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I forget what the USS Lion is. is she a bog standard Miranda or is she a Refit type?
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Huh, it's like a portable one-ship version of Ixaria's Iron Dome, combined with the deflector dish torpedo evasion shenanigans that Excelsiors can do*.
Man, I really wish we could reverse engineer that Iron Dome system.
* according to this omake - in fact, Chekov might have learned this very trick from this battle.
Hah! I was half-expecting the Lion to make an appearance, but I would've thought it would appear much earlier in the Aga Carmide system. As in, it would've been one of the ships detected earlier that turned out to be the Daedalus class. But now she appears in Alpha Centauri!
Well, considering that there's no temporal anomaly in Alpha Centauri, and no description of such temporal anomaly spitting out the Lion, I'd bet she appeared in Aga Carmide at a separate time than when the others encountered and started chasing the mentats. And when she detected the very loud warp signature with the "clear trail of tachyons" along with the other Starfleet-esque signatures, she decided to discretely trail them at a comfortable warp.
But if the Lion did arrive in Aga Carmide after the others, then surely she would've met the Enterprise-B that should still be stuck in the system desperately trying to repair her warp drive, and thus the Lion's crew should've known what the situation was all about. So maybe the Lion arrived earlier and decided to (very prudently) move away from the anomaly before the others arrived, until she saw the new warp signatures?
Speaking of Aga Carmide, I wonder where the research station ended up in. It was briefly seen within the anomaly when the Enterprise-B arrived, but then the storm dissipated and she was nowhere to be seen. It would really suck if the station and her crew were permanently "lost in time". Hopefully, whoever was responsible for causing this pile-up of Enterprise's (edit: and Lion, Nash's former command, coincidentally enough *cough*) includes rescuing that research station (and Enterprise-B of course!) when resolving this mess of casual loops.
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We lost her before we had the option of carrying out the refits. On the other hand, a stock Miranda is the same ship class used by KHAAAAAN! in Star Trek II, so she mounts weapons not to be despised and may well have as much raw firepower as any of our other ships present.
That stunt was all on Commander Kole, bro.
Seriously, Kole was using the deflector very close to as intended, as an instrument that stabilizes and interacts with the warp field, generating a supporting component of the warp field that deflects things that would otherwise strike the ship while traveling at FTL speeds. This necessarily requires the dish to be able to cause some amount of spacetime curvature. Which it did, in this case, but the dish operating in isolation and on short notice behaved in an unusual way that the Sydraxian ships' more boring and conventional sensors didn't recognize. Thus "SPACETIME ANOMALY."
What Betarre is doing is if anything even wackier and weirder.
This is what it's like for the Klingons, the Romulans and the Cardassians every time they fight the Federation.
Waves of one off super science pulled out of the deflector dish, tuned out of the phaser banks and conjured out of probe emissions countering a more cohesive political group and what should be stronger production capacities if the universe made sense.
I don't like this side of the table, not one bit.
Also: Time travel is just a series of nested and interlocking headaches.
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I do feel the need to note that we did horrible, hilarious science thing to Mentat that she survived only because she got Iron Dome and fast enough reaction to engage it before being Enterprised.
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Mentat Betarre: Weirder and wackier is my stock in trade! ...and my nickname in school.
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its the fucking lion. oh god.
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
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... I like this woman.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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If we get back, she goes on the EC list.
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Not as cool as Ainsworth's.
A lot of people thought we might see the Lion, it was just a matter of at what point and in what condition.
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I'd be more worried if we have a repeat of the last time we had Nash near a major historical figure.
Wait, I got it: the research base is the reason for all the ships being here!
Stranded in the deep past, they bend their efforts to studying time in an effort to get home. In doing so, they observe the timeline where the federation races were snuffed out in their infancy. To prevent that they snatch a bunch of Enterprises, and one Lion, from across the timelines.
Once the Federation was saved, the colony would go on to form the core of the federation's temporal enforcement directive.
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Remind me what hers was again?
No, because reusing hull numbers is stupid. They're identifiers intended to comunicate specific technical inofrmation, not badges of honor. But we'll certainly keep the name Lion in circulation.
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Lion:
Rawr!
However, I believe the criteria for a second FYM has been satisfied.
Rawr!
Probably not.
However, I believe the criteria for a second FYM has been satisfied.
Just once, Enterprise let's someone else use her Dramatic Entrance Theme.
Meanwhile the Mentat is all "Where the hell are all of these Starfleeters coming from!" And the Klingons & Romulans are all, "Nobody beats those crazies in Starfleet at the Temporal Bullshit Game."
Second? Mirandas don't go on five year missions. Captain Volkov gets to join the Explorer Corps for a first if she wants, and possibly a smaller hurdle to get over for a second instead.
Yes, I can imagine Klingon intelligence and Tal'Shi'Ar officers, were they ever to get information about this episode, to sit there, drinking, and going:
"Yeah. Try to erase Federation through time. Beat Star Fleet in a time game. Never have been tried before. Totally. And ended so well for participants too. There is a reason we do not try this."
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Y'all have no soul. Lion-B or bust.
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No when the current lion decomissions we will have a new ship named lion just not reuse the hull number
This makes a lot of sense, actually.
There must be a reason why Department of Temporal Investigations is not all over this incident.
It must have been "canon" for them, and frankly someone going ten million years back in time to change history by eradicating life on at least three planets is an incident that would warrant creation of an organization to preserve the time flow.
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I reject your plan and demand that as an honorary Enterprise, Lion is allowed to keep her hull number.