Does it worry anyone else that someone from a spaceship can beam directly to the operations centre on DS9?

I accept it is an exploding ship, so it is an emergency, but the operations centre is the heart of DS9 and should be a secure section. Also shouldn’t emergency beam-ins be directed to somewhere like the infirmary?

  • Gabe BellOP
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    21 year ago

    It gets weirder – in “Rules of Acquisition” (I think it is), Zek’s servant walks straight into Ops to give Kira a present.

    The servant of a visiting Ambassador (of sorts) has direct access to the command and control centre of the entire station? That doesn’t seem… odd to anyone else?

    • Speckle
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      11 year ago

      Don’t Keiko and Molly come up to ops at points as well?

      • Gabe BellOP
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        11 year ago

        So far (just based on my memories and re-watch) they’ve been transported there by Rumplestiltskin (I kid you not) and sometimes visit with Miles (in his company). I can’t remember if they just turn up.

        But at least they are – arguably – station personnel. Keiko is a teacher/botanist and Molly is… okay, she’s a kid, but she’s Miles’ daughter as opposed to a random stranger who probably shouldn’t be there (if that makes sense?).

        • Speckle
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          21 year ago

          I do remember Rumplestiltskin! That was a weird one.

          Yeah they do have slightly more excuse I guess, there was no excuse to beam them directly to ops. Was Odo there? I doubt he’d have let it happen lol