What Deep Space 9 looked like before

Captain Jayson Day · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 9:41 am What Deep Space 9 looked like before**

Does anyone rememeber what DS9 looked like when they first got on board, it was all dark and uncheerful, now it's a place or fun and happyness

Oompsty · Vice Admiral Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 6613 Location: LA

It was a very dark place. There is an episode where Odo has flashbacks of him working security for Gul Dukat. Forget which episode it is. I'm sure Lindley, Pah, or thegame knows.

Archon34 · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:43 am**

probably

Captain Jayson Day · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:06 pm**

i remember that epsiode, but does anyone remmeber when they had just came aboard

shrek man · Whiz Kid Joined: 14 Jan 2002 Posts: 5519

Captain Jayson Day · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:23 pm**

it was, i remmeber the station in peices, and only bashri was happy becuase he would find many new tpyes of medine

Lindley · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:08 pm**

The Cardassians had looted everything when they pulled out. The place was a shambles.

Captain Jayson Day · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:18 pm**

yes, and all the fights and battles

Pah-Wraith · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:12 pm**

Captain Jayson Day · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:20 pm**

thanks for that, does anyone know the episode with siscko, garak and odo travel back in time and are sentenced to be killed

Pah-Wraith · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:33 pm**

Oompsty · Vice Admiral Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 6613 Location: LA

thegame · **Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:45 pm**

The Cardassians had no use for the station, or it's sister station, Empok Nor. Both stations were ore processing stations, and needed the Bajoran slave labor to run effectively. It made no fiscal sense to try and and move the station, and the withdraw was something of a hasty one, as it was clear that the situation was out of hand on Bajor. The Cardassians could have destroyed the station, but I imagine the Cardassian civilian government, which had decided on the withdrawl, would not have wanted that at the time. Central Command could have overruled the decision, but it did not.

Captain Jayson Day · **Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:02 pm**

the station did have powerful thusters and weapons

Red Quacker · Captain Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 714

I don't know which DS9 you saw, but DS9 still looks fairly dark, and doesn't have much "happyness" [sic].

thegame · **Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:17 pm Captain Jayson Day...**

You can't move a station from Bajor to Cardassia on thrusters, it would take several lifetimes.

The weapons you speak of were gutted by the outgoing Cardassians. If you recall from the early season 1 eps, especially "Emissary, part 2" the station was basically defensless. We don't see a large scale weapon program instituted on the station until after the Dominion were discovered in the season two finale "The Jem'Haddar". Those upgrades took a year to complete and were first used in the season 4 opener "The Way of the Warrior," and again in the season 5 finale "Call To Arms."

Red Quacker · Captain Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 714

Any way you slice it, the Cardies screwed themselves by not blowing up DS9. If they blew up DS9, the wormhole (that they didn't know about) would not have been protected so well.

Not to mention how illogical it is to put a mining station in space, the one place where there's nothing to mine.

PrankishSmart · **Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:18 pm Re: Captain Jayson Day...**

Lindley · **Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:53 pm**

They used Bajoran labor to build it. Don't have to take as many safety precautions that way.

Captain Michael Pike · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2001 Posts: 597 Location: PA

BTW DS9 was built in orbit of Bajor but was moved by the Starfleet crew when Sisko discovered the wormhole. It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, O'Brien used the station's shield to alter its mass which made it easier to move through space with just thrusters...

Captain Michael Pike · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2001 Posts: 597 Location: PA

Also DS9's promenade was not a merchant's dream during the Cardassian Occupation. Quark and Garak are about the only two who were able to maintain businesses during the Occupation. The Promenade's main function was housing and feeding of Bajoran slave labor. Once the Federation took control of DS9 it became more people friendly, but if you read anything about DS9, in almost all the books it is still called dark, mysterious and frustrating in its complex Cardassian design.

Captain Jayson Day · **Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:54 pm**

yes, i remember that then sisko, bashir, garak, dax and odo are set back to then we has with charge with the carrdasinas

Pah-Wraith · **Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:47 pm**

Yeah like I said that episode is called "Things Past"

Red Quacker · Captain Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 714

Praetor · **Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:09 pm**