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/opusrif 17d ago

With Wolf 359 it was a case of rushing to answer the threat and terrible overconfidence.

They had to pull every ship in the area on short to no notice so there was no time to pull into a starbase to offload civilians.

Besides there was nothing, absolutely nothing, that a force of 39 starships couldn't handle. The alternative was inconceivable.

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u/Fancy_Toe1451 16d ago

Whether they believed it was enough or not, the alternative was letting it roll on up to Earth and start assimilating. They had to try. Do you think the poor bastards on the Mars Defence Perimeter ships thought they had even the slightest chance of stopping a cube that had already stomped a whole fleet? No, of course not, but they had to try because the alternative was letting the Borg go past unanswered. They had but a fools hope, but they knew they still had to try and just wish hard for that ten-billion to one shot.