What would you do?.

[Mr Pointy Ears]

With the events that happened in the episode rules of engagements,where worf was on trail for destroying a klingon cilivan ship,what would you had done if u were in command of the defiant and the events unfolded in front of you as they did for worf,

 

[Ezri II]

With the events that happened in the episode rules of engagements,where worf was on trail for destroying a klingon cilivan ship,what would you had done if u were in command of the defiant and the events unfolded in front of you as they did for worf,

Think of it like a video game!

SHOOT EVERYTHING

 

[JNG]

I was always sort of shocked that the Klingons would even care about this enough to be able to sell the ruse. Where was their BS honor when they thought they were massacring Organians? They'd ultimately have done anything to win, and the concept of worrying about civilian casualties on freighters in KDF-escorted convoys is somewhat impractical despite the best intentions of the Federation, especially if those freighters are going to be running stealth technology in the middle of a battle! Even though he says it to rile up Worf, I believe Ch'Pok when he says that stuff about how a "real Klingon" would be pleased to kill any enemies, so the whole thing feels weird.

This was a real misfire of an episode. If they were so pumped about a courtroom drama addressing accidental wartime civilian casualties, they castrated the whole thing by letting Worf off the hook with the ruse and just made it quizzical by having the Klingons be the ones to even pretend to give a damn. Now Starfleet putting Worf on trial over killing Klingon civilians and Worf not sure whether or not he really regrets it...there you might have an episode. This would have made some sense; during war with Klingons, someone in Starfleet would surely have been giving Worf the stinkeye.

 

[Jono]

I probably would have done the exact same thing Worf did and shoot as soon as something started to decloak before confirming its identity. Given that there is a small gap between decloaking and shields coming up its a good tactic for quickly dealing with a cloaked adversary.

Risky but I'd consider it an acceptable risk. The odds of a cloakable civilian ship stumbling into an active combat zone would be low. If a civilians cloaked ship was there in a battle zone where one side is using cloaking tech I'd expect it to communicate its presence if it really had to decloak or just to flag its location so it isn't accidentally hit by stray fire.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I was always sort of shocked that the Klingons would even care about this enough to be able to sell the ruse.

Revenge on Worf and to sully the image of the Federation in the eyes of the known galaxy.

Seems more of a Romulan or a Cardassian tactic, though.

 

[Photon]

I would:

Load quantum torpedoes
Lock on target

Fire

 

[2 of 10]

^^
Agreed, those who hesitate are lost, espically in warfare when mere seconds can decide who lives and who dies. And in MHO, better them than my crew and myself. I also think in the final scene when Sisko is
"talking" to Mr.Worf he was speaking more like a bureaucrat than a
Star Fleet Bridge officer, who had been in battle before and probably had made the same decisions himself.

 

[KlingonPredator]

This is the "fog of war". If I was in the same situation, firing is the only thing you can do to protect and defend your crew and your mission. In war, you exploit your enemies' weaknesses for you benefit. Worf was doing exactly that. The Klingons were looking to cause a spectacle, a trap Starfleet walked right into.