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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6068013" data-attributes="member: 92305">The Enterprise definitely had to track the missiles to their source of origin.  But, there's a logical thought posted on another forum where I asked the same question:  The missiles were part of the worldship's auto-defense system.  So, although the Enterprise was at some range, maybe it was still close enough to trigger the launch.Taking it a step further....maybe the Enterprise wasn't close enough, but close enough by the old, faulty standards of the world-ship's multiple-thousand year old sensors.I'm wondering if James Blish tackled this in the novelization of the episode.I also understand that Chris Bennett's Ex Machina is a must read Star Trek novel that takes place just after TMP and features that episode.  Maybe it's addressed there.</blockquote>