The Dominion's capture of DS9

[Deepcrush]

After seeing what they did with DS9, I wouldn't call it uber but it would on its own be as much as a dozen times stronger.

[kostmayer]

I'd have thought that they would have had some pretty powerful defense systems. Aren't these the equivalent of shipyards? They'd be a prime target in wartime, and wouldn't exactly be hard to hit

[Teaos]

Wouldnt be hard to hit? You mean apart from being deep in Federation territory in orbit of core worlds?

[Reliant121]

identical stations have been seen in less core territories. They would very likely have advanced weapons systems, IMO.

[KuvahMagh]

The number of time those "Core World" Systems have been threatened kind of mutes the point about their placement. We know Earth is not terribly far from the Klingon & Romulan Borders and since Spacedock was created while the UFP was still in its Cold War with the Klingons I would expect it to have some defences.

[Deepcrush]

Also, when was the last time anyone heard of someone attack a major starbase? The biggest station we've heard of was DS9. Now, DS9 had some nice fire power but I doubt she's anywhere even close to that of a SB74...

Just think of what I could do with a starbase like that.....

[Captain Seafort]

Just think of what I could do with a starbase like that.....

Absolutely nothing. You'd just sit there, safe from any attack, while your enemy isolated the system and conquered the rest of the galaxy.

[Sionnach Glic]

Or simply blockaded the station and waited for the crew to starve to death.

[Deepcrush]

I was thinking about what kind of upgrades I could make to something of that size. Weapons, sheilds, what types of ships I'd be building.... You, happy thoughts

[Deepcrush]

Or simply blockaded the station and waited for the crew to starve to death.

Umm, we're in SOL over top of Earth. Somehow not a smart place to stand. Seaforts plan is better. Block off the system and leave it be while you conquered the rest of the galaxy. Though, would be a nice place to hire on for building ships...

So many happy ideas...

[Sionnach Glic]

What's wrong with just blockading the whole planet and blasting surface installations with long-range torpedo fire?

Actualy, that'd be the perfect way to take out one of those super stations. They can't move, so just stay out of phaser range and lob tonnes of torps at it.

[Deepcrush]

Because you'd run out of torps long before those stations ran out of shields. Plus phaser fire would bring down most before they even hit. The only race to match the UFP in torps is the Breen.

[KuvahMagh]

Because you'd run out of torps long before those stations ran out of shields. Plus phaser fire would bring down most before they even hit. The only race to match the UFP in torps is the Breen.

I don't understand your remark about the Breen, from what I remember they used either Phaser or Disruptors (one separate occasions they were claimed to use one or the other)...

[Sionnach Glic]

Because you'd run out of torps long before those stations ran out of shields. Plus phaser fire would bring down most before they even hit. The only race to match the UFP in torps is the Breen.

It would depend on how many ships you had firing. You can't blockade anything with just one ship.
AndI don't think we've ever seen phasers shoot down torps.

[Deepcrush]

Not at short range but at long range when you see them coming you could just set your phasers to fire in pattern at the torps. I doubt it takes to much to take down a torp. Don't see them having much armour or shielding.