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The "Homefront" mention was in regards to Earth not having been at such a state of emergency since the Romulan War. Whether or not it was attacked directly wasn't addressed, but obviously they thought the risk was there.
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OTOH, the Romulan war was probably the last time there had been a need to get the homefront to prepare for a war effort. The Borg and V'Ger and Whale Probe incursions were all so sudden and short that there *was* no homefront in these conflicts, even if they happened on Earth's backyard. The Klingon crisis in turn seemed to consist of minor clashes up until "Errand of Mercy", again something for which a homefron would not be established. And the Cardassian wars seemed to fall right into the same category. O'Brien spoke of them as "border wars", and people didn't seem to acknowledge them at all in early TNG even though a state of war apprently still existed until "The Wounded"!
So even if the Romulan conflict was fought far, far away from Earth (and *especially* if it was fought far away), a homefront would have been formed, supporting a lengthy war effort. This might be a rather unique occurrence in Federation history.
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Actually, the Cardassian "war" ended a year before "The Wounded", if I recall my dialogue correctly.
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Saltah'na
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Another deduction:
Chekhov: "If there was another vessel, surely the attackers beamed aboard that vessel, not Enterprise."
Spock: "You are forgetting something, Chekhov. According to this log, this ship fired two torpedoes. If we did, then the assassins are here. If we did not, then whoever altered the databanks are here. That means whoever we are looking for is here."
Fine, but there exists a distinct possibility that there was one person responsible for altering the databanks, and the assassins could STILL board Kronos one from that BoP.
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Ok, ok ... the assassins could have been aboard the BOP, and transporter aboard from the BOP, while it would only take one person aboard the ENTERPRISE to change the records ...
Well, Spock is still correct, there is still a member of the conspiracy aboard.
Why didn't the Conspiracy consider this and get two of the photon torpedoes off of the Enterprise? This way, a physical count would confirm what the computer was saying. Hell, why not just get someone to the torpedo room and fire two of the suckers off?!?!?!
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X=the number of people who would smell a rat when Valeris expertly tampers with the computers Y=the number of people who would ask awkward questions when Burke and Samno drag two photon torpedoes up the corridors to the transporter room Z=the number of people finding something unusual in Burke, Samno or Valeris suddenly pressing the buttons that send a live torpedo or two towards the Klingons
X << Y < Z
=> go with X, so you have to eliminate fewer witnesses
What the conspirers really should have done would have been to tamper with Scotty's computer, the one that initially suggested the ship was still fully loaded. Then nobody would have gotten the crazy idea to manually count the remaining torpedoes. Clearly, Valeris wasn't quite the computer wizard she thought she was.
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Perhaps the Torpedo room is under high security at all times. Along with the computer that makes the counts. Unfortunately, Burke and Samno were not security guards........
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