Does Riker have his beard yet or no?
Asking the real critical question.
Pre-beard, I only give them one episode.
Yes, but he is also bald.
Yes, but he is also bald.
one issue is supplies and maintenance, but voyager showed a federation ship can handle itself for a long term without federation support.
and a rogue federation ship would be a great star trek show
Voyager was actually built for long-term, unsupported missions: smaller crew, redundant systems, and efficient everything.
It had bioneural gel packs, variable-geometry warp nacelles, and automation meant to keep it running without a starbase nearby.
The Enterprise was basically a flying city that relied on Starfleet support. Drop it in the Delta Quadrant, and it wouldn’t have lasted half as long.
Even the lighting on Voyager is dimmer to save power!
I would think the Federation would make it a priority to recover their misappropriated Galaxy-class starship, and that they’d send a little fleet of at least three other ships right away.
Unless something was causing a big enough distraction at the time that Starfleet needed to send those starships somewhere else, in which case the respective empires would have every motivation to capture the rogue flagship. Again, I don’t see them sending just one or two ships; they would want to overwhelm the Enterprise badly enough to take the ship as undamaged as possible.
If, I don’t know, let’s say the Borg were simultaneously attacking the Federation and the Klingons and the Romulans, then the realists in command of the major factions might shrug and say that whatever swashbuckling chicanery Jean-Luc is up to is simply not a priority in the face of possible assimilation.
They would immediately form a treaty to avoid conflict, even if it cost lives.
If anyone formed their own independent rebellion to stop the pirates, Starfleet would poison the planets their bases were on to avoid breaking that treaty
Starfleet: “Peace at any cost.”
The 'ole Sisko Special, eh?
He was just doing what the federation asked of him. He got promoted after all, instead of punished.
So Picard went rogue, but what of the other 1,000 (possibly up to 6,000) other crew members (not to mention civilian family members and passengers)? They just went along with being pirates or Picard just dumped them off on some random planet/moon? I feel that there wouldn’t be enough pro-pirate crew/officers to pull this off. There is so much Federation/Starfleet loyalty that I don’t feel he would be able to round up enough people to keep the ship staffed (if Geordi decided not to join up and automate the ship). Active resistance from within the the ship by officers/crew/family members/passengers would eventually stop Picard dead in space.
They have an (annual?) “Captain Picard Day”. Most of the crew will be with him. Drop off the civilians and the botanists somewhere…safe. 👀 Decimate, starting with the planet Scotland candle ghosts and any other embarassing enemies. Find the Nexus again.
Not that long, you would see it play out similar to what happened in TNG episode The Wounded or DS9 episode Defiant. Picard is pretty cagey but it seems pretty unlikely they could deal with the Federation and Romulans coordinating and putting significant resources into their capture or destruction for very long, at least assuming they don’t just leave. At that point, they would find it difficult to keep their ship outfitted and supplied when they are outlaws.
It’s a question of politics, not technology.
Will the Romulans see this as potential Federation subterfuge? They may not be willing to allow Star Fleet ships to go in, at least not at first. Romulans won’t really care if the backwater planets of the Neutral Zone get pillaged as long as their sovereignty isn’t otherwise being challenged. Klingons won’t care until something makes it their problem. They might be itching for a fight, but they won’t throw themselves into a war with the Romulans without some kind of plan, and massing up in the Neutral Zone would cause all sorts of problems.
Once everyone is on the same page, it won’t last long. A Galaxy-class starship is powerful, but not that powerful.
