In “Where No One Has Gone Before” they’re hurled away twice, the second time billions of light years away.
What if the Enterprise were thrown into the Delta Quadrant?
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But can return to known space immediately. So why Voyager couldn't?
The Enterprise was only able to go that far that quickly because of an alien visitor called “the Traveller” they had on board in that episode. It can’t normally do that.
Hrm, could have been a nice apprenticeship project for Wesley (studying with the Traveler): getting Voyager home by accelerating it to Ludicrous Speed.
I wonder what would happen if DS9 was thrown into the Delta Quadrant and was stuck there when the array exploded. What do you do when your giant starbase can't just pack up and start heading for home like Voyager or the Enterprise? Do you just set up shop in orbit of the Ocampa homeworld? If you had the post-Season 4 DS9 you could just make mincemeat of any Kazon and Vidiians that came knocking.
There's something about Sisko that attracts wormholes. They'll be home in no time.
Which DS9? “Emissary” DS9 means abandoning the station or suing for peace with the Kazon. “Way of the Warrior” DS9 means building a dry dock or six ASAP to start churning out ships (maybe even 90-year old Romulan Birds-of-Prey with primitive cloak and all) and trying to build a mini-Federation with the locals to defend against the neighborhood Kazon thugs.
The Prophets would probably come beat up the Caretaker and tell him to stop playing with their toys.
WOTW DS9 for sure. And on building ships, even Mirror Terok Nor could crank out a Defiant-class in less than year. So maybe DS9 could just start mass producing Defiants for everyone.
I mean, after how badly they would have pissed off the keys on, I can’t imagine them hanging around in an undependable station with all of that super valuable technology. They would have to find someway to move.
Or, maybe “Emissary” DS9 would cloak the station. They could move it a little (just like they did in the pilot from orbit of Bajor three hours away to the mouth of the wormhole) so it’s not where the Kazon saw it blow up the Caretaker’s array, and cloak it with an earlier Romulan/Klingon cloak the schematics of which might have been in their memory banks. To the locals, it would be like the replicator technology — an unknown alien tech they’re unfamiliar with and so far have no way around.
Then Sisko & Co. could spend all their time making/procuring weapons and tech to get them back home while getting a lay of the land there in the DQ. Many good episodes could be had with all that going on and ultimately the afore-mentioned mini-Federation if they were going to be there a while.
Or, maybe “Emissary” DS9 would cloak the station. They could move it a little (just like they did in the pilot from orbit of Bajor three hours away to the mouth of the wormhole) so it’s not where the Kazon saw it blow up the Caretaker’s array, and cloak it with an earlier Romulan/Klingon cloak the schematics of which might have been in their memory banks. To the locals, it would be like the replicator technology — an unknown alien tech they’re unfamiliar with and so far have no way around.
Then Sisko & Co. could spend all their time making/procuring weapons and tech to get them back home while getting a lay of the land there in the DQ. Many good episodes could be had with all that going on and ultimately the afore-mentioned mini-Federation if they were going to be there a while.
Quark is killed and Neelix takes over the bar.
Wesley would have brought them back to the Alpha Quadrant, either by completely redesigning the warp drive or by using his non-corporeal powers.
The ship would have more chief engineers than anything else onboard, so I'm guessing they'd soon figure out a way to get the ship home.
Helped design the Delta Flyer and the astrometrics lab?
Led a department and served as a senior officer right out of the Academy?
Served so well that Janeway out and out told him that he had exceeded her expectations (and Kathryn Janeway's expectations are NOT low).
And was so @#&*$-ing competent that in the "Non Sequitur" timeline he was up for promotion in 8 months.
Your "Harry is incompetent" theory holds as much water as Neelix's favorite colander.
Led a department and served as a senior officer right out of the Academy?
Served so well that Janeway out and out told him that he had exceeded her expectations (and Kathryn Janeway's expectations are NOT low).
And was so @#&*$-ing competent that in the "Non Sequitur" timeline he was up for promotion in 8 months.
Your "Harry is incompetent" theory holds as much water as Neelix's favorite colander.
If this can be done, it begs the question of why Voyager didn't do it - a cloak (even a poor one) would have gotten them past a lot of trouble. So either the Starfleet commitment to upholding the Treaty of Algeron is suicidally devout, or they don't routinely carry the specs for cloaks in their computers.
Uphold a treaty or face all-out war with their oldest enemy? Sacrificing a piece of tech to save millions of lives makes sense to me. Since cloaking technology is illegal no Starfleet computer would keep that information in it.
Now why Starfleet didn't develop phasing technology is another matter. Phasing and cloaking are two different things, one that violates the treaty and the other which doesn't and would be a far more useful piece of equipment to install on starships.
^ i don’t know that they are all that different or that both aren’t in the treaty. Plus, the Romulans were also working on phase cloak tech per the episode where Geordi and Ro were phase-cloaked, so it’s not a sure edge ahead, just continuing the precarious status quo with even more threatening technology.
Why VOY didn’t cloak? Maybe not to seem like a devious plague-ship no one would let though their territory. DS9 on the other hand had an existential need for a cloak, like Atlantis in the Stargate universe.
Why VOY didn’t cloak? Maybe not to seem like a devious plague-ship no one would let though their territory. DS9 on the other hand had an existential need for a cloak, like Atlantis in the Stargate universe.
In order to keep to the spirit of things, Enterprise would need to suffer heavy casualties.
Riker, Crusher, Ogawa, Troi and Geordie dead, and whoever their immediate replacements would be, to allow for the Marquis replacements.
Kes I can see filling in for Troi as a psychic advisor instead of a nurse.
Riker, Crusher, Ogawa, Troi and Geordie dead, and whoever their immediate replacements would be, to allow for the Marquis replacements.
Kes I can see filling in for Troi as a psychic advisor instead of a nurse.
Maybe maybe not. A more powerful ship might have fared better. Plus, there aren’t enough Maquis to replace them if the same percentage of Starfleeters died in the move.
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