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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I'm of the opinion that program "Sisko-197" destroyed nearly EVERYTHING of value; this speculation is all but confirmed in the dialogue: WEYOUN: I assume Captain Sisko removed or destroyed everything of value? DUKAT: It can be repaired. To leave even the superstructure that supports all those weapons intact would not make any real military sense. The shield technology in particular must have been destroyed, so as to keep the Dominion scratching their heads a bit longer. All the other weaponry would probably be of little value to them, but leaving intact and operable (or repairable) weapons in a strategically important place, for your enemy to waltz in and just use, doesn't seem too smart IMO. What probably happened was that the station was repaired mostly by Cardassians and Bajorans to a point where it was better-armed than the original spec, but probably not super-duper armed as one may expect. In "Sacrifice of Angels" Dukat notes that the Defiant is no match for the station; obviously it had been re-armed with Cardassian weapons and probably a few Dominion ones in the interm. Given the Dominion's low regard for keeping much of their technology a secret (they LET Sisko essentially walk away with that attack ship in "The Ship") I'm willing to be that they left all that stuff in place when they abandonned the station in turn. Afterwards, I'm further going to surmise that regardless of the state of weaponry on the station, there was probably little effort to improve it back to super duper levels. Following "Sacrifice", DS9 became one of the centres of the war; headquarters for the ninth fleet, and so forth. We almost never saw an exterior shot of DS9 without some starships closeby. What with all the ships around, there was less need for DS9 to be rebuilt to a mega battlestation anymore - and so it's probably less urgent a priority as it became for the Federation to get every ship flying and to keep it that way. So in summation, I think that the super duper weapons array we saw on DS9 was destroyed in "Call to Arms", replaced by a lesser, possibly very inferior Cardassian/Dominion edition by "Sacrifice of Angels", and basically never used thereafter because DS9 became an almost unreachable target with all the starships she had around her. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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