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im wondering how long the trip would take from earth to ds9....in like a normal transport type situation or an emergency starship situation.
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The answer is it varies so widely from episode to episode you can pick just about anything between a day and several weeks.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: The answer is it varies so widely from episode to episode you can pick just about anything between a day and several weeks.
what episode explained that it could be done in one day!! that is crazy! i would assume it would of taken like 3 weeks for a normal ship, and probably 1-2 weeks for a starship.
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One guesses it should be a couple of thousand light years - it was first described as one of the Federation's most distant outposts. And one would have thought subspace communication would be hampered by long delays times, yet on several occasions we saw real time communications between DS9 and Earth.
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In "The Search," Jake mentions that Ben started calling DS9 home "last Thursday, on Earth." This suggests a trip of no more than eight days or so.
We also know from "The Sound of Her Voice" that the Defiant cannot go over Warp 9 because the structural integrity field cannot hold the ship together at that point, unless you transfer power from the phasers, which gives you Warp 9.5. Any higher speed is unlikely, else they would've used it in the episode (after all, it was an emergency).
However, warp factors shouldn't be used to calculate the distance to DS9, which has been canonically established at a couple of hundred lightyears, despite what the DS9TM says about it being 50-70 light-years away.
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But once it's up, it will keep growing and growing and squashing all resistance under its ever-expanding bulk.
If we want to, we can say that Jake and Ben got from Earth to DS9 aboard a high-speed courier and not aboard the Defiant. Ben would simply have transferred to the slower vessel for the final leg of the journey, perhaps picking her up from the "Antares Shipyards, Bajor Sector" facility.
Then again, "Paradise Lost" suggests the Defiant herself can move from DS9 to Earth within what looks like less than four days. But looks could be deceiving, since the timing cues in "Paradise Lost" aren't all that exact.
Interestingly, the only reference I could find to DS9 being "one of the most distant outposts" was Bashir's early off-the-cuff comment about the station representing the "frontier" for him. Perhaps a former "battlefront" qualifies as a "frontier" even if it's next door to Earth?
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Good point. Then again, Ferenginar is pretty well established to be just a short hop away from DS9 - a runabout could cover the distance in about a day in "Valiant", for example. The various maps seem to confirm that the planet is not much farther than SB 375 from DS9.
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