Why process Ore in Space on Terok Nor?

[JD5000]

Using Dukat's lines as a reference isn't going to go far. One of his primary characteristics was a propensity towards exaggerating the truth.

We really don't get much about the reality of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, because all presented character's POVs are extremely biased in either direction, or have no reason to give an eff either way.

 

[Christopher]

We know from "The Siege" that the Bajoran resistance had fighter craft and moon bases. We know from "Ensign Ro" that Bajoran refugees had interstellar travel. We know from "Explorers" that the Bajoran space age began more than 750 years before the Cardassian occupation, and we know from "Progress" that they had a large population on their moon Jeraddo. There has never been any doubt that the Bajorans were capable of space travel before or during the occupation.

 

[JD5000]

No doubt whatsoever. I welcome your disagreement, I just don't think the Bajorans had the resources during the occupation to do anything meaningful to Terok Nor. We do know some 'minor' terrorist activities took place on the station, but they didn't seem to be game-changers.

My opinion isn't based on whether or not Bajorans had the capability of interstellar travel, because they clearly do as stated, but whether or not they had enough access to the technology during the occupation to cause any serious damage to Terok Nor.

 

[USS Triumphant]

My opinion isn't based on whether or not Bajorans had the capability of interstellar travel, because they clearly do as stated, but whether or not they had enough access to the technology during the occupation to cause any serious damage to Terok Nor.

If they had a warp-capable ship, then they had a weapon capable of utterly destroying Terok Nor by ramming. Not that we've ever seen (that I can recall) any warp-capable civilization use their warp drive in that fashion - something that I unfortunately consider pretty unrealistic, really.

 

[JD5000]

This is something every Trekkie should know, but I'm going to bow my head and ask. The Maquis were formed AFTER the occupation of Bajor in response to the territory lines given in the Federation-Cardassian treaty, right? If I'm wrong about that, then my theory doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[Christopher]

If they had a warp-capable ship, then they had a weapon capable of utterly destroying Terok Nor by ramming. Not that we've ever seen (that I can recall) any warp-capable civilization use their warp drive in that fashion - something that I unfortunately consider pretty unrealistic, really.

Actually that's true if they have impulse-driven ships capable of relativistic velocities. Even at a quarter or half of the speed of light, the kinetic energy of a shuttlecraft would be comparable to that of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. (It's far less massive, yes, but going far faster, and kinetic energy goes as the square of the velocity. So if it were going 100 times faster, it would only have to be 1/10000 as massive to cause as much damage.)

This is something every Trekkie should know, but I'm going to bow my head and ask. The Maquis were formed AFTER the occupation of Bajor in response to the territory lines given in the Federation-Cardassian treaty, right? If I'm wrong about that, then my theory doesn't make any sense at all.

That's right. The occupation of Bajor ended shortly before DS9 premiered, around the early part of TNG's 6th season. The Maquis formed in response to the border treaty that was negotiated just before "Journey's End," late in TNG's 7th season. So there's over a year and a half between them.