Deep Space Nine: Favor the Bold

[SuccubusYuri]

Really it comes down to how efficient you perceive the energy-to-matter conversion in a device the size of a couple basketballs. Even the magnificent starfleet warp cores run fuel efficiency in the teens, granted that is going in the OTHER direction but that feels like the far easier one...and if the Wormhole is constantly spewing out that MUCH energy all the clothes on DS9 should be lead-lined at that point.

Because we know the Dominion tried just firing on the minefield at first, to no effect. But as SOME matter must be lost to energy in the explosions, that strategy should EVENTUALLY bring the minefield down providing it isn't given any fresh source of fuel. Though that would have been a nice resistance subplot. "We need a cargo ship to "accidentally" drift into the minefield and buy us three more weeks".

[TGLS]

I'd suppose the main reason they don't use these things everywhere is because space is big, and most ways you could bring an invasion fleet don't involve a bottleneck like the wormhole. So put these things anywhere else, and the fleet can just go around them.

I don't know. Stick them in a swarm configuration around a planet (or star!) and now you don't need defense ships anymore.

It seems like making enough to keep anything from getting through to the planet would require a lot of mines. Like, a lot.

Well then, dismantle the Moon! If your using blown up mines and ships to make more mines, then you could probably use blown up Moon. And I'm not really suggesting that the Feds do this, so much as I am suggesting somebody cheap under threat from a Hyperpower (i.e. Borg, Dominion) does it. Though transporters certainly change the calculus a little.

[MissKittyFantastico]

I dunno, that sounds like it's coming dangerously close to creating a time-paradox.

This is the species that dropped Akorem Laan back into the past without even bothering to change anyone's memories of his 'unfinished' poetry; it's entirely possible they founded the Bajoran faith ten millennia ago because Sisko told them to "be gods" in season six (after they'd engineered his birth so he could explain linear time to them). I don't think they're going to lose any sleep over paradox.

[FakeGeekGirl]

*quietly eats popcorn while shamelessly stealing ideas for the DS9 fanfic I'm writing that's the Dominion War from the enemy point of view*

[BunBun299]

As far as power goes, I rather like the idea of drawing it from the wormhole, as it explains why don't use these things all over the place. But I really don't imagine the Prophets would appreciate it much.

What with non-linearity, The Sisko was in there the whole time, so presumably he'd have been okay letting his corporeal self run an extension cord through the window.

I dunno, that soumds like it's coming dangerously close to creating a time-paradox. If he's not careful, Sisko'l end up ripping a hole in the universe and letting the time-bats in to eat Bajor and rickroll the Defiant.

That is one pop culture reference I just do not get. What is rickrolling? I get Rick Astley music, but it's good music. I have a couple of his songs on my iPod. Where did this phrase come from?

[Durandal_1707]

I'd suppose the main reason they don't use these things everywhere is because space is big, and most ways you could bring an invasion fleet don't involve a bottleneck like the wormhole. So put these things anywhere else, and the fleet can just go around them.

I don't know. Stick them in a swarm configuration around a planet (or star!) and now you don't need defense ships anymore.

It seems like making enough to keep anything from getting through to the planet would require a lot of mines. Like, a lot.

Well then, dismantle the Moon! If your using blown up mines and ships to make more mines, then you could probably use blown up Moon. And I'm not really suggesting that the Feds do this, so much as I am suggesting somebody cheap under threat from a Hyperpower (i.e. Borg, Dominion) does it. Though transporters certainly change the calculus a little.

Nature does something similar to that every once in a while, dismantling a moon and turning it into a ring system. Apparently this is expected to happen to Phobos some millions of years from now:

http://www.popsci.com/falling-phobos-wi ... round-mars

So you can circle an Earth-sized planet with moon bits... in two dimensions. Trouble is, for this plan to work, you'd need to do it in three dimensions. I think that would probably take quite a lot of moons.

[J!!]

As far as power goes, I rather like the idea of drawing it from the wormhole, as it explains why don't use these things all over the place. But I really don't imagine the Prophets would appreciate it much.

What with non-linearity, The Sisko was in there the whole time, so presumably he'd have been okay letting his corporeal self run an extension cord through the window.

I dunno, that soumds like it's coming dangerously close to creating a time-paradox. If he's not careful, Sisko'l end up ripping a hole in the universe and letting the time-bats in to eat Bajor and rickroll the Defiant.

That is one pop culture reference I just do not get. What is rickrolling? I get Rick Astley music, but it's good music. I have a couple of his songs on my iPod. Where did this phrase come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling#History