what was Starfleet thinking (Message in a bottle)?

[Shat Happens]

Good Doctor episode. But the space tactical is something.

They already had one Nebula disabled by the Prometheus in multi vector attack mode.

Then when the Prometheus (alone worth 3 ships) was joined by 3 huge Romulan Warbirds, they send one Akira + two Defiants?

Had the Doctor and the other Doctor not taken control of the Prometheus it would have been a massacre.

Dumb Admirals.

 

[DonIago]

I would imagine they were the only ships available to dispatch...

And two Defiants can pack a hell of a wallop...especially if you've got Sisko commanding one and Worf commanding the other.

 

[MacLeod]

As Don says, perhaps they were the only ships within interception range.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around a super advanced battleship, which only six people in all of Starfleet are trained to fly - despite hundreds or thousands being involved in it's design and construction.

Still love the episode, though!

 

[Richard Baker]

The Defiant class is a nimble heavy hitter and the Akira class is covered in torpedo launchers- if you have only nearby ships available to send they were lucky to have that combination.

 

[Count]

The Defiant has been stated as having the same power as a galaxy class starship in terms of weaponry and defences. Even if it's not true exactly, if you work with that assumption and you also consider that the Nebula is more of a long range research/science vessel. You can consider the two high speed/interceptor vessels as more than capable of dealing with the Prometheus and the Akira was more of a support ship/troop transport (As Defiants have tiny crews and the Prometheus could have been swarming with hundreds of Romulans).

Also, in the case of the war, as this would have been season 6 or so on DS9, Starfleet may not have had spare ships, or the Defiants/Akira may have been the fastest with the strongest combat ratio compared to other available ships.

 

[MacLeod]

I'll have to assume the Romulans knew how to change the pre-fix code as well.

 

[Shat Happens]

I guess it was better than send Oberths full of explosives like Grissom was.

 

[Timo]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around a super advanced battleship, which only six people in all of Starfleet are trained to fly - despite hundreds or thousands being involved in it's design and construction.

I doubt flying as such is a problem: running the multi-vector mode would be the exotic thing calling for specialists. Since it's also an unheard-of development in Federation weapons technology, better train only the bare minimum of personnel at first, both to prevent the secrets from leaking to the enemy, and to contain the internal backlash if the thing just plain doesn't work.

The real mystery here is, how could the supposedly untrained Romulans so efficiently operate the combat drones if it takes Starfleet personnel special training to accomplish that? Is the multi-vector thing actually thoroughly automated, and "four people trained" simply means "four people given the clearance and the codes required"?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Melakon]

I never get too wrapped up in the logic of Star Trek comedies. Much of the episode is played too light for my taste, especially with it revealed that the ship's original Starfleet crew has been murdered. I guess we're supposed to forget about that part.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Starfleet admiralty and much of the fleet, except for the heroes of their respective shows, are plagued by plot induced stupidity so our heroes can save the day.

 

[SPCTRE]

The Defiant class is a nimble heavy hitter and the Akira class is covered in torpedo launchers- if you have only nearby ships available to send they were lucky to have that combination.

Yup. The Akira has more torpedo launchers than crew members. It's canon, people - Alex Jaeger said so.

 

[Shat Happens]

I never get too wrapped up in the logic of Star Trek comedies. Much of the episode is played too light for my taste, especially with it revealed that the ship's original Starfleet crew has been murdered. I guess we're supposed to forget about that part.

dont feel bad about them. They were only redshirts.

 

[DonIago]

It wouldn't have stopped Kirk et al. from ending the episode on a high note.

 

[Melakon]

^ I watched "The Galileo Seven" this morning, and noticed something about that final scene that gets criticized for being a laugh fest after 2 men are dead. Will have to see if there's a recent thread to comment about it.