Timeline for Why did the Cardassians refine uridium ore on Terok Nor in space instead of on Bajor?
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| S Mar 5, 2021 at 10:11 | history | bounty ended | AncientSwordRage♦ | ||
| S Mar 5, 2021 at 10:11 | history | notice removed | AncientSwordRage♦ | ||
| Feb 27, 2021 at 11:46 | answer | added | IG_42 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 22:17 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Feb 26, 2021 at 19:21 | history | bounty started | AncientSwordRage♦ | ||
| S Feb 26, 2021 at 19:21 | history | notice added | AncientSwordRage♦ | Authoritative reference needed | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 14:24 | comment | added | mwarren | Doing so would be inefficient for us, but I've always thought the Star Trek universe had little trouble leaving a gravity well. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 20:58 | comment | added | ThruGog | D'oh! You got me there. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 20:37 | comment | added | Xantec | @ThruGog The station was built by Bajoran laborers, so to build it somewhere other than the Bajoran system and later move it there would be odd. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | ThruGog | The station can move - was it always in orbit of Bajor? Might it have been used elsewhere first? | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 7:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/651296208800096256 | ||
| Oct 6, 2015 at 4:35 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 3:53 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | Presumably the refinement process requires microgravity. (Or has to be in space for some other reason, e.g., the surrounding area has to be mostly vacuum.) | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | user46509 | @T.J.L. Yeah my point is you have the slave labour pulling the ore out of the mine and then that is transported. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | T.J.L. | @CarlSixsmith, that question has actually been covered: Why do cultures with transport technology use conventional mining methods? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 10:58 | comment | added | Ghanima | Excellent question! Even security reasons don't make up for the effort to haul unrefined ore up into space against the gravity well of a planet. Imho it just shows the deep lack of understanding for the energy needed to do so on the writers side. After all the original function of Terok Nor could have been designed to be something else. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 9:21 | comment | added | user46509 | Can they not just transport ore too? Straight into the holding bays? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | user001 | Opinion here, we have seen orbital mining facilities before (like the one where Data discovers sentience in the worker bots), I imagine it's easier to move an orbital facility over deposits, rather than dismantling are rebuilding to follow the ore. It also allows some security, harder to bomb by rebels. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 8:45 | history | asked | Chris Peterson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |