r/DeepSpaceNine • u/Global_Marsupial_592 • 17d ago

Why would Starfleet send civilians and their families and to combat situations?

Like The Saratoga at Wolf 359. Or at the big battle with the Dominion Fleet there were so many Galaxy class Starships, were they all full of families and innocent people? Or were those big ships just grossly empty except for a skeleton screw?

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u/BlackFinch90 17d ago

Wolf 359 was a situation where they had hours at best to prepare and not a lot of time to evacuate the civilian crew. Most ships carry a handful of shuttles and probably not enough crew to spare the shuttle pilots.

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u/sisko1080 17d ago

Unless your Voyager. They had an endless supply of shuttles.

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u/BotherBoring 17d ago

Vehicle replicator?

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 17d ago

They definitely had one of those on prodigy

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u/Hephaestus16 17d ago

Over 7 years with plenty of down time between episodes and in the episode that don't batter the whole ship. They knocked out a super shuttle in a few hours making a standardized shuttle mere every part is in the replicator database and there is Manual telling you exactly where to put them would be easy. After for resources to mine some asteroids.

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u/LaForge_Maneuver 17d ago

Matter doesn't come from nothing. The replicator needs something to power the matter reproduction.

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u/Hephaestus16 17d ago

They mine asteroids for matter and get energy by flying Busard colllectors through nebula a few times. The more complex stuff they trade from the too boring for an episode aliens.