Perhaps. But the fact that they get single references in TNG and VOY offers no support for this. It just, you know, is.
Timo Saloniemi
Was there ever a DS10?
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Perhaps. But the fact that they get single references in TNG and VOY offers no support for this. It just, you know, is.
Timo Saloniemi
It actually does support it. There's no reason to believe otherwise.
Of course, we could also go with the theory that a handful of stations have the Deep Space designations just because they do and that's the sole rationale behind it. Either way, same result.
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Yeah, it's the Talaxian asteroid in the Delta Quadrant. 
The tendency to shake herself apart at full power was solved by rearranging and strengthening the structural integrity fields, not by reducing power. Maintaining warp 9.5 for several days (in "The Sound of Her Voice") is nothing to be ashamed of. Although she's not as fast as Voyager, she's more maneuverable and quicker to accelerate.
The latter is not the same thing as the former. What you stated offers no support whatsoever. That is, it fits any and all theories and props up none of them.
Say there's a USS Hood out there. Is this support for the name staying with the same ship forever or not?
Never stated on screen. As far as we know, the problem was never solved at all. Indeed, the dialogue in "The Sound of Her Voice" goes along these very lines, with the SIF strengthening offered as a theoretical option that has not been tried before.
It's something the ship can't do, though. Not normally, as the episode dialogue indicates the ship never goes past 9.0 because of the SIF problems specified.
Never indicated. Any starship seems to be able to go through those loops and hoops (which as we see are of zero help in avoiding being hit!), and there's zero specs on acceleration on any starship.
Timo Saloniemi
Yeah, it does. You may not like it or agree with it, but it does work (and quite well actually).
Yep, until that ship is eventually decommissioned and a new USS Hood is built.
Likes, dislikes or the models being correct or not have nothing to do with this. You are simply making a logical error here, in assuming that something offers support for a model when it is utterly indifferent to the model. "It does work" is neither here nor there.
And here you are using extraneous information and speculation, such as "ships get decommisioned" and "new ones get built" and "new ones get the names of old ones", without deriving it from the material I offered. The very same thing goes with DS station numbers.
Timo Saloniemi
Who said any of that?
Nah, it's as good as an idea as any.
At this point you're putting words in my mouth and getting off topic here.
Pretty sure in "Shattered Mirror", Sisko told mirror-O'Brien that the prime universe solved the Defiant's structural problems by strengthening and/or rearranging her SIFs.
Voyager is better at sustained top speeds (and a good thing she was), but Defiant is built for fighting, and is much smaller, more maneuverable, and quicker to accelerate.
If "Deep Space" is the designation given to starbases outside Federation space and/or ones jointly operated with other polities, I wonder if Farpoint Station would have been designated "Deep Space x" if the Federation had taken the Bandi up on their offer. (And then the former Terok Nor would be Deep Space 10.)
Farspace Starbase Farpoint. There was a Farspace Starbase Earheart in "Samaritan Snare"
The Federation is apparently still around in the 31st Century, I dare say at that point the stations were numbered in the hundreds if not thousands.
I wouldn't be surprised if they'd come up with a way to get to the next galaxy by then, too.
I remember reading in one of the behind the scenes books for First Contact that there was mention of Deep Space Twelve. The only mention of it I can find online though is the First Contact novelisation:
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gMllMnVtTisC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11&dq="deep+space+twelve"&source=bl&ots=R6AF2HwKNA&sig=gIzK-lTEtCNajABdFhdOxj1_xwM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5kNKD5fPWAhWBmpQKHbldARwQ6AEITzAL#v=onepage&q="deep space twelve"&f=false
It's also mentioned on page 171 of Captains Logs Supplemental but in a second hand kind of recollection by the authors, where they are talking about the plot of the then upcoming Trek VIII and how a Borg fleet is approaching from the sector of Deep Space Twelve.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gMllMnVtTisC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11&dq="deep+space+twelve"&source=bl&ots=R6AF2HwKNA&sig=gIzK-lTEtCNajABdFhdOxj1_xwM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5kNKD5fPWAhWBmpQKHbldARwQ6AEITzAL#v=onepage&q="deep space twelve"&f=false
It's also mentioned on page 171 of Captains Logs Supplemental but in a second hand kind of recollection by the authors, where they are talking about the plot of the then upcoming Trek VIII and how a Borg fleet is approaching from the sector of Deep Space Twelve.
If the Federation is still around in the 31st century, I'd suspect that there is very little space left to be considered "deep."
"Near Station 9"
"Not So Far Away Station 12"
They're not space stations at that point. Outward has been explored, so now exploration has turned inward. They're philosophy study centers. As in, "that's really DEEP, man". They have names like Deep 10, and Deep 13. And Deeeeeeep Huuuuuuurrrrtiiiing.
