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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1269286" data-attributes="member: 6929"><p>Well, if we're going to allow Geordi and Wesley on Starfleet's side, we have to include some of the more useful personalities available to B5. It's only fair, right?</p><p></p><p>So we're probably looking at a nuclear minefield through G'Kar's connections to Narn weapon caches; Sheridan's tactical and pull-a-victory-out-of-thin-air ability (which often works within minutes and has been planned for months, as opposed to the Starfleet half-an-episode-to-fix-transporters methodology); some guy called Kosh who walks through a literal hail of energy weapons fire without noticing; and Ivanova, who I'm guessing could make Klingons blush.</p><p></p><p>So here's my perception of how it would go if they had to fight:</p><p></p><p>Starfleet vessel meets Earth Alliance vessel. Earth Alliance vessel is better in combat, and causes hull breaches on decks 8 through 14 before Starfleet engineers figure out that there's a vulnerable plasma conduit feeding the main reactor on the destroyer, and use a reversed tachyon pulse to destabilise it, blowing up the vessel. Starfleet emerges victorious.</p><p></p><p>Sheridan hears of this and launches a lightning strike in two parts: travelling through hyperspace to avoid Federation sensors ("Sir! There's a subspace resonance anomaly!" "What is it?" "Let me recalibrate the HULL BREACHES ON DECKS X THRU Y!"), they strike first at the Utopia Planetia shipyards, then jump out before any coordinated response and head for Earth, thus crippling both the production and command structure of Starfleet.</p><p></p><p>If this carries on, Starfleet no doubt assembles a fleet from the far corners of Federation territory, but it takes them a couple of months (see DS9) and only a single ship will make it through the enemy battle wall (again, see DS9). That one ship, if it attacks B5, will no doubt be surprised at how well defended the station is, but presumably cause some sort of victory disproportionate to its size. The Feds probably take B5.</p><p></p><p>Maybe they use DS9 as a collar. I don't know if it would fit over B5, though.</p><p></p><p>The only way for Babylon 5 to resolve this is with a years-long story arc in which, while running from sanctuary to sanctuary, they rebuild their tattered fleets, alliances, and command structures, and eventually snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Starfleet doesn't have the longterm narrative support to do this, so in the end, B5 would have to win. It would, of course, be a bittersweet victory.</p><p></p><p>So that's my half-realistic, half-narrative reason why B5 has to win. Eventually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 1269286, member: 6929"] Well, if we're going to allow Geordi and Wesley on Starfleet's side, we have to include some of the more useful personalities available to B5. It's only fair, right? So we're probably looking at a nuclear minefield through G'Kar's connections to Narn weapon caches; Sheridan's tactical and pull-a-victory-out-of-thin-air ability (which often works within minutes and has been planned for months, as opposed to the Starfleet half-an-episode-to-fix-transporters methodology); some guy called Kosh who walks through a literal hail of energy weapons fire without noticing; and Ivanova, who I'm guessing could make Klingons blush. So here's my perception of how it would go if they had to fight: Starfleet vessel meets Earth Alliance vessel. Earth Alliance vessel is better in combat, and causes hull breaches on decks 8 through 14 before Starfleet engineers figure out that there's a vulnerable plasma conduit feeding the main reactor on the destroyer, and use a reversed tachyon pulse to destabilise it, blowing up the vessel. Starfleet emerges victorious. Sheridan hears of this and launches a lightning strike in two parts: travelling through hyperspace to avoid Federation sensors ("Sir! There's a subspace resonance anomaly!" "What is it?" "Let me recalibrate the HULL BREACHES ON DECKS X THRU Y!"), they strike first at the Utopia Planetia shipyards, then jump out before any coordinated response and head for Earth, thus crippling both the production and command structure of Starfleet. If this carries on, Starfleet no doubt assembles a fleet from the far corners of Federation territory, but it takes them a couple of months (see DS9) and only a single ship will make it through the enemy battle wall (again, see DS9). That one ship, if it attacks B5, will no doubt be surprised at how well defended the station is, but presumably cause some sort of victory disproportionate to its size. The Feds probably take B5. Maybe they use DS9 as a collar. I don't know if it would fit over B5, though. The only way for Babylon 5 to resolve this is with a years-long story arc in which, while running from sanctuary to sanctuary, they rebuild their tattered fleets, alliances, and command structures, and eventually snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Starfleet doesn't have the longterm narrative support to do this, so in the end, B5 would have to win. It would, of course, be a bittersweet victory. So that's my half-realistic, half-narrative reason why B5 has to win. Eventually. [/QUOTE]
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