History Headscratchers / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

** The situation is very ''omerta''-like. He may be a victim of the FCA's tactics, Quark believes in principle in the FCA's authority and isn't going to risk crossing it for fear of further reprisals.

[[folder: Children of Time is pretty wacky]]

[[folder: Jake's knowledge of ship logistics]]

* In Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E16BarAssociation, Quark's employees form a union and Brunt comes in to set things back to the traditional Ferengi way. During this, he and two Nausicaan thugs have Quark beaten up and sent to the hospital. DS9 is not under Ferengi jurisdiction, it's under Federation or Bajoran. Why would they tolerate this, as opposed to throwing Brunt in jail where he belongs?[[/folder]]

* In Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E16BarAssociation, Quark's employees form a union and Brunt comes in to set things back to the traditional Ferengi way. During this, he and two Nausicaan thugs have Quark beaten up and sent to the hospital. DS9 is not under Ferengi jurisdiction, it's under Federation or Bajoran. Why would they tolerate this, as opposed to throwing Brunt in jail where he belongs?

[[folder: Didn't the Klingons Already Solve That Problem?]]
* In "Call to Arms" O'Brien, Dax, and Rom are discussing the apparently insurmountable task of designing an undetectable anti-spacecraft mine to keep the Dominion from crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. So, whatever happened to that cloaking Klingon mine from "The Sons of Mogh" that was undetectable by "any known sensor array," and could cripple a cruiser ten kilometers away? The Klingons were right there on the station, and this was sort of an emergency, surely the Klingons would have been willing to share the design. They seemed a bit prone to accidents, but the invasion was sort of already sort of in-progress at that point, so it probably would have been worth the risk. Fabricating an existing design probably also would have been easier than designing and building a completely new device from scratch. That's especially true because [=DS9=]'s design had to swarm detonate--20 or 30 per ship, according to Chief O'Brien--so there wouldn't have to be nearly as many of the Klingon model, and they wouldn't have had to worry about making them self-replicating. They could be deployed by cloaked ships, so there was a chance that the Dominion wouldn't have even noticed they were laying a minefield until it was already in place, giving Starfleet a few extra days or weeks to ready itself for war, and maybe even giving Starfleet Command enough time find a couple of extra ships to reinforce the station.

** I dispute the premise that we're supposed to be okay with genocide against the Founders. It's done by a villainous organization. Our characters act to prevent it. In the end, the implication is that Odo, given his different upbringing, will help guide the Founders to a more peaceful outlook... so they do explicitly get that chance at redemption you are saying is denied. And Laas is a jerk but a complex character since we understand his backstory, and his motivation is largely to be left alone. I don't see a shred of evidence that we are supposed to be even partially okay with the concept of committing genocide against them.

** The way it's ''supposed'' to work is that the computer crosschecks the authorization codes with the user's biometrics. We have seen that happen explicitly a handful of times across the franchise: Kirk needed a retina scan to access data on Project Genesis; Picard and Riker, and Sisko and Kira used handprints to set the autodestruct on ''Enterprise'' and ''Defiant'', respectively; breath print identification was seen being used aboard ''Discovery''--a method that was shown to be ridiculously and predictably easy to defeat. Computer security runs almost entirely on RuleOfDrama in the ''Trek'' universe, though, and so biometric authentication is utterly nonexistent when the script needs it to be. While the writers ''are'' a little more consistent with the computer needing at least voiceprint authentication, they're even willing to forget about it whenever it's convenient: Nog ran amok with O'Brien's access code in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E06TreacheryFaithAndTheGreatRiver Treachery, Faith, and the Great River]]" and Neelix used an engineering access code he'd overheard with impunity in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E20Investigations Invesgtigations]]", which, just... ''[[SwissCheeseSecurity uhg]]''. And, as you said, voiceprint isn't exactly secure on it's own--Data [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E3Brothers once]] hijacked the ''Enterprise'' with what was essentially a playback attack.

* Why do they give their passwords away when they do their command authorization codes. It wasn't even that hard in the 20th century to impersonate someone else's voice