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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] But don't you need hardware and dedicated subsystems to create an EM pulse? My belief is that the Sisko program caused a variety of things to happen that would in fact make things WORSE than when the Cardassians left the station the first time. When a starship self-destructs, fandom holds it that you can either release the seals on the antimatter storage bottles and instantly vaporize the ship, or do a variety of other things. These include demolition charges, overloading phaser arrays, computer cores, and anything else with a charge in it, venting atmosphere, etc. I believe that Sisko-197 caused a lot of the latter to happen. Matrix's idea is basically like leaving a car to your bully neighbor but taking away the keys; your neighbor has the car, but can't do anything with it that he'd find really useful. If you really didn't want your neighbor to be able to use your car while you're away, you'd not only have the keys melted down, but you'd remove the CD player, empty out the gas tank, and smash the dashboard. It could all be repaired eventually, but it'd really cost alot and piss your neighbor off while you're at it. So I think Sisko-197 accomplished all of that, without needing an EMP device. Removing the regulator taps on the phaser arrays would cause them to overload and explode. Ditto for the launch mechanisms on the torpedo launchers, shield generators, and computer core. At the same time, the computer program would have left certain critical systems intact, or at least easily repairable - stuff like the lights and backup life support system would be working. An EMP device (or something like what Matrix is suggesting) would not be so discriminating. We just didn't see certain things blow up because it would have been very expensive to show - note that following the departure of the Defiant and Rotarran, there were no exterior shots of the station. For all we know, when Dukat's ship docked, DS9 didn't look so hot. I realize that some people just want to believe that DS9 still has its super duper weapons array. But from a practical standpoint, I really don't think it survived "Call to Arms", and whatever weapons it had afterwards just weren't the same. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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