Sorry Timo, you're right! I was going off a video I saw the other day, but I think the point was a replicator can't replicate a better replicator, just an identical one.
The Arguments made in the Episode Sanctuary, The Skrreea on Bajor?
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If Bajor is having a famine I can understand that replicators might not be able to solve the problem at once but if you combined that with food shipments I would think that would solve the problem in the short term and once the planet has been fixed from the strip mining and destruction the Cardissans did they could then become even more self-reliant. Plus I got to wonder why their wouldn't already be replicators already on the planet since we know Carddisans use them as well.
Jason
Jason
I am certain the same thing that occurs with some 3rd world countries regarding mismanagement of resources also happens in bajor.
Another thing to consider is the skrreeans might not be safe on Bajor from the native population. Just earlier in that season they almost had a civil war and if the planet is in bad shape people might want to exploit them. Plus the threat of Carddisians is still looming over them since it hadn't even been 3 years since the Occupation.
Jason
Jason
When occupiers are forced out, they tend to take or destroy anything that might prove useful to the indigenous people, out of spite.
that's true but from what I have gathered the withdrawl was a kind of a rush thing. We know they destroyed alot of the stuff on the station but I find it intresting that they didn't destroy it. I can't help but think that their must have been alot of chaos going on so I would think alot of tech would have been left behind, untouched.
Jason
I didn't really buy that whole "The Skrea are farmers" argument, their leader used. The land is barren/polluted how the hell are you going to be better at growing crops than the people who are native to the planet?
The natives spent the last 40 years working as slaves or being resistance fighters. Living the antebellum life never came up.
Arboretums
Well we never saw their ships and what type of climate their foods thrive in
You never watched For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky?
Of course I have. And 5 seasons of Babylon 5. Nothing in Sanctuary suggests that the Skreea are anything more than poor refugees, poor to the point of being contemptible, in a ship that was barely holding together. That was the whole point of the episode--seeing how the Bajorans would treat a people even worse off than they were.
With regard to DS9 not being destroyed, the Cardassians expected to re-annex the planet within a few months, since they felt Bajor would fall apart and the Feds wouldn't be able to help enough for their liking. Indeed, if the wormhole hadn't been discovered and led to increased trade, Bajor's recovery might well have been slow enough to lead to militant elements like the Circle kicking Starfleet out far sooner.
...And the interesting thing is that while the Cardassians did only a halfhearted job at thrashing the station, we learn from O'Brien's complaints that they managed to hurt the replicators pretty badly even when our heroes had the shields working fine by the end of the pilot episode. Either it's markedly easier to destroy replicators than vital combat gear, or then what mattered to the Cardassians was that it's markedly easier to repair replicators than vital combat gear... If you happen to be a Cardassian skilled in Cardassian replicator repair, that is.
One could see a software weapon or a systemwide command being effective at wrecking all the replicators on the planet, networked as they might be - but military hardware being specifically hardened against that sort of thing, and also against overarching scuttling commands no matter how legit the one doing the commanding.
OTOH, destroying DS9 would diminish the ability of the Cardassians to reoccupy Bajor. Destroying Bajor, including its replicators and food production infrastructure, would increase that ability.
Timo Saloniemi
One could see a software weapon or a systemwide command being effective at wrecking all the replicators on the planet, networked as they might be - but military hardware being specifically hardened against that sort of thing, and also against overarching scuttling commands no matter how legit the one doing the commanding.
OTOH, destroying DS9 would diminish the ability of the Cardassians to reoccupy Bajor. Destroying Bajor, including its replicators and food production infrastructure, would increase that ability.
Timo Saloniemi
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