Which spaceship do you take within your own borders, to esocrt someone to a specialized medical facility?
a. A quick, small ship with space for a half dozen people.
b. a fast warship with a crew of 50 and no medical facilities
You tell me.
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A, assuming "within your own borders" is safe.
ReplyDeleteThat's because you, unlike Sisko, are not in love with The Defiant. This is a minor plot point, but one I found annoying.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention that, since I was listening to one of The Greatest Generation podcast's DS9 episodes, and they said that the Defiant was created because it was hard to shoot inside the tiny-assed runabouts. They wanted to have a way to shoot more people going on away missions.
ReplyDeleteHah. That's a fantastic out of fiction reason!
ReplyDeleteA for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhat other Federation ships were available to them? (The Defiant is orders of magnitude faster than a runabout.)
ReplyDeleteAnd by "available", I mean there was a set already built, of course.
Wait, wait ... you have somebody going for specialized medical treatment, such that they need to be transported?
ReplyDeleteEvidence-based best practices indicate that you need a ship with nested layers of redundancy, a very robust main reactor, a security complement, and isolating force-fields ... and even so, you shouldn't hope to do much more than delay whatever the patient turns into under the influence of alien pathogens and/or light-entities.
So, yeah, the Defiant is the right tool for the job.
Okay, I looked it up and actually the Defiant isn't as fast as I thought it was. It's only one order of magnitude faster than a runabout.
ReplyDeleteSo, a runabout could make it from here to Alpha Centauri in about 1 week, while the Defiant could make the same trip in under a day.
Isaac Kuo iirc, they make the claim that Bajor to Trill is 37 hours or something. The runabouts seem to disapear.
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch Well that's ... a lampshade.
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