Two Enterprise crewmen, including Science Officer Commander Sonak as well as a female officer, were killed in a transporter malfunction while beaming to the ...
late reply but i saw that ep as a kid and immediately thought it was about the Troubles. really soured me on the IRA until I realized they were actually a good thing
i forgot all about the subspace teleporters though! it was scary how OP they seemed despite the super cancer. you’d think the Dominion would have no problem handing the tech out to all their slave warriors but hey that’s Star Trek for you. everything is so self-contained until DS9 and maybe Lower Decks
The Dominion always struck me as more of a technology-scavenger organization. Not much R&D of their own, an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality. Could be that no-one in their part of the galaxy invented something like it.
late reply but i saw that ep as a kid and immediately thought it was about the Troubles. really soured me on the IRA until I realized they were actually a good thing
i forgot all about the subspace teleporters though! it was scary how OP they seemed despite the super cancer. you’d think the Dominion would have no problem handing the tech out to all their slave warriors but hey that’s Star Trek for you. everything is so self-contained until DS9 and maybe Lower Decks
It’s funny you mention the IRA analogy, because that’s the same episode that had some controversy in the UK.
The Dominion always struck me as more of a technology-scavenger organization. Not much R&D of their own, an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality. Could be that no-one in their part of the galaxy invented something like it.
oh yeah that makes sense. kind of like Star Trek’s version of warhammer 40k’s Imperium