Sisko's Jem'Hadar Ship Destroys the Ketracel-White Storage Facility

Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 6 Episode 1A Time to Stand

[@DrOneOneOne]

I always liked how Julian's demeanor changed after he was outed as an Augment. He dispensed with a lot of the cheery charm and became literally a lot more calculating.

[@markfox1545]

'Literally a lot'.😅😅😅

[@dukeofurl01]

BTW, cheers on the use of the A word, introduced in SNW...

[@TurinTurambar200]

I think that has more to do with the war.

[@markel4745]

I think it was the prison camp and war

[@andyarken7906]

@@dukeofurl01 I prefer "descendant of Khan".

[@DavidEvans_dle]

The fact that the explosion went off ahead of time, increases the probability of the bomb being detected/tempered with in an unsuccessful attempted of being disarmed. Love the fact that Julian doesn't have to feign anymore.

[@NeonVisual]

"I've asked for 84 cannisters of ketracel-white. They're responding.. Their milkshake machine isn't working. Sir, they've asked us to park up in bay three and they'll bring the order out to us". "But how are we going to get out of the drive thru?" "If we time it just right, we can ram the ship infront of us out of the way the moment they take off their handbrake to move to the serving window". "Uh oh, they've closed the serving window and our card's been rejected." "GET US OUT OF HERE!" *EXPLOSION* "Set a course for Burger King, maximum warp" "The warp matrix is fried, unlike our missing lunch. It will take us 17 years to reach Burger King" "We should have anticipated *McDominion's* ice cream machines might not be working. Suggestions?" "Sir, there is a Wendy's"

[@LordUzaki]

i have favorited this video specifically for this comment. Well done.

[@Shadowkey392]

👏 👏 👏

[@Anthony-jo7up]

"McDominion's" XD

[@gyroscopix8bit]

This is what new Star Trek screenwriters are lacking.

[@Zezlemetkun]

"Yeah...but it's Wendy's"

[@marvelboy74]

Garak really became an indispensable member of Sisko's crew.

[@IMDARKFIRE007]

It's possible Garak saved the entire Alpha quadrant from Dominion rule. Without his tactics that brought the Romulans into the war, the Federation may have fallen, and from there, it's a turkey shoot.

[@JackThor]

@@IMDARKFIRE007 He also helped decode Cardassian messages

[@thfpt]

For a character who only appeared in thirtysome episodes, he sure had a big impact on the show...

[@petedpvlogs]

@@IMDARKFIRE007I think Rom beats him out on that one. If it wasn’t for his self replicating mines the war would have been over before it even began. The dominion fleet would have stormed the alpha quadrant. I think the Romulans would have entered the war eventually anyway. The Federation/Klingons struggled against the dominion forces without the reinforcements. Had that fleet made it across it would have been the end of the war.

[@petedpvlogs]

Of course the wormhole aliens get the final victory for making that fleet disappear, but had the minefield not stalled the dominion for so long they never would have had a chance to retake the station or get into the wormhole for the aliens to wipe them out so yeah, Rom saved the alpha quadrant but Garak is a close second in speeding up the Romulans entry to the war.

[@MrDinmaker]

One thing I love is that Bashir is probably not as fast as the computer, but fast enough to get the answer before Dax can input the question 😅

[@bjornjoseph]

2:55 the moment our math teacher said math would save out lives

[@bsgtrekfan88]

What's funny is if there's anybody else even remotely close to being able to compute those calculations it's not even Chief but indeed Dax but Julian's mind is simply quicker than hers combined with the computer lol amazing isn't it

[@andymounthood]

"It's tricky." "Not if we time it right." That's what makes it tricky!

[@douglasdavis8395]

YES! The script writers, the director, and the characters ALL whiffed on that sentence construction!

[@danieljliverslxxxix1164]

If you ask me, a genius, I would say that relying on computer programs makes it less tri... BOOOM... oh it exploded early.....

[@chadwickerman]

Rest in peace Nog.

[@mitche5007]

Hard to believe the fate of the entire alpha quadrant rests almost entirely with this little crew out in the middle of nowhere.

[@victorpradha9946]

The fate of humanity often falls on a handful of people in a lab running seemingly innocuous tests. Food scarcity, air quality, drinkable water, cultivable soil will determine how long we have. And geologists, botanists, microbiologists/virologists, environmental scientists will determine how long humanity has.

[@Slopmaster]

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

[@OTatime]

Indeed. The Enola Gay and the Bockscar had crews of only 12 and 13 respectively. Regrettably forced by the Japanese Emperor and military, these bombers carried the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs which prevented a protracted Pacific conflict and a greater loss of lives in WWII.

[@Slopmaster]

@@OTatime or the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.

[@jessihawkins9116]

It’s a tv show bruh 😒

[@NOOBlerMe]

Doc: “it’ll take 17 years, 2 months, and 3 days to reach the nearest federation outpost…” Captain Janeway: “hold my coffee”

[@douglasdavis8395]

"There's COFFEE in that nebula!"

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

Bye Cathrin. See you in 7 years!

[@KurtRichterCISSP]

Janeway: "Helm - set a course."

[@dhinton1]

We have to go to impulse 1.3 seconds before the bomb detonates. Dax ....... the computer agrees with Julian. well, of course it does .... they think alike. that exchange tickled me so when this episode first aired.

[@brandonlink6568]

A 17 year trip in a ship without replicators, time to start drawing straws.

[@KuariThunderclaw]

It's interesting to think about what went wrong here. Did the station flag the unusual weight because of one of the canisters being willing, that being why they put up the security net? Did it go off early because of some fault, or did they try to disarm the bomb and fail? Interesting to think about, but it's definitely one of those situations where it makes sense they had no clear answer.

[@holmesw25]

I'm thinking that Sisko and his crew underestimated the automation of the storage facility's systems; this is a quadrant-spanning empire's logistics system that keeps in line their primary military force, it's going to have robust safeguards, not just be some guys in a warehouse checking over each and every barrel with their eyeballs. My theory is that the field kicking in wasn't even a security measure but a logistical one. The canisters were beamed directly on to weighing scales to determine everything was proper, and when one was off-weight, the system uses the field to stop ships from entering or leaving until the mismatch is identified. I imagine with transporters it's very easy to accidentally beam down a full canister when you meant to beam an empty one, or vice versa, and the Dominion can't afford a White resupply ship rocking up to a Jem'Hadar outpost only to crack open their only empty canister. This is why the storage facility doesn't go on alert or immediately accuses a security breach. To them, this probably just happens once every few months, and they didn't want a ship to leave with improper cargo. As for why it explodes early, who knows. They may have tried and failed to defuse it, but even the Chief isn't perfect. After all, the problem with bombs is that you can't truly test them.

[@stevensanderson2817]

You have to realize that these are drugs to keep their troops obedient, they form an addiction and the changelings continue to give them their fix as long as they stay loyal. So they face the same issues as any dealer would with an addict, things like trying to steal the drugs or trick the dealer into giving them more. In this case it could have been something as simple as the system knowing the weight of each container when its full and when its empty. If I call in that im dropping off 80 containers that should weigh lets say 80 pounds and suddenly im reading 95 pounds at drop off then ive got a problem, there should be 95 containers there and yet im only reporting 80. Now I have to think that maybe someone is trying to trick the system into sending 95 containers of full ketracel instead of the 80 that ive been allotted. Plus whenever they transport something it has a distinct pattern in the buffer which has already been shown to be able to isolate and remove alien pathogens and also detect and disable weapons before they are rematerialized. So it would be a very simple thing for the transporter to flag an explosive signature when its expecting empty steel barrels, the only unbelievable part of this is that the transporter should have held the pattern in the buffer and never materialized it, the timer would have been stuck indefinitely until the odd signature could be identified. Then they would have finished the transport and instantly beamed it out into space far enough away to not do damage.

[@commenter4898]

@@holmesw25 That explanation would make sense in modern day logistics, but with sensors and the ability to analyse transporter patterns, they must have way more advanced ways to check what is being transported. I mean, even Garak observing from afar could tell whether the canisters were empty. Given that, O'Brien must have already used a bunch of ways to hide the bomb. Something as obvious as weight must be the first thing to spoof. For example he might remove a part of the canister to account for the bomb's weight.

[@mammutMK2]

Hard to say 7f the sensors could detect it or if he just was listening to the communication. But even with sensors it may have looked like a full canister, before causing more chaos with teleporting the canisters back and forward again (that would have been hilarious thinking about it , garak saying "they made a mistake during transport, they are sending our casters back to check what we received) they maybe just send a guy to that one canister to check and that caused the explosion.

[@mistermonologue2442]

​@@holmesw25while that was well thought-out their systems would be too sophisticated to pick up the wrong canisters and the jem'hadar are so overly professional no doubt they have a regulation on the empty cannisters of white and keep it in the same place every time.

[@stratfordbaby]

Julian and his engineered brain. Love it.

[@ChrisCooper312]

The science nerd in me can't help thinking how lucky they are to be so close to a starbase, since on a galactic scale, 17 light years is nothing, and they can't even be that close as full impulse won't be light speed.

[@Rakonat]

Distances in Star Trek aren't quite as far as we like to think they are, at least not during the TNG/DS9/VOY era. Bajor is at the edge of Federation space, and is only 52 light years from earth (this number fluctuates a bit but usually is around 50), so depending how deep into Cardassian/Dominion territory, we could be talking distances only 3-5 light years. Impulse engines are sublight though we get wildly different numbers for just what different ships can attain, but we generally see anything from .01c or 1% the speed of light up to .75C for some ships, but these numbers themselves are meaningless since there really isn't a maximum speed in the vacuum of space apart from C though I'm sure the technobabble would go on how they can't go faster than certain speeds without deflectors or space dust would pulverize the hull. If we go with the .25C being what they can safely sustain then that would put them roughly 4.25 LY from the nearest Federation Station, assuming they had enough supplies to last 17 years.

[@scottmatheson3346]

the federation is 8000 lightyears across, but bajor happens to be just 50 lightyears away? i think there's no actual consistency to be used here.

[@Rakonat]

I have no idea where you're getting info that the Federation is 8000 light years across. Qo'nos is only 4 days from Earth using Warp 4.5, and Risa in TNG is canonically stated to be 90 light years from Earth, the furthest any human colony had been at the time. UFP is surrounded nearly on three sides by Romulans, Cardassians and Klingons so they don't have much room to expand, ontop of Warp Engines not being nearly as fast as people seem to think they are. Inconsistent as the warp scale is, warp 5 could on average do 2-4 light years per day, while Warp 8 speeds seem to hover around 6 ly/day and Voyager being the fastest canonical ship couldn't even accomplish 10 ly/day. I'm not sure where you're getting this 8,000 light years across the federation, given it would take years for a ship to travel from the border to earth in the center of the UFP. @@scottmatheson3346

[@resiplayerz]

Presumably the Ketracel-White Storage Facility would be hidden but close to major shipping routes as all dominion ships from all over the quadrant need to regularly resupply.. Naturally federation starbases would be in those same high traffic areas to cater for the restocking and maintenance needs of federation ships.

[@LordTalax]

full impulse is only .25c so yeah it takes a while to get anywhere.

[@epiendless1128]

Conveniently, the next episode shows they are within easy impulse range of a nebula. For scale, the nearest nebula to Earth is 700 light years away and about 3 light years across. (edit: oh, it was a _dark matter_ nebula. You're never more than a few minutes away from one of those lads.)

[@johnnelson7192]

No one has ever paid attention to this. But this is the very first visual effects of showing a dominion shield. EVER

[@Sovereign01]

If the core matrix is fried, the nacelles should be dark because there's no power going to them, but they're still lit.

[@Westyrulz]

17 years to reach a Federation Starbase is not so bad,it allows plenty of time to catch up on your reading.

[@SenileOtaku]

it might give me time to catch up on my anime backlog...

[@Westyrulz]

@@SenileOtaku Or your knitting?

[@Sirithil]

Unfortunately there's probably not much of a library in the computers of a jem'hadar bugship.

[@johngarry1238]

For all its faults and atrocities, at least the Dominion recycles.

[@greg-qc4iy]

It's probably more about accounting for the stores used. If the soldiers skim extra white every time they may eventually be able to leave dominion control. But if every vial used is accounted for that can't happen

[@delcox8165]

Competent enough to detect the bomb in transport, but not competent enough to defuse it without setting it off early.

[@brianmonks8657]

Why try to defuse it when you can just store it in the transporter buffer and transport it into space whenever you want to, assuming you can't just erase the information in the buffer?

[@battleax86]

​@brianmonks8657 It depends what kind of range their transporter has. The station's purpose is to beam up canisters of ketracel white to ships right above them. The bomb's blast radius is 800 km, stronger than the largest nuke that's ever been invented. Beaming it away might have still gotten them killed.

[@brianmonks8657]

@@battleax86 Then just keep it stored in the buffer until they can get an expert to disarm it, or just erase it from the buffer. No need to rush and materialize it.

[@battleax86]

@brianmonks8657 That opens the question of how much space they have in their buffers. Would they be able to hold the bomb indefinitely and still conduct resupply operations? Do their buffers even have a function that allows them to delete things? Dominion technology isn't necessarily designed with safety in mind. If I'm the station's Vorta commander and my options are to shut down my entire operation for an indefinite period of time...which could get a lot of Vorta killed by rabid Jem'Hadar...or attempt to disarm the bomb, I just might choose the second option.

[@brianmonks8657]

@@battleax86 Compared to blowing up in minutes, the question of if they can hold the bomb indefinitely and still conduct resupply operations seems pretty unimportant. I doubt they can still conduct resupply operations after blowing up. I'm pretty sure that replacing the old transporter buffer with a new clean one is a lot cheaper than replacing the entire base.

[@overkillphil514]

Most of the action went on inside my imagination. Great script, great acting!

[@BijouBakson]

17 mere years across space... Considering the mission's success, surely a small price to pay! Bashir finally felt free to be himself. DS9 - a classic.

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

Make 7 and we have secound Voyager

[@Snowwie88]

What I never understood about this scene is that the Dominion had apparently no registry of ships that were either lost or being captured by the enemy. Surely the Ketracel facility should verify every incoming vessel and not blindly acknowledging the request. Also they should have picked up the canister filled with the 90 isoton explosive; we have seen it happening before when a transport is in progress, at least with Starfleet transporters they can detects weapons even before they de-materialize.

[@ambarcraft4476]

There are very good explanations for that, but offscreen.

[@supersonictumbleweed]

Dominion has a lot of secrecy going on amongst themselves. If they want their ships to be untraceable and indistinguishable for others they might have made them indistinguishable period.

[@kevinm.8682]

The Dominion believed itself to be superior to any threat. Nobody knew where the facility was, and no enemy stood a chance of pulling off such a bold attack. It was arrogance of the highest order.

[@Musashination]

That is the problem with Star Trek in general. They made all races technology the same, with very minor between them. The only race that stands out are the borg. Everyone else have teleportation, shield, ftl, phasers/disruptors, etc. Everything much the same. And this brings problems because you can't present clearly where which one stands out.

[@cgraham6]

Same thing happened in Independence Day, when Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith went to the mother ship in that crashed figher. It had been missing for years, but the aliens let it right in.

[@copasetic87]

” ….and this class, is why you always ALWAYS need math. Any questions?“

[@odysseusrex5908]

This episode was always a major plot hole in the story arc. With the Alpha Quadrant's sole supply of the white destroyed, all the Jem'Hadar should have been dead and the war over in a very short period of time, but but things went on as though this ad never happened. There wasn't even a mention of, "Oh, darn, they had another production facility we didn't know about."

[@Einveldi]

Ross describes it as their *main* facility, not the only one.

[@TitanUranus69]

If i remember correctly thats what the son'a were for in the movie Insurrection

[@Mandolatron]

I want to see a series in which they fly for 17 years with little to no Adventures

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

You do? You don't think that would be a bit boring?

[@Mandolatron]

@@TheNoiseySpectator Star Trek: Real Time

[@RurouniKalainGaming]

No ya don't. 😝

[@mytube650]

Star Trek: Seinfeld

[@lastswordfighter]

It's called Star Trek Piccard.

[@richardmassey1555]

Ds9 was the best of the star trek serieses in my opinion. Voyager was a close second. Love to get them on DVD

[@BlackDiamond2718]

The who dependence on it for their troops reminds me of symbiotes for jaffa in stargate. Well played to aim that. Even with replicators hitting human worlds to starve out the wraith.

[@mattbodomtully]

….. oh and the ship’s still on fire……

[@JakeSmith-em5sh]

Having a Data around would've made this a trivial concern. 😂

[@dxps26]

they kinda do, with Dr. Bashir

[@Thy_Boss]

@@dxps26 Yeah, they played hot potato with that a little. Originally, the Spock stand-in was supposed to be Dax, the gnomic science officer with centuries of education and experience. They wisely realized that Farrell was better with front-and-center comedic timing than prim pontificating.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

What a fantastic scene.

[@bjornjoseph]

Fun fact miami to macon ga is 900ish km... thags a huge explosion radius

[@Fushichou1978]

There's also the difference between an explosion in an atmosphere and gravity well, like on a planetary surface. . .and doing so in deep space with no major gravity well (just that asteroid) and no atmosphere.

[@MarksMindBox]

O'Brien: Sure, it'll take a couple of minutes. Sisko: we don't have a couple of minutes. [Sisko continues to deliberate for two minutes] O'Brien:...

[@stratfordbaby]

3:11 Dax: "Turning over piloting controls to Julian"

[@browningcq]

Man my uncle drank that K-white stuff like it was beer! Guy was a monster!

[@robertweidner2480]

Captain Janeway: "Hold my coffee."

[@ironcito1101]

They seemed to have plenty of time to set up warp, have a finger over the "punch it" button, and just wait for the explosion which would disable the shield.

[@alpeshr82]

this was the last scene of the episode and I remember thinking "oh fuck, they're turning this in to a series like Voyager" thank god i was wrong

[@blacktronpavel]

I’m overdue to revisit the series

[@Thundarr100]

It's been such a long time since I've seen this episode, ive completely forgotten how they managed to get home.

[@paul1979uk2000]

All they needed at the end was the Voyager theme lol.

[@jamesjr2006]

After watching, I can't help but wonder who tipped the Jem Hadar off that they were coming.

[@richlisola1]

I like smug acknowledged genetically superior Bashir-The split from his prior personality gives me Superman/Clark Kent vibes.

[@666mengel]

When Miles says, "Doesn't look good," it means we are Blipped!!

[@Locutus]

0:42 What is the point of this guy scanning the wall with his tricorder? 😂

[@blue_tetris]

At 1:30, we see that his job is not yet done. He returns for another scan... for this is no ordinary wall. But he can't afford to interrupt Sisko during such a delicate mission.

[@NeonVisual]

That's a tool, not a tricorder. The ship they are in is stolen from the Enemy and they didn't have enough time to run checks and repairs before the mission, so there are people all over the ship trying to do it while the mission is happening.

[@josephmassaro]

That's Ensign McMichaels. He always does busy work to make a good impression on Sisko. He wants that promotion next evaluation.

[@Haaris.Qureshi]

Leave him alone he’s doing his best

[@gyroscopix8bit]

@@Haaris.Qureshi I love this comment section.

[@paulmitchell4876]

When you discover the Dominion is actually the Freeza Force from Dragonball :P (the "scouter" Garak was wearing :D)

[@Thy_Boss]

They're good props, the Dominion lenses. You're always on the clock, and you're always on camera. Your job is projected straight into your skull. No one gets a minute of vacation in the Dominion. "Constant vigilance," as Weyoun put it, having been bred for the purpose.

[@fameasser123]

Dax: "The computer agrees with Julian." Garak: "Of course it does. They think alike." Garak always stole every scene that he happened to had been in. A real GOAT among GOAT's. We shall forever miss my nigga Garak since he hasn't been seen ever since in any mainstream Star Trek shows, movies, and whatnot. I know he is in and/or mentioned in a few books and comics and the like. Hell he may even be in a couple Star Trek video games.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

we see our dear Garak in Star Trek Online game, in quite few missions. And it's done very well, imo.

[@marieroberts5664]

KZbin - live action fanfic called Little Achievements, done with the cooperation of Alex Siddiq and Andrew Robinson (Bashir and Garak). No spoilers, just enjoy. PS - wonder how much the writers had to pay the actors and the Trek people to do the skit? fair use for the Trek company and union scale for our actors?

[@LBCB94025]

*Was julian a changeling here??* _I cant remember what point in the timeline this is.._ 🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼 #Please_Advise

[@kelechi321]

I LOVE this episode because it is a precursor to one of my favorite episodes "Rocks and Shoals." This episode sets them up to be stranded on the asteroid with the Jem'Hadar and the chemistry in those scenes are beautiful to watch.

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

A slight bit of overkill on the amount of explosive used, probably could have used a 10th as much and still destroyed the station...

[@jhenry48809]

After just watching a 4k original framerate of Sisko, watching this low resolution is hurting my eyes.. No fault of yours, I hope they release a HD DS9 version at some point. Though I know that fell off the table years ago.

[@Paul-A01]

800km blast radius seems like a bit of overkill.

[@ObamaoZedong]

That'll be all Mr. Data.

[@christopherkraft1327]

Oh no!!! 🖖

[@LBCB94025]

*What did they do here??* _Find another ship??_ _fix that one??_ (I cant remember where this is supposed to take place!?) 🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

Hey Jean Luc, we need a ride here...

[@greyjedi1272]

Something just hit me, when they landed on that planet in the next episode they had a ton of white that the Jem Hadar could have used if they had made it to the ship under water.

[@seanbrotherton542]

I wonder if they made it back 🤔

[@yarapoo2]

Was that a bit of Voyager music at the end?

[@Lubetube111]

god i hope ds9 gets a season 3 picard and they talk sisko into the part.

[@jamieolberding7731]

April 5, 2063 39.6K subscribers Hey Paul. I just got done re-watching my Number 1# favorite Season 1 Episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for like the fifteenth time. The Episode is called "Momento Mori" and it is about: "While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under attack from an unknown malevolent force, called the GORN! Captain Pike learns that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means and a highly intense, extremely deadly game of CAT and MOUSE between Predator and Prey ensues near a unstable black hole in a fight for survival."

[@April-dv2pb]

Hi Jamie, I am glad that you enjoyed that episode. I watched that episode only one time. Right now, I am watching Star Trek Lower Decks and The Orville Season 3. I am reeling enjoying The Orville. Have you ever watched The Orville?

[@jamieolberding7731]

@@April-dv2pb As a matter of fact I have..... unfortunately, I missed Season 3! I really really really need to start watching Season 3 of "The Orville" as soon as I'm done watching Season 3 of "Lower Decks" once they get the last few episodes released. I have a lot of shows on my mind that I really need to start binge watching including an early 2000 live action Japanese superhero TV Series called "Ultraman Max", which is part of the "Ultraman" franchise (which is one of the longest and most popular Superhero TV Show franchises out there that I highly recommend you start watching someday).

[@April-dv2pb]

Hi Jamie, I am only halfway through Season 3 of The Orville myself. As for the Lower Decks I watched two episodes so far. Funny I watched one episode of Ultraman Max that like two weeks ago. I found it on KZbin. However, it was not from the first season, So I was a little confused by the storyline.

[@MisterMarin]

They got singed a little. Cue Worf. 😛

[@asvarien]

90 "isotonnes" fits in one of those little drums? Is it bigger on the inside?

[@printezstroman]

Maybe the explosive material is incredibly dense.

[@alwenke212]

the same company that built the Tardis !

[@chton]

they use isoton as a measure of both mass and of explosive power. Same way we use kilotons, megatons, gigatons for nuclear explosions, just a different scale. 90 isoton here would just be like saying 'a 90 kiloton warhead'. It doesn't weight that much, but it has the blast equivalent of 90 kiloton of TNT. We know a photon torpedo has a 200 isoton yield. We just don't know what base material that compares to, what material has a 1 isoton yield per isoton of matter.

[@asvarien]

@@chton This is true, but the way he says it; "90 isotonnes OF enriched ultrititium" makes it sound like a mass not a yield.

[@jamesjr2006]

🤔 Was it ever addressed who tipped off the Jem Hadar that they were coming? Did the Dominion know that Starfleet captured one of their ships and were able to identify it when Sisko's crew reached the storage facility?

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

Dax gets to spend the next 17 years with 4 boys. She'll enjoy that.

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

So ''First Contact'' overture for End Credits in this episode?

[@kevindorland738]

No noise in space.

[@johnwang9914]

The calculations implied they would be at warp judging by what Dax was saying. If they were FTL, then there would be no way for the explosion to reach them as the explosion would all be sublight. The greatest danger would be if some debris got caught in their warp bubble and hence traveled with them. Indeed the calculations should've been for how long they could wait before the explosion and debris reached them not what the earliest time the shields would drop and as they are probably quite some distance away from the base (it's not like our ISS is next to the ground), chances are the explosion wouldn't reach them anyways. Remember those transporters are usually used from orbit to reach the ground so there's no need to be close enough to the base for the explosions to affect them. Remember, the distances in space are vast...

[@Thy_Boss]

As this exact scene shows, distance is relative to drama on Star Trek

[@TryDiy]

84 canisters of Ket? that's some serious shit.

[@MidnightVisions]

gonna have a lot of birthdays in 17 years.

[@user-ie3sp6qe6h]

Whoops 😮! They tried to disarm the bomb and cut the wrong wire. (So to speak)

[@dannyhartwig7595]

Garak is the Real star of the Show hes such a badass tailor.

[@hiuto2]

maybe Quark should go into the Explodium trade, he's make a fortune.

[@rocistone6570]

And just how many asteroids did they stash in their secret asteroid storage faculty?

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

Why did O'Brien use so much explosive?

[@brianjones7907]

& Cadet Nog will need a new pair of pants..

[@danielhamilton1130]

Wish i knew what episode this was from so i could watch it

[@moe47988]

season 6, episode 1

[@SeaScoutDan]

Dude, we gave 84 full canester, and you only gave us 3 empty ones. You ow us 80 empty canisters.

[@coffee_drinker2912]

That flashing eye piece had to have been very annoying to use.

[@Armageist]

Why didn't they just go to Warp instead of using Impulse Engines? The explosion was premature so the Security Net was down.

[@ThePathStrider]

Maybe for security and safety reasons, everyone approaching the facility has to have minimal power to their warp engines. There probably wasn't enough time to power up the warp core once the explosives went off.

[@marcread2278]

I love math.

[@dcolb121]

Oh my goodness...the dramatic music means they're going to blow up all the stars and everything! Oh, wait...it's all scripted and fake. No one is going to die. The script says so. Whew, what a relief!!

[@anonygent]

I forget how they got out of this one... what happens next?

[@nitzky8936]

without looking it up, I think they ended up crashing on the planet with a squad of Jem'Hadar low on Ketracel-white, and their Vorta made a deal with Sisko to save his own skin, and hand them over a broken Dominion communicator, which O'Brien managed to fix and call for rescue. One of the cooler episodes.

[@epiendless1128]

nitzky8936 is right. They crash into a planet inside a nebula. Fun fact - the closest known nebula to Earth is 700 light years away, so how that was easier to get to than a Federation base is something of a mystery.

[@anonygent]

@@epiendless1128 The Dominion base is a lot further away than that?

[@danielhausser8038]

​@@epiendless1128Another fun fact. Terry Farrell is allergic to sunlight so they had her injured in that episode to keep her in the cave.

[@kashattack]

@@danielhausser8038 didn't know Terry Farrell was a vampire

[@printerman99]

how does a Dr. make calculations that fast?

[@ryanbenson171]

He's genetically engineered

[@printerman99]

@@ryanbenson171 Thanks

[@Tiberion]

@@printerman99 His parents wanted that. He was genetically enhanced as a small boy because he was underdeveloped. Couldn't tell a dog from a cat. Or a door from a window. He kept this a secret for years and intentionally played dumb. When Doctor Zimmermann found out, his father went to prison so Julian could continue his career in Starfleet.

[@alexmcaruthur6966]

Question is why can’t the crew hitch a ride with another ship ? Hailing frequencies open?

[@Varekai0723]

They're deep in Dominion territory. Their transmission would likely be detected.

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

They're in an enemy ship behind enemy lines. And when they left the starbase. They were attacked by a Federation starship.

[@Naisium]

I thought they were all going to die and it would be the end of the series. Or, not.

[@jdb2002]

So the Jem'Hadar don't let the crew see outside the ship?

[@FiXato]

"Turning over piloting controls to the main computer." Finally... always annoys me when they try to show that humans (or Vulcans) are better pilots than the computer. (Just a shame they still had to manually invoke it when the explosion went off early; seriously, couldn't you have tied the detection of the explosion into the computer as a start signal too?)

[@WelshmanSudios]

I've come to really appreciate the writers of the older Star Trek shows, Garret has become one of my favourite characters, its a shame he wasn't apart of the cast, his throw away lines like "of course it does, they think alike, the show runners did an excellent job putting him into the show, by the last season, the characters some that we thought were villains, became heroes. it was a shame they threw away the actress that played dax, she shouldn't have replaced her, they should have put carrot into the main cast after that, I know paramount, they stole my script for a new show, I was developing a series like picard season 3 episode 5, they stole ideas like a force field arounfd the warp core and voyagers episode where they put holograms into space as a fleet of ships. all back in 96, but with new cast, they stole all my ideas and sprinkled them into voyager, the films and ds9. however I can prove the ideas in the shows are mine, I still have the Ad and script copyrighted and the Ad paramount from the Star Trek magazine, issue 2. and I copyrighted all the ideas, but how do you prove an idea is your idea. if the real creator of ds9 had a job, I've got no chance , he went onto to create basbylon5. how many ideas did Star Trek show runners really steal. we'll never know. but the writers did an outstanding job nevertheless.

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

3 minutes too short

[@lukeskywalker2116]

How is it that starship with room for a holodeck, recreation areas, and spacious cabins doesn’t have backups of critical components?

[@accursedblackmage]

It's a Jem'hadar warship. Bare-bones, Spartan, it only carries the essentials, which means no backup power matrix.

[@Fushichou1978]

It doesn't have any of those things. They're in a stolen Jem'Hadar warship. No Federation/Starfleet luxuries, very spartan, and the Dominion treats those ships as practically disposable.

[@silvergalaxie]

setup & dumb payoff

[@jollyjoker888]

This Sucks ...How am I supposed to even Try to Dis-cipher🎉 the techno-babbel without even Closed Captioning ...I bet thats why there isnt any CC ....Because " They" / A.I. couldnt Figure it out EITHER !

[@Jguthro]

Didn't Nintendo make a crap eye piece like Garak in wearing?

[@silvercat18]

Well, Nintendo does act a lot like the dominion these days.

[@LordMarcus]

Nah, that's Google Glass.

[@tomwhone9804]

UUmmmm the explosion was early. Doesn't that mean they're all supposed to be dead? That was the whole reason for the 'tricky timing' in the first place. Guess the bomb wasn't such a bid deal afterall.

[@ThePathStrider]

Maybe emergency forcefields activated in the facility muted the blast enough to save their lives.