle was malfunctioning, causing the readings to change continuously.
According to the Voyager book Caretaker which is based on the script for the episode, Stadi let Paris walk away of his own when she stayed on the shuttle "to batten things down after the docking".
According to the same book, Paris was met by Odo and another member of the DS9 security team, a Bajoran. Paris thought that Odo and the other security guy were around to check up on him and came up with some comments which obviously didn't amuse Odo and his colleague. Too late Paris realized that Odo and his colleagues greted everyone who arrived at the station out of courtesy.
So Paris decided to have a beer at Quarks' before checking in on Voyager. After all, it was his first possibility to feel like a free man again after his time at the penal colony in New Zealand.
As for Kim, according to the book Caretaker he arrived to Deep Space Nine one day before Paris.
When he first checked in, only Dr, Fitzgerald was available there so he spent the day shopping at the station, eating at the Klingon restaurant (and get sick according to the book), talking himself into a game of raquetball with a friendly medical lieutenant (obviously Julian Bashir) and attend a extremely strange Tellarite production of The Cherry Orchard before returning to the ship reralizing that "this is now my home". He had no idea that it would be his permanent home for seven years!
Anyway, the next day he went to Quark's where he met both the owner of the nice bar and Tom Paris and the rest is history!
The story in the book Caretaker is basically the same as the episode but woth lot of small details which makes it very interesting to read and I consider the details which were left out in the episode as valuable as what we saw on screen.
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Well, the big problem with any "stuff happens" extra story there is that our two new crew members are supposed to report in, yet the aftermath of the Quark scene is when they do so. Kim looks like the type who's eager to please: it's difficult to imagine he would postpone his meeting with the Captain unless he had to.
So the story we need is the one explaining the absence of Janeway from her ship...
Timo Saloniemi
So the story we need is the one explaining the absence of Janeway from her ship...
Timo Saloniemi
And yet he did, doesn't the doctor give him shit about not having done it yet?
Even though Janeway doesn't seem put out by it, Kim and Paris only bother to check in moments before the ship leaves DS9. Which seems weird, thinking about it now.
Good point. I gather the mission would be hush-hush: Starfleet would suspect Maquis leaks aboard DS9. But it should also be time-critical, yet there's no sense of hurry, and no summons for either Tom or Harry when the captain does get aboard. Rather, the ship sails out immediately after Tom has wandered to Janeway's ready room at his own leisurely pace. Perhaps the two combined can be used to squeeze some sense out of this?
That is, the crew, old and new, is left in a limbo for a day or two, waiting for they-do-not-know what. Janeway not only knows that they are waiting for Paris to shuttle over from Bajor, but is following his every step, with a bit of help from Stadi - and from Sisko's team, which tracks Tom aboard the station just in case the rascal tries to make contact with the Maquis or something.
Tom is the bottleneck, the kingpin, the payload. No wonder they have his transportation rotate registries every three minutes!
Timo Saloniemi
That is, the crew, old and new, is left in a limbo for a day or two, waiting for they-do-not-know what. Janeway not only knows that they are waiting for Paris to shuttle over from Bajor, but is following his every step, with a bit of help from Stadi - and from Sisko's team, which tracks Tom aboard the station just in case the rascal tries to make contact with the Maquis or something.
Tom is the bottleneck, the kingpin, the payload. No wonder they have his transportation rotate registries every three minutes!
Timo Saloniemi
I didn't think about it at the time but after this thread the logistics do seem a bit weird.
Regarding shuttle types - the Type 6 was used in the later seasons of TNG and the Type 8 was a facelift (silver instead of beige, pointier nacelles) for the early seasons of VOY. The Type 9/Class 2 ("speedboat") doesn't appear until Threshold, although it is later established to have been there from the beginning.
The Type 6 and Type 8 are so similar in design that even the production team got them mixed up a lot - there are some episodes (such as The Raven) in which a single shuttle will flip between types in alternating shots.
Regarding shuttle types - the Type 6 was used in the later seasons of TNG and the Type 8 was a facelift (silver instead of beige, pointier nacelles) for the early seasons of VOY. The Type 9/Class 2 ("speedboat") doesn't appear until Threshold, although it is later established to have been there from the beginning.
The Type 6 and Type 8 are so similar in design that even the production team got them mixed up a lot - there are some episodes (such as The Raven) in which a single shuttle will flip between types in alternating shots.
To beat a dead hobby-horse, we never really heard "Type 9" associated with the sleek speedboat. Its creator liked to think of it as Type 12 instead, while the unseen Type 9 left behind in "Resolutions" might well have been a larger type for the Captain Bligh type voyage that was postulated for it, rather than the notoriously cramped speedbboat.
Also, larger is faster in Trek, super-dilithium-boosted testbeds notwithstanding. So it would be fun for the "Resolution" Type 9 to be the same as in the TNG Tech Manual, a big cargo shuttle with nacelles twice as long as in the competing types...
LDS now throws Type 6a in the mix, plus shows the heroes bolting unusual nacelles to their hobby project. Perhaps the letter could mark engine variants, so that some of the purported Type 8 shuttles here legitimately can have Type 6 style nacelles every now and then. Although mid-flight swaps sound like more of a chore than mid-flight changing of registry pennants!
Timo Saloniemi
Also, larger is faster in Trek, super-dilithium-boosted testbeds notwithstanding. So it would be fun for the "Resolution" Type 9 to be the same as in the TNG Tech Manual, a big cargo shuttle with nacelles twice as long as in the competing types...
LDS now throws Type 6a in the mix, plus shows the heroes bolting unusual nacelles to their hobby project. Perhaps the letter could mark engine variants, so that some of the purported Type 8 shuttles here legitimately can have Type 6 style nacelles every now and then. Although mid-flight swaps sound like more of a chore than mid-flight changing of registry pennants!
Timo Saloniemi
Nah, Picard just loaned Janeway that shuttle. She promised to have it back to him after this quick Maquis mission.
Now that I see this thread, I have a better question.
Tom Paris was not technically released from prison, but was made an 'observer' for the mission. Doing this, Janeway would help him in his next outmate review, meaning he was still a prisoner.
So why was Tom not escorted by a security officer the entire time? Or at least followed by one.
Unless they put a tracking device inside him, which Starfleet could do, but that feels more like a Tal Shiar or Obsidian Order thing to do.
Tom Paris was not technically released from prison, but was made an 'observer' for the mission. Doing this, Janeway would help him in his next outmate review, meaning he was still a prisoner.
So why was Tom not escorted by a security officer the entire time? Or at least followed by one.
Unless they put a tracking device inside him, which Starfleet could do, but that feels more like a Tal Shiar or Obsidian Order thing to do.
Tom doing something criminal and Maquis-related would in all likelihood be a welcome thing - this would help Starfleet expose more of the Maquis operations, to little extra cost. That is, Paris would hardly attempt to escape unless he had a realistic plan, and that one probably would involve the Maquis, there being nobody else interested in helping him out.
And Paris spilling his guts on the mission to extricate Tuvok would be unlikely to do much harm, as the extraction supposedly was being done because Tuvok already was two minutes away from being exposed for a wiseguy. If anything, Janeway would welcome extra intrigue relating to that, because extracting Tuvok from the current "Maybe in the Badlands, missing for unknown reasons" jam would be way more difficult than from "In a known Maquis high security base, being timidly interrogated by ex-Starfleeters and other wussies".
No real need to insert a tracker in Tom's intestines when he's inside Starfleet-controlled facilities the whole time. DS9 is actually ideal for being that but not appearing to be that, perhaps prompting Tom to act and reveal his cards; between themselves, Janeway, Sisko and Odo could handle that situation.
Timo Saloniemi
And Paris spilling his guts on the mission to extricate Tuvok would be unlikely to do much harm, as the extraction supposedly was being done because Tuvok already was two minutes away from being exposed for a wiseguy. If anything, Janeway would welcome extra intrigue relating to that, because extracting Tuvok from the current "Maybe in the Badlands, missing for unknown reasons" jam would be way more difficult than from "In a known Maquis high security base, being timidly interrogated by ex-Starfleeters and other wussies".
No real need to insert a tracker in Tom's intestines when he's inside Starfleet-controlled facilities the whole time. DS9 is actually ideal for being that but not appearing to be that, perhaps prompting Tom to act and reveal his cards; between themselves, Janeway, Sisko and Odo could handle that situation.
Timo Saloniemi
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