Voyager the Ubership

[Sionnach Glic]

IIRC, the Dreadnought had a few gigatonnes of explosive force in it. I think that would have been about enough to do it.

[Captain Seafort]

About 40 GT - the equivalent of thousands of PTs.

[thelordharry]

Which must surely beg the question, why don't the UFP have a few of these lurking around at strategic points for such eventualities?

What's that? Borg Cube? Ahhh, whatever, one dreadnought to go please

[Captain Seafort]

Which must surely beg the question, why don't the UFP have a few of these lurking around at strategic points for such eventualities?

Two possibilities:

1) They're too stupid to think of it.

2) "Dreadnought" was sent after strategic targets - large Maquis or Cardassian bases. It's guidance system may not be good enough to hit such a small, and relatively manoeuverable target as a Borg cube.

[Reliant121]

Which must surely beg the question, why don't the UFP have a few of these lurking around at strategic points for such eventualities?

Two possibilities:

1) They're too stupid to think of it.

2) "Dreadnought" was sent after strategic targets - large Maquis or Cardassian bases. It's guidance system may not be good enough to hit such a small, and relatively manoeuverable target as a Borg cube.

You would think that the Guidance system is as advanced as the rest of the technology on the Dreadnought and It seemed fairly good to me. Reacting to situation, dealing with internal operatives, attacking hostile assault vessels.

[Captain Seafort]

You would think that the Guidance system is as advanced as the rest of the technology on the Dreadnought and It seemed fairly good to me. Reacting to situation, dealing with internal operatives, attacking hostile assault vessels.

Why should it? PTs frequently miss enemy ships, even at point blank range. Why should a far larger and less manoeuverable missile be any different?

[Reliant121]

You would think that the Guidance system is as advanced as the rest of the technology on the Dreadnought and It seemed fairly good to me. Reacting to situation, dealing with internal operatives, attacking hostile assault vessels.

Why should it? PTs frequently miss enemy ships, even at point blank range. Why should a far larger and less manoeuverable missile be any different?

Quite true.

[Sionnach Glic]

Agreed. They'd only really be useful against static or unmaneouverable targets.

[Mark]

But how hard could it be to adapt the power of the dreadnaught to say, a remote piloting system (we have those today)? That kind of weapon, while expensive to field, COULD be the difference in a battle with the Borg.

[Teaos]

There is also the fact that the Federation hates almost any form of ship based AI. They wouldnt want to give a flying arsenal to big of a brain.

[Sionnach Glic]

Aye. I imagine the ones at Mars were guided from a base somewhere else in the system (maybe on Mars itself).

[thelordharry]

I'm with our own sweet boy Kierann here Anything that appeared that cleverly programmed and adaptable would surely be able to adapt itself to hitting the lumbering target of a Borg cube? Sure, I accept that depots on planets (i.e something entirely stationery) would be much easier targets to hit than say, an Intrepid Class ship during evasive manoeuvres but a cube doesn't appear to be the most agile object.

Whatever, I suppose it's not the best idea to have a huge flying bomb controlled by A.I. Look what happened to the Dreadnought after all!

[Teaos]

The Borg could still knock them out pretty fast.

[Josiah Thompson]

Or we could fall back on that old excuse...

"It's only a TV show!"

[Sionnach Glic]

Sorry, but that excuse only works for MST3K due to the fact that they put that disclaimer at the start of every episode.