quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: It's possible that the relay needs regular maintence and that priority channels require someone there to prevent some foreign power from setting up a communications tap.
Possible... Someone did just that to the MIDAS array. Still, it never really seemed like an important place, nor one really far from help - or replacement, for that matter. I'd say that all the relay stations would be visually inspected by patrols on a minimum schedule; all those Excelsiors have to do SOMETHING...
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All those Excelsiors are desperately needed to serve as taxis for the visiting admirals of the week. Besides, everyone knows that exploration on Trek can only be accomplished by the biggest/newest starship (at least we never hear of other ships doing anything like that). Excelsiors also serve the vital role of depleating the Dominion's weapon energy reserves and keeping Jem'Hadar weapons crews at the peak performance.
I'd be intresting to see a subspace array (manned) with some defensive capabilities- stuff that is stationed out by Tholian, Tzenkethi, Cardassian, Romulan or Breen space.
Fuck, when you think about it, the Federation really has few friends.
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So, er, where the hell was the Epsilon 9 Station anyway? I always just assumed it was near Klingon space (not that it makes its position any clearer). But maybe it was a comms array much nearer to Earth. What is it, three days as the V'ger flies? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it didn't seem to have ANY defensive capacity.
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