And it took O’Brien to figure out how to not have it shake itself apart with a warp core meant for a much larger ship. Something the dedicated engineers at the ship design division couldn’t solve.
I know he’s the most important person in Starfleet history, but even so, I find it sus that he could do in two weeks what the starship designers couldn’t figure out at all with essentially unlimited time and resources. Surely their “miracle worker” engineers aren’t all in deep-space postings on starships or space stations, right?
He ALSO gets to strap a bunch of guns to the place. Can’t forget that.
Starfleet: We aren’t a military, we just want to explore and do science
DS9: no, see, you don’t understand, we NEED the Defiant. And do you expect us to just, what? NOT use it?
The Defiant was what Sisko was working on between Wolf 359 and getting command of the station. Of course he wanted it!
And it took O’Brien to figure out how to not have it shake itself apart with a warp core meant for a much larger ship. Something the dedicated engineers at the ship design division couldn’t solve.
I know he’s the most important person in Starfleet history, but even so, I find it sus that he could do in two weeks what the starship designers couldn’t figure out at all with essentially unlimited time and resources. Surely their “miracle worker” engineers aren’t all in deep-space postings on starships or space stations, right?
I always head-canon that it was related to his specific experience dealing with the Cardassuan crap on DS9.
i headcanon it was the phase inverters in the, um, transporter buffers