What if section 31 caused Ceti Alpha VI to supernova?

[BozoThePerson]

As a way to cause harm to Ceti Alpha V as to quietly eliminate exiled war criminals?

 

[Gore-ac]

Then just like real life covert operations it caused blowback in the long term.

 

[Crewman Commander]

1) Planets don't go supernova.

2) Why not just blow up Ceti Alpha V itself? Or, if plausible deniability or whatever is somehow a concern, why not blow up Ceti Alpha VI in such a way as to make certain planet V is destroyed outright as collateral damage?

 

[Firebird]

Section 31?

The franchise already has a terminal case of Small Universe Syndrome as it is. Let's not make it even worse.

 

[Boo-khat!]

As a way to cause harm to Ceti Alpha V as to quietly eliminate exiled war criminals?

Or, you know, they could have just phasered them all out of existence rather than do something so unnecessarily convoluted.

 

[Crewman Commander]

Or, you know, they could have just phasered them all out of existence rather than do something so unnecessarily convoluted.

Wile E. Coyote plans are the best!

 

[Boo-khat!]

Wile E. Coyote plans are the best!

That, or (insert random James Bond villain.)

 

[BozoThePerson]

1) Planets don't go supernova.

2) Why not just blow up Ceti Alpha V itself? Or, if plausible deniability or whatever is somehow a concern, why not blow up Ceti Alpha VI in such a way as to make certain planet V is destroyed outright as collateral damage?

Number 2 could have been what they were trying to do but failed. It would make a good audio story or book.

 

[DonIago]

Ehhh. I'm kind of tired of the idea of S31 being responsible for everything. Greg Cox's To Reign in Hell proposed a natural though improbable(?) scenario, while the Vanguard books proposed another possibility I found interesting.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm kind of tired of the idea of S31 being responsible for everything.

Section 31 is not the cause of everything bad that happens in ST. Writers who have nothing better to do than think up new S31 stories are.

 

[DonIago]

Section 31 is not the cause of everything bad that happens in ST. Writers who have nothing better to do than think up new S31 stories are.

What about the fans who want everything bad to be S31's fault?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

If the next S31 story isn't written until a century after I've died of old age, it will still be far too soon for me.

 

[CoveTom]

Please, no.

Heck, I think even Deep Space Nine did too much with Section 31, let alone everything that has come since.

 

[Vger23]

I’m sorry to say it, but it actually sounds like a concept the modern Trek era would try to introduce.

 

[fireproof78]

It's a stupid idea. Ruin a productive planet for no reason. This is Reliant crew level stupid.

 

[Set Harth]

Section 31 is not the cause of everything bad that happens in ST. Writers who have nothing better to do than think up new S31 stories are.

Praxis was enough.

 

[TIN_MAN]

I think a more likely scenario would be that Starfleet might have known that Ceti Alpha VI would explode and could have sopped it from happening somehow, but section 31 made sure that didn't happen in the hope/expectation that it would take out Khan and his cohorts.