I like how the station even picks up on the scratch Tucker put onto Enterprise’s hull with the inspection pod in “Broken Bow”. Nice bit of continuity there I thought.
@@steverogers3919 We can all agree Season 1 was rough. Season two was all right, still not as polished but solid. Didn't really hit it till part way through 3, which is slow even for Star Trek
@@steverogers3919 it was great. We just didn’t realise until it was too late. Same as Stargate Universe. It only appeared as if it couldn’t quite find its feet but it was just setting the stage and didn’t really get much of a chance. Then the sci-fi purge happened
@@jamp12008 I honestly think it would have made it if not for the TERRIBLE theme song! At least they changed it in season 4.... but man I've heard a lot of people say that the theme song was what turned them off to giving it a chance. At least we got two outstanding seasons before they pulled the plug
Dead Stop was a great standalone episode of Enterprise - basically a haunted house in space. It also had a classic science fiction look and those extending docks were a brilliant touch.
Making this episode a followup to minefield added to both episodes. It added to Minefield, because a mine could heavily damage the Enterprise to show how dangerous they are, knowing everything could be fixed in the next episode and it added to Dead Stop, because it did not need to waste time damaging the ship.
There is one thing you didn't think of Rick. The more advanced the vessel it "helps" the more advanced the station can become. At least that's my theory based off of how it infiltrated the Enterprise's computer system.
@@jamesbizs No. There are still limitations to every ship and species. The only race(s) that wouldn't need or use the repair station would be the Borg. Every other race would need someway to repair their starships, and the repairs would be long and hard, where as the station can get the repairs done in a quick and timely fashion.
I think the station understood them it was just BSing with them so they wouldn’t know it’s full potential. You wouldn’t have a station that could do what it did that had such a primitive interface.
I like to think that this Repair Station still exists. Just...Operating quietly along the edges of the known galaxy. Picking off travelers and taking people. All to survive. Able to be subtle and silent as it travels through the void. Being better than its counterparts that were all destroyed or appeared to be destroyed. As they too could have survived and there are dozens out there. Just don't know. Space is vast and much unexplored.
@@jonnnney There is no cannon answer though, and at one point it could be both, a thing like this, and some cyborg extremists found each other and the borg was born. I like that idea.
@@TheRealSpiderMew there is a canon answer, though it runs the risk of unreliable narrator, the borg queen in first contact describes the original borg as normal plain life forms. Personally I like the idea that these stations have a separate origin from the borg. That the civilization that created them was attempting to build a collective, but it lacked the technology and resources to conquer so it went with a subtler approach.
i like to think there was one out there that found cloning the crew would be less likely to draw suspicion from it's visitors, and if it asked them to willingly provide dna samples it could get all the spare brains it wanted, or if it ran into a voyager era ship with bio neural gel packs might find those even better than living brains.
Well the problem is that like 24th century Federation Replicators, it couldn't replicate living organisms. That's how they knew that Tucker's body was fake, because he had symbiotic organisms that should have survived the accident, but the ones in the corpse were dead.
@@battlesheep2552 You don't need to replicate living organisms, replicate a cloning vat and nutrient fluid with waste recycling and you can pump out however many bodies you need with a tissue sample and the appropriate tools as any other material can be replicated. Also, the "can't replicate living material" is probably more of a "can't accurately replicate internal connection of neurons" more than anything, as some parts of the human body are under tension, example can be easily seen as when someone undergoes an amputation their veins "retreat" into the body several centimeters, same with the nerves. A replicator would have to be extremely high fidelity, large and with enough throughput to instantly replicate a living person.
What's more frightening than these stations ability to self repair is the idea that they are probably able to place data into any computer system just as easily as they can extract it. This thing could be laying dormant on Starfleet ships to the modern era having managed to encode itself into some historical archive that of course becomes part of a master default database that is uploaded to every new starship. Considering how many digital connections are made between even waring factions its probably been transmitted and copied everywhere.
Hang on, that could mean that if were were to, in the words of the original episodes of Lore Reloaded's "Enterprise Rewrite", Babylon 5 this shit and make things interconnected, then the station programme could become Control, the rogue section 31 AI from Discovery.
The truly great and hilarious part is at 19 minutes 27 seconds into the episode when they pull a completely standard HVAC filter out of the ceiling. Guess the super advanced alien race who built the repair station had a basic American central air system.
This was one of my favorite... Alien?... Station?...thing?... it was so creepy but also innovative, advanced, and intelligent. I really wanted to know who built them or if they were a self-propagating life-form that could build more of themselves. So much story could have come from them. They were wonderful.
@@ponyperson7513 True, although I’d think any power requirements would be met by some sort of M/AM reaction (or alien tech equivalent) and it would only need warp plasma to work whatever warp engines it has to move itself? I don’t know, that’s how I think it’d be anyway!
@@mb2000 the warp plasma may have been a distraction, something it knew they had to spare that made the deal seem more legitimate. It seemed clear that the stations main requirements at the time were bodies. Alternatively it may have taken the plasma to keep on hand for a future ship repair that required some.
@@DavidKnowles0 I agree. But then Federation shipyards don't hook up dozens of organic brains to themselves to increase their operating capacity and neural evolutionary capabilities. I also think the Federation tends to prefer avoiding too much automation in the construction of their ships. In the shows, the characters mention quite a few times that ship and shuttle construction relied a great deal on organic engineers rather than on automated systems. This only seemed to really change around the time of the Mars debacle.
@@DavidKnowles0 As I said, it *should* be. Given this is basically replicator/ttansporter tech on the end of a big arm under computer control. Except a lot of trek writers don't really like automation, or don't know what it can do, so they write as if it doesn't exist.
I started my first watch two weeks ago. I'm not sure I would've liked it as much if I had to wait another week for the next episode. It's so bingeable!
I renembered the Ware being mentioned by Cpt. T'Pol in the "Rise of the Federation" stories. I had wondered if they were related to the Dead Stop station.
that station scared the heck out of me. i was kind of suspicious of it during the episode... but the knowledge that there are more of them out there scares me even more.
I have to wonder how much of this thing's tech was copied by the later Federation, adaptability became a hallmark of Starfleet ships going forwards and this thing has that in spades.
Well we know replicators at that level had never been seen before it’s safe to assume the captains logs noted it and starfleet looked into it same with the ship that had the holodeck no idea how it worked but they could start looking into how they did it
I find that doubtful. Even in the era of Next Gen, we never see replicator systems working in even remotely the same manner as the station used while repairing Archer's ship. "Industrial scale replicators" do exist in that time, but it's heavily implied they are extremely large and completely immobile -- this station had them embedded into each and every repair arm.
@@PhailRaptor Not necesery. In TNG and DS9 we only heard of Industrial Replicators, but if you can replicate any object, you should be also able to transport it anywhere you want with big enough transporter. So I would image that this is how federation shipyards in 24th centruy work. We never got to see them in action due to budget reasons. But how could Voyager get back to it's original state after each episode in under 2 weeks?
@@TheRelativy Thanks to DS9 we know that replicators can be turned into transporters without too much work. So industrial replicators may have that function built-in.
@@TheRelativy The ends of the station's arms, while inside the ship's corridors, were able to almost immediately replicate large panels to rebuild said corridor, -while in uninterrupted motion-. We know from both Voyager and TNG that the engineering crew had to carry tools, materials, and components all around the ship and install them personally. If the industrial replicator was capable of both large component fabrication AND do it in the same manner a s a transporter, the engineering crews wouldn't need to do all the manual labor.
I loved this episode. The idea of this mysterious station that seemed almost eager to help was such a great idea. I always figured the offical request for payment was more just a cover. It might have seemed *too good* if the station didn't want some form of compensation. And I always think of Tucker's comment about paying with something they can make. I'm a semi truck driver and I have a special attachment for my truck. With it I can use the pressurized air for my trailer brakes to fill any tires that are low.
This was by far my favorite episode of Enterprise. No expansive season spanning plot-lines, no silly inter species politics, just a pure sci-fi bottle episode!
A thought about why later editions of Trek didn't encounter them...well, at the very least, the stations (I'm going to make the presumption that they traded info with each other somehow) learned that the Klingons, the Romulans, and Starfleet would all be hostile to them (and again, presumably know what each side's ship style looked like...) and as such *avoided* them completely.
If I were the Borg, and in my infancy as an assimilation process, I would send these out as scouts to peacefully lure in species to gather information about them, their technologies, and their biologies, and the transmit this information back to the Collective to help guide expansion planning and which direction fleet ships should progress.
Strange, I would asume that a deep space repair station would require more ressources then a random vessel could provide. Even if you can replicate anything you want - its getting expensive to get the energy for this over time. Equipping the station with some mining drones would not only provided it with the needed ressources, but also provided a escape option in case the station were under attack from an superior enemy.
This is one of the loose threads that I most regret ENT not coming back to. And the annoying thing is, you can't come back to it with anything airing now because the Federation had definitely moved into this area by the 23rd and 24th centuries.
The “Ware” story arc in the “Enterprise” novels was interesting, although after several novels it really started to feel drawn out. The Ware was being to wear.
loved this episode and the entire concept of the automated repair station. something i could definitly imagine as a useful pit stop for interstellar travel in a science fiction environment (without the creepy cabal like mindsnatching)
What if the station was an extremely old, pre-Borg, invention? Which caused the rise of the Borg by using the technology of the races that it encountered? When many of the races that become wise to what the Stations were doing were increasing, instead of replicating "replicants", for a lack of a better term, it used the knowledge of the many races they encountered to infect someone from an unaware ship's crew or their main computer to live, learn more about the crew and their specie(s); along with their technology to infect an entire crew and their ship. After the entirety of the crew and their ship was infected, they used a hive mind between them, with them linking up directly, and periodically, to download individual data since the technology of the meta Borg was very limited. After a while, they either chose a specific individual as a "Queen" or the "Queen" was chosen by default by the first person infected, which was most likely the Captain or someone with command level training and access. Whatever race was the first to be infected, their limited brain and body was continuously upgraded to allow better integration. Eventually, after a while, they encounter a species that had a large enough brain to handle more upgrades and control of more drones and so on. After more time has passed, the Alpha Version, then Beta Version of the Borg grew, becoming more advanced with literally everything as they encountered newer and more advanced species in whatever way they deemed fit. It is to note, that the high chances that the borg do not invent new things is because the Starions only acquired things and when they took over individuals and their species, it took away the motivational drive and inspiration to try new things. Especially when their were so many other species and technologies they haven't discovered and took over yet. With the very beginning of the Station's "motivation" to simply aquire knowledge and technology as a form of "payment" and using that as a means to broaden it's knowledge as a way of perfecting itself; simply inventing from scratch was never done or ever thoroughly explored as a method to further perfect itself. The Borg Queen as we know her was probably a clone from a species that was evolved far beyond any other race. But the more you clone a clone, more genetic degradation happened. Which is why the Queen is basically just a head. The race of progenitors that seeded the galaxy was the race that the Queen came from and probably the reason they seeded the galaxy in the first place. Their IA started to become so dangerous, that Androids they created were killing them all, along with other AI technologies. The Android factories and the bodies were destroyed, but the AI was not. But, it did live on, completely fragmented and no way to build itself with the technology of any other race. Data was the closest thing that the old AI was like. Which is why the Borg Queen wanted him so much. But, the AI learned from their past that even when technology is destroyed with almost no way for it to rebuild themselves, living bodies can not only be taken over, but cloned as a way for it to be even harder for it to be stopped. Which is why the Queen didn't erase Data, but try to use and study him. Especially since Lore was proven to be able to control Borg Drones. But, replicating Data and Lore was still basically impossible, which is why it was way to risky for the Queen to transfer herself into Data's body. Overall, the Borg AI wants to become what they used to be so long ago. But, it knows that it can not yet go back to only Androids. On top of that, it is probably the reason the Romulans despise AI so much and stay away from anyone that dabbles in it.
I have always wondered if the technology on this station was created by a race who fell to the Borg who assimilated the technology knowledge and now the Borg utilise. As we know the Borg or good at regeneration?
Thing is, the Borg repair themselves via nanomachines, whereas this thing's self-repair systems were on a much more macroscopic scale. Maybe it used nanomachines for finer components, but that hasn't been shown in canon.
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Well done! So we can hypothesize the ENT era station was able to nearly (if not totally) repair and restore itself. Too bad it was never encountered in later series... Look forward to reading those ENT novels. Keep up the great content!
imagine two or more of these stations congregating and descending on the worst off of them to cannibalize it for parts, materials, minds.... It's essentially a pitcher plant. Lure the victim in, and make sure they can't leave until it gets what it wants.
TY. I really enjoyed this. Shoot, I like most of what you do. Especially Star Trek Online. That I really like and eagerly look forward to each episode. PLEASE keep posting your videos!
Me too. I definitely wanted to see more about the Iconians in the shows. They're featured extensively in STO, which is great. But I would've still loved to see them fleshed out more on TV/in movies. It would've also been really exciting to see more significant and impactful discoveries arising from Picard's archeology adventures.
@@heartoffire5902 Yeah I loved the Iconian story arc from STO. I assumed Picard was going into the direction of the Iconian’s but they went into an extreme weird direction.
This one was so interesting, wish they’d explored it more in later episodes. Similar to the borg but “who what where” built it and what’s it’s ultimate purpose. So cool.
There must have been an element of the humanoid brain and cns the station could not replicate. The metaphorical "spark of life", maybe. The doctor noted the absence of live bacteria as well in the corpses, iirc.
Once you know what the secret is, it would make sense to come back _in force_ and try to hijack/salvage the technology from the Station. It would be a epic power leap for most of the Alpha powers of the time. And should your planet be destroyed (by say the Xindi) and your entire species be on the run, it would be useful to try and "steal" the station if you have a big enough ship with tractor beams (from another ship you've acquired). And you can feed it captured Xindi to keep it happy.
I jist want to say that your Trek channel is spot on. There are others out there...but I've noticed that they don't take well to criticism. I just had one berate me because I "mistakenly" considered the Prometheus a 4 warp nacelle ship...not counting the extra 2 only used in Multi Vector Assault Mode. And this UA-camr tore into me. I appreciate all your videos...so, please keep up the good work...we all appreciate it.
Alot of this reminded me of the Borg, with its ability to repair itself, even at the end it started repairing itself, so I honestly wouldnt be surprised if its creators and their technology hadnt been assimilated into the collective, hence their vesels ability to repair so quickly and it needin biological agents as well to help it continue - the collective will of the Borg for example. The scanning system as well in advance as well is something what the Borg does in different ways, it was via probing in TNG and in Voyager it was a visible green beam that scanned the ship before the cube went on its merry way to join the other 14 cubes that were in a hurry to get away.
I dig it. It's not evil, it's just doing its job. It probably asked for a crew member as part of compensation initially, but those encounters probably did not go well, damaging the station and preventing it from repairing the ship, so it just stopped asking. Asking for compensation at all might be a learned behavior as it moved farther away from its creators, or they just stopped coming and providing materials to keep the automated station running. Wish ENT was still on Netflix in NA, would actually like to watch this one.
I dont think it was the Borg but just imagine what a genius way this would be to assimilate the tech AND biology of other species without them even noticing what happens...
It is, however, quite plausible that the Borg encountered one of these stations themselves, and ultimately assimilated it. If there really were Vaadwaur among the captured mind-slaves, those only originate from the Delta Quadrant, where the Borg are from.
Not the first time in a TV series where the writers and directors left an opening for a follow up episode about a thing but then never revisit again. There are several in TOS and TNG.
I wonder what the end goal of these stations was ... were they collecting technology and tactical information and transmitting the details to a remote location? We may never know.
Espionage would be the likely motivation. Keep tabs on your neighbor's movements, their technology, and literally probe the minds of kidnapped members of their crew.
I wonder if the Borg have knowledge of this species and technology? Hey sacrificing one crew member for your ship being repaired is a good deal hehe. Volunteers please!
I just saw this episode last night and really enjoyed it. It had that Star Trek original series type of story where you wonder first what the heck is going on and then how are they going to get out of this. It brought back excitement of the old show where they are trying to figure a way out of this huge problem with little time to spare. There were a couple of things I wasn't to clear on when I watched it but your video helped a lot. You explained everything very well. I still wonder about the station and how it's used. Do the Tellarites us it to repair their own ships and of course it would not be taking any of their people to be used in the computer brain but lures in alien vessels to take one of their crew members to keep the station running. Also the computer scanned the Enterprise's computer and I assume gathers information and technology as well as stealing a crew member for their brain. I really liked this episode and it had that old original Star Trek feel to it. The escape at the end was epic. Thank you for putting this video together it was well done and informative.💖
Rick they're Klingons I'm pretty sure they did a thorough job of blowing up these stations. If I know anything about Klingons if you give them a lot of quantum torpedoes they'll put them to good use.
@@MandalorV7 okay true but in this case if there's a homicidal murderous automatic factory that's willing to repair ships. And harvest people's brains and the federation has warn the Klingon government about this threat. I'm pretty sure they're not just going to shoot at it a couple of times and then say job well done in this case they'll do a thorough job.
This was the greatest weakness of startrek. The fact they still weld in the year 2375 in stead of using a transporter and industrial replicator to build ships stations and smaller craft and effect repairs.
This is a fascinating idea -- an automated flytrap in space. Maybe the writers were influenced by Manley Wade Wellman's fantasy stories about the gardinel, a living creature that pretended to be a house so it could lure in people as food.
If this was Kirk's Enterprise, and it chose a redshirt crewmember as "payment" I wonder if Kirk would go back for that crewmember like Archer went back for Mayweather?
If the crewmember cold be saved, Kirk would do it. The episodes where crewmembers died through gross neglect, are usually considered stupid in other ways.
@@schwarzerritter5724 Was the Kirk in the JJ universe better at saving his crew? Or did re shirts continue to die for hilarious and meaningless reasons?
For all its faults, Enterprise definitely has some classic episodes, just like the other Trek series. Thank you for this fun dive into one of those classics. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)
Sooo... What if the station had asked for a crew member up front? Something like "In order to receive the repairs you desperately require you must hand over one of your crew." What then? Is it still worth destroying? Or is it just the deception that makes you angry?
Were they all victims though? I can easily imagine many cultures that would consider sentencing "criminals" as form of payment for such amazing repairs.
Imagine your the sort of engineer that joined starfleet mostly to get a chance to see and fix all those cool alien ships and your so old not even borg nanites can fix you, if you get weird up their you get access engineering knowledge of dozen of now gone civilizations can get to repair weird alien ships as part of an immortal space station, I think some would take that deal.
@@ThomasstevenSlater "Such a shame that Chief Dillons had to die. He would've loved to stay on a station like this, explore more of its wonders, see what other strange starships would come and go.... ;( " _Meanwhile, in the station's matrix...._ "Haha, *YES!!* Immortality and a chance to fix alien ships for eternity!!! xD "
the worst thing that i think could happen... or HAS happened... remembering this station... is that, this station can replicate parts from any form of ship with the Data in its systems, and thanks to the required payment it might recieve, it could have, when it learns that certain species will just up and destroy it, it would use a backup plan to replicate a new ship using every bit of Data it gathered from ships its repaired or seen in its Centuries, and build a ship to escape, maybe even go to another galaxy entirely, ready to take its next target ship from another galaxy out of harms way and even build more ships to 'act' as towing vessels to take to there station... and if said vessel tries to escape knowing its truth, it would use those ships to take the crew, break down the ship and use the crew as its new link to its systems... happy halloween indeed
I’ve got to imagine ferengi would look at this and run the numbers and think wait if the goal of the station is supposed to be acquire resources then why is the price so affordable and probably would think it has a hidden motive.
The obviously canon reason the Enterprise discovered the true nature of the Ware Repair Station wasn't because of the autopsy done on "Mayweather" but Porthos going "awoo" and the warestation HAD to do likewise.
An unsettling if fascinating and intriguing episode. The ramifications are staggering, but also amusing. If you think of it, if the stations tact were taken to a volunteer basis, the likelihood of users/ship-crews to maintain it's existence and functions would probably be considerably higher for it's own survivability.
What are the creators/the station itself's motivations? It's purpose? It can't be just to kidnap one person per ship. And even if it was, that would imply there's a goal it's building to
Heh. At about 3:30 or so there's a device on the right side of the video that looks like the upper half of an Exocomp laid on its side, with the multitool socket aimed straight up. Reuse of physical assets! Love seeing it.
@@chadcummings1850 I love spotting stuff like that. We can also always expect the two laser beam devices that just sit on a table or along a wall and have alternating laser lights inside their tubes.
This would be a cool thing to have a call back to, a ship and crew finding and being forced to use one knowing what it was ahead of time... But that would probably only work on a voyager like show where theres absolutely no way of them getting help elsewhere.
Secret Space Program. The Station evolves on its own. The Changeling's Nomad model kit in Travis' room, its 'Mini Borg Collective' / 'The Matrix chamber', Star Trek: The Motion Picture's V'Ger style first 'introduction' scan, it repairing itself like Nomad, and so on… Those hints indicated it is actually a Living Machine. It is though unable to do things like V'Ger did. As Phlox had shown…
Is it ever stated explicitly that "Ware" is a play on the thing being an machine intelligence? You know, software, hardware - and given the co-opting of organic brains, wetware?
I remember being disturbed yet fascinated with that episode. Especially when it repaired itself after being seemingly destroyed. Imagine automated space craft and such with a capability like that....an unkillable enemy.
This was a good episode, even though it struck me as an early form of Borg, I was just as curious about the station as the characters...which made watching them explore it satisfying as the viewer. It was also the only true episode of Star Trek I am aware of that dealt with ship damage and the repairs. Voyager had a few episodes like Year Of Hell...but I mean ship getting damaged, episode being wrapped, and the damage still being a problem afterward.
I love this station, if it didn't capture crew and assimilate them into it... Think of one if those around earth, when the galaxy needed retrofitting, it just flies through here and let's geordie have some free time. Like this station could be a godscent for the federation
I always wondered if offered bioneural tech the stations would have no longer required abducting crew from ships. This would have turned them into a great asset.
“Please Place the compensation on the transport platform”
Fun fact the computer voice is Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna Torres) she also directed the episode
*now that is pretty cool...geek cred confirmed*
Considering Torres tends to use her own voice for AIs, it is possible the station was actually designed by her and then temporary displaced.
@@schwarzerritter5724 this was 200 years before voyager (in universe) unless it went back in time, the tech is crazy advanced
@@Marcus51090 That's what the Black Knight said. Or at least meant, since I'm betting 'temporary' was supposed to be 'temporally.'
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I like how the station even picks up on the scratch Tucker put onto Enterprise’s hull with the inspection pod in “Broken Bow”. Nice bit of continuity there I thought.
I thought I told you to paint over that? - Archer
*i liked that one as well...shows just how through and detailed the overall scan of Enterprise actually was*
This seems to be a sequel. Obvious it readed the Enterprise's log, and know the crew wanted it to be repaired.
Secret Space Program
He was gettin' around to it...
I had completely forgotten about this episode. Definitely gonna rewatch this. When ENT was good, it was good
Yeah and since this happened in season 2 when Enterprise still wasn't yet great, it's even more impressive
@@steverogers3919 We can all agree Season 1 was rough. Season two was all right, still not as polished but solid. Didn't really hit it till part way through 3, which is slow even for Star Trek
@@hawkticus_history_corner agreed. I also like how season 4 was mostly made up of three-part mini movies
@@steverogers3919 it was great. We just didn’t realise until it was too late. Same as Stargate Universe. It only appeared as if it couldn’t quite find its feet but it was just setting the stage and didn’t really get much of a chance. Then the sci-fi purge happened
@@jamp12008 I honestly think it would have made it if not for the TERRIBLE theme song! At least they changed it in season 4.... but man I've heard a lot of people say that the theme song was what turned them off to giving it a chance. At least we got two outstanding seasons before they pulled the plug
Dead Stop was a great standalone episode of Enterprise - basically a haunted house in space. It also had a classic science fiction look and those extending docks were a brilliant touch.
yA the effect were amazing when that MAW opened up wide and reconfigured.
Making this episode a followup to minefield added to both episodes.
It added to Minefield, because a mine could heavily damage the Enterprise to show how dangerous they are, knowing everything could be fixed in the next episode and it added to Dead Stop, because it did not need to waste time damaging the ship.
Ahh the Automated Repair Station Entity (ARSE)
There is one thing you didn't think of Rick. The more advanced the vessel it "helps" the more advanced the station can become.
At least that's my theory based off of how it infiltrated the Enterprise's computer system.
What the hell can be more advanced than itself, that would still need its help? If it’s more advanced, it can do everything the station can
@@jamesbizs No. There are still limitations to every ship and species. The only race(s) that wouldn't need or use the repair station would be the Borg. Every other race would need someway to repair their starships, and the repairs would be long and hard, where as the station can get the repairs done in a quick and timely fashion.
I think the station understood them it was just BSing with them so they wouldn’t know it’s full potential. You wouldn’t have a station that could do what it did that had such a primitive interface.
I think the station let the Enterprise "win" that fight.
I did also like how the corridors on the station were hexagonal much like future starfleet corridors
They actually were reused TNG sets. They mention it in the DVD special features.
@@mattc.8839 oooooh, I didn’t know that
*a bit of foreshadowing there to be sure*
The Suliban's geometry inside their ship was also hexagonal.
@@virginiaconnor8350 yall gotta understand the fuckin reality of making sets. cant make different sets for everything and anything.
I like to think that this Repair Station still exists. Just...Operating quietly along the edges of the known galaxy. Picking off travelers and taking people. All to survive. Able to be subtle and silent as it travels through the void. Being better than its counterparts that were all destroyed or appeared to be destroyed. As they too could have survived and there are dozens out there. Just don't know. Space is vast and much unexplored.
This seems like the kind of machine race that the Borg could have evolved from.
I believe the borg started off as organic life forms which later enhanced themselves with cybernetics
@@jonnnney There is no cannon answer though, and at one point it could be both, a thing like this, and some cyborg extremists found each other and the borg was born. I like that idea.
I like the idea that the Borg have started and restarted many times like a plauge.
@@TheRealSpiderMew there is a canon answer, though it runs the risk of unreliable narrator, the borg queen in first contact describes the original borg as normal plain life forms. Personally I like the idea that these stations have a separate origin from the borg. That the civilization that created them was attempting to build a collective, but it lacked the technology and resources to conquer so it went with a subtler approach.
@@jonnnney maby the same race that helped Veger?
i like to think there was one out there that found cloning the crew would be less likely to draw suspicion from it's visitors, and if it asked them to willingly provide dna samples it could get all the spare brains it wanted, or if it ran into a voyager era ship with bio neural gel packs might find those even better than living brains.
Makes sense. Cloned brains have their uses without being fully sentient.
Well the problem is that like 24th century Federation Replicators, it couldn't replicate living organisms. That's how they knew that Tucker's body was fake, because he had symbiotic organisms that should have survived the accident, but the ones in the corpse were dead.
@@battlesheep2552 You don't need to replicate living organisms, replicate a cloning vat and nutrient fluid with waste recycling and you can pump out however many bodies you need with a tissue sample and the appropriate tools as any other material can be replicated.
Also, the "can't replicate living material" is probably more of a "can't accurately replicate internal connection of neurons" more than anything, as some parts of the human body are under tension, example can be easily seen as when someone undergoes an amputation their veins "retreat" into the body several centimeters, same with the nerves. A replicator would have to be extremely high fidelity, large and with enough throughput to instantly replicate a living person.
@@battlesheep2552 Mayweather's not Tuckers
cant clone a brain from blood
What's more frightening than these stations ability to self repair is the idea that they are probably able to place data into any computer system just as easily as they can extract it. This thing could be laying dormant on Starfleet ships to the modern era having managed to encode itself into some historical archive that of course becomes part of a master default database that is uploaded to every new starship. Considering how many digital connections are made between even waring factions its probably been transmitted and copied everywhere.
Hang on, that could mean that if were were to, in the words of the original episodes of Lore Reloaded's "Enterprise Rewrite", Babylon 5 this shit and make things interconnected, then the station programme could become Control, the rogue section 31 AI from Discovery.
@@233Deadman That thought had crossed my mind since this all went down before Disco and crew.
The truly great and hilarious part is at 19 minutes 27 seconds into the episode when they pull a completely standard HVAC filter out of the ceiling. Guess the super advanced alien race who built the repair station had a basic American central air system.
what the hell do you expect them to pull out? actual fictional filters? never over estimate expectations.
It just looked like an HVAC filter, it was actually a ODN energy shifter. 😊😊😊
An HVAC filter made of self-repairing nanites, thank you very much.
Always makes me giggle when I watch it.
This was one of my favorite... Alien?... Station?...thing?... it was so creepy but also innovative, advanced, and intelligent. I really wanted to know who built them or if they were a self-propagating life-form that could build more of themselves. So much story could have come from them. They were wonderful.
Maybe you could categorize it as an evil AI...
I always wondered if that station was able to move itself, that may explain why we never saw it again
And why it would want warp plasma maybe?
@@mb2000 well that is easy, because this thing needs a metric funk-ton of power to synthesis all the materials, that's my guess at least
@@ponyperson7513 True, although I’d think any power requirements would be met by some sort of M/AM reaction (or alien tech equivalent) and it would only need warp plasma to work whatever warp engines it has to move itself? I don’t know, that’s how I think it’d be anyway!
I'm pretty sure we saw it in the original Star Trek when it stole Spock's brain
@@mb2000 the warp plasma may have been a distraction, something it knew they had to spare that made the deal seem more legitimate. It seemed clear that the stations main requirements at the time were bodies.
Alternatively it may have taken the plasma to keep on hand for a future ship repair that required some.
Yes. That thing was creepy. A fine choice for a Halloween video.
I'd love to have seen a 24th century version of this story too. This really did remind me of a good TNG episode concept
A '24th centaury' version should be a standard Federation shipyard.
@@anticarrrot I don't think even a 24th centaury federation shipyard could do what this station did.
@@DavidKnowles0 I agree. But then Federation shipyards don't hook up dozens of organic brains to themselves to increase their operating capacity and neural evolutionary capabilities. I also think the Federation tends to prefer avoiding too much automation in the construction of their ships. In the shows, the characters mention quite a few times that ship and shuttle construction relied a great deal on organic engineers rather than on automated systems. This only seemed to really change around the time of the Mars debacle.
@@DavidKnowles0 As I said, it *should* be. Given this is basically replicator/ttansporter tech on the end of a big arm under computer control. Except a lot of trek writers don't really like automation, or don't know what it can do, so they write as if it doesn't exist.
Wow, I was just rewatching Enterprise. Good series, shame it was cancelled.
*same mindset that canceled Firefly*
I started my first watch two weeks ago. I'm not sure I would've liked it as much if I had to wait another week for the next episode. It's so bingeable!
I renembered the Ware being mentioned by Cpt. T'Pol in the "Rise of the Federation" stories. I had wondered if they were related to the Dead Stop station.
that station scared the heck out of me. i was kind of suspicious of it during the episode... but the knowledge that there are more of them out there scares me even more.
I have to wonder how much of this thing's tech was copied by the later Federation, adaptability became a hallmark of Starfleet ships going forwards and this thing has that in spades.
Well we know replicators at that level had never been seen before it’s safe to assume the captains logs noted it and starfleet looked into it same with the ship that had the holodeck no idea how it worked but they could start looking into how they did it
I find that doubtful. Even in the era of Next Gen, we never see replicator systems working in even remotely the same manner as the station used while repairing Archer's ship. "Industrial scale replicators" do exist in that time, but it's heavily implied they are extremely large and completely immobile -- this station had them embedded into each and every repair arm.
@@PhailRaptor Not necesery. In TNG and DS9 we only heard of Industrial Replicators, but if you can replicate any object, you should be also able to transport it anywhere you want with big enough transporter. So I would image that this is how federation shipyards in 24th centruy work. We never got to see them in action due to budget reasons. But how could Voyager get back to it's original state after each episode in under 2 weeks?
@@TheRelativy Thanks to DS9 we know that replicators can be turned into transporters without too much work. So industrial replicators may have that function built-in.
@@TheRelativy The ends of the station's arms, while inside the ship's corridors, were able to almost immediately replicate large panels to rebuild said corridor, -while in uninterrupted motion-. We know from both Voyager and TNG that the engineering crew had to carry tools, materials, and components all around the ship and install them personally. If the industrial replicator was capable of both large component fabrication AND do it in the same manner a s a transporter, the engineering crews wouldn't need to do all the manual labor.
I loved this episode. The idea of this mysterious station that seemed almost eager to help was such a great idea. I always figured the offical request for payment was more just a cover. It might have seemed *too good* if the station didn't want some form of compensation.
And I always think of Tucker's comment about paying with something they can make. I'm a semi truck driver and I have a special attachment for my truck. With it I can use the pressurized air for my trailer brakes to fill any tires that are low.
This was by far my favorite episode of Enterprise. No expansive season spanning plot-lines, no silly inter species politics, just a pure sci-fi bottle episode!
It probably finds good hunting grounds for damaged ships who desperately need repairs - like near a Romulan minefield
Artificial intelligence, has the ability to repair itself, has contact with delta quadrant species. Yeah, that's Borg tech.
the borg wouldnt have a contract with any other species.
@@nomercyinc6783 contact, not contract.
A thought about why later editions of Trek didn't encounter them...well, at the very least, the stations (I'm going to make the presumption that they traded info with each other somehow) learned that the Klingons, the Romulans, and Starfleet would all be hostile to them (and again, presumably know what each side's ship style looked like...) and as such *avoided* them completely.
I figured someone destroyed it sometime in the next 100 years and that time made sure it stayed dead
There's also the fact that besides in Enterprise, no star trek has shown us much of the Beta quadrant.
This episode was the first time I was amazed by in enterprise admittedly it is the near perfect horror style for me
If I were the Borg, and in my infancy as an assimilation process, I would send these out as scouts to peacefully lure in species to gather information about them, their technologies, and their biologies, and the transmit this information back to the Collective to help guide expansion planning and which direction fleet ships should progress.
Strange, I would asume that a deep space repair station would require more ressources then a random vessel could provide.
Even if you can replicate anything you want - its getting expensive to get the energy for this over time.
Equipping the station with some mining drones would not only provided it with the needed ressources, but also provided a escape option in case the station were under attack from an superior enemy.
This is one of the loose threads that I most regret ENT not coming back to. And the annoying thing is, you can't come back to it with anything airing now because the Federation had definitely moved into this area by the 23rd and 24th centuries.
Could be the same civ that made the machine that needed Spock's Brain.
It was revisited in the Enterprise novels. The stations, known as the Ware are a huge plot point.
The newer Treks would ruin it anyways.
@@mittensfastpaw *the station would self identify as a gender fluid raktajino bar in order to subvert visiting species expectations*
@Scott Mantooth
Nothing new. Remember the very first episode of TNG had a Starfleet guy in a miniskirt.
The “Ware” story arc in the “Enterprise” novels was interesting, although after several novels it really started to feel drawn out. The Ware was being to wear.
loved this episode and the entire concept of the automated repair station.
something i could definitly imagine as a useful pit stop for interstellar travel in a science fiction environment (without the creepy cabal like mindsnatching)
The creepy part is that the station likely still exists.
Where do you think the Borg came from...................
@@liamjackman4604 This is a stretch, Borg could be Trek's version of Cylons?
What if the station was an extremely old, pre-Borg, invention? Which caused the rise of the Borg by using the technology of the races that it encountered? When many of the races that become wise to what the Stations were doing were increasing, instead of replicating "replicants", for a lack of a better term, it used the knowledge of the many races they encountered to infect someone from an unaware ship's crew or their main computer to live, learn more about the crew and their specie(s); along with their technology to infect an entire crew and their ship. After the entirety of the crew and their ship was infected, they used a hive mind between them, with them linking up directly, and periodically, to download individual data since the technology of the meta Borg was very limited. After a while, they either chose a specific individual as a "Queen" or the "Queen" was chosen by default by the first person infected, which was most likely the Captain or someone with command level training and access. Whatever race was the first to be infected, their limited brain and body was continuously upgraded to allow better integration. Eventually, after a while, they encounter a species that had a large enough brain to handle more upgrades and control of more drones and so on. After more time has passed, the Alpha Version, then Beta Version of the Borg grew, becoming more advanced with literally everything as they encountered newer and more advanced species in whatever way they deemed fit. It is to note, that the high chances that the borg do not invent new things is because the Starions only acquired things and when they took over individuals and their species, it took away the motivational drive and inspiration to try new things. Especially when their were so many other species and technologies they haven't discovered and took over yet. With the very beginning of the Station's "motivation" to simply aquire knowledge and technology as a form of "payment" and using that as a means to broaden it's knowledge as a way of perfecting itself; simply inventing from scratch was never done or ever thoroughly explored as a method to further perfect itself. The Borg Queen as we know her was probably a clone from a species that was evolved far beyond any other race. But the more you clone a clone, more genetic degradation happened. Which is why the Queen is basically just a head.
The race of progenitors that seeded the galaxy was the race that the Queen came from and probably the reason they seeded the galaxy in the first place. Their IA started to become so dangerous, that Androids they created were killing them all, along with other AI technologies. The Android factories and the bodies were destroyed, but the AI was not. But, it did live on, completely fragmented and no way to build itself with the technology of any other race. Data was the closest thing that the old AI was like. Which is why the Borg Queen wanted him so much. But, the AI learned from their past that even when technology is destroyed with almost no way for it to rebuild themselves, living bodies can not only be taken over, but cloned as a way for it to be even harder for it to be stopped. Which is why the Queen didn't erase Data, but try to use and study him. Especially since Lore was proven to be able to control Borg Drones. But, replicating Data and Lore was still basically impossible, which is why it was way to risky for the Queen to transfer herself into Data's body.
Overall, the Borg AI wants to become what they used to be so long ago. But, it knows that it can not yet go back to only Androids. On top of that, it is probably the reason the Romulans despise AI so much and stay away from anyone that dabbles in it.
I have always wondered if the technology on this station was created by a race who fell to the Borg who assimilated the technology knowledge and now the Borg utilise. As we know the Borg or good at regeneration?
Thing is, the Borg repair themselves via nanomachines, whereas this thing's self-repair systems were on a much more macroscopic scale.
Maybe it used nanomachines for finer components, but that hasn't been shown in canon.
Friendly Reminder: The Earth is not flat,
Vaccines are not evil,
5G is not evil,
and i have all the right to list all those in 1 and the Same Sentence... cause they are classified as all the same:
Classification 'Conspiracy-Theory'.
@@axiomostanes hello. Yes I had forgotten about that, you made a good point there, obviously my theory was wrong. Thank you.
@@axiomostanes *wesley crusher...season three episode one.. nanites...'nuff said*
It's the Star Trek version of Christine. Something crashes into it and repairs are made in a few minutes. 😀
Well done! So we can hypothesize the ENT era station was able to nearly (if not totally) repair and restore itself. Too bad it was never encountered in later series... Look forward to reading those ENT novels. Keep up the great content!
I figured someone destroyed it sometime in the next 100 years and that time made sure it stayed dead
Alice...that shuttle was very much a yandere shuttle...never expected it. Also, loved that station's episode.
I always wondered what would have happened later after the Federation was formed as it would be located deep in Federation space.
Damn, ENT actually just made reverse borg. machine that adds biological parts to itself
So? Voyager accidentally made 100% organic Borg in the Vidiians. They would have made a much better reoccurring villain too.
imagine two or more of these stations congregating and descending on the worst off of them to cannibalize it for parts, materials, minds....
It's essentially a pitcher plant. Lure the victim in, and make sure they can't leave until it gets what it wants.
What happens when you give it a positronic brain tho...
One of the best episodes of all Star Trek.
TY. I really enjoyed this. Shoot, I like most of what you do. Especially Star Trek Online. That I really like and eagerly look forward to each episode. PLEASE keep posting your videos!
This was one of the best episodes. I love long forgotten mysteries and ancient technology in Trek.
Me too. I definitely wanted to see more about the Iconians in the shows. They're featured extensively in STO, which is great. But I would've still loved to see them fleshed out more on TV/in movies. It would've also been really exciting to see more significant and impactful discoveries arising from Picard's archeology adventures.
@@heartoffire5902 Yeah I loved the Iconian story arc from STO. I assumed Picard was going into the direction of the Iconian’s but they went into an extreme weird direction.
This one was so interesting, wish they’d explored it more in later episodes. Similar to the borg but “who what where” built it and what’s it’s ultimate purpose. So cool.
Good choice for a creepy entity! It makes me think of a massive, artificial mimic.
Happy Halloween!
i wonder if Starfleet ever examined those stations technologies. later federation tech is very similar. like the replicates.
So, this station was build by Amazon and the Enterprise crew didn't read the draconian terms & conditions.
There must have been an element of the humanoid brain and cns the station could not replicate. The metaphorical "spark of life", maybe. The doctor noted the absence of live bacteria as well in the corpses, iirc.
Once you know what the secret is, it would make sense to come back _in force_ and try to hijack/salvage the technology from the Station.
It would be a epic power leap for most of the Alpha powers of the time.
And should your planet be destroyed (by say the Xindi) and your entire species be on the run, it would be useful to try and "steal" the station if you have a big enough ship with tractor beams (from another ship you've acquired). And you can feed it captured Xindi to keep it happy.
no you can't feed it with xindi it would be evil, use random pilgrims instead
@@hphp31416 Why not feed it robot brains like the android, Data?
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Somehow the station would probably want to avoid the Borg from the Enterprise era.
Alot of this reminded me of the Borg, with its ability to repair itself, even at the end it started repairing itself, so I honestly wouldnt be surprised if its creators and their technology hadnt been assimilated into the collective, hence their vesels ability to repair so quickly and it needin biological agents as well to help it continue - the collective will of the Borg for example.
The scanning system as well in advance as well is something what the Borg does in different ways, it was via probing in TNG and in Voyager it was a visible green beam that scanned the ship before the cube went on its merry way to join the other 14 cubes that were in a hurry to get away.
I remember that scene. That was intense.
I dig it. It's not evil, it's just doing its job. It probably asked for a crew member as part of compensation initially, but those encounters probably did not go well, damaging the station and preventing it from repairing the ship, so it just stopped asking. Asking for compensation at all might be a learned behavior as it moved farther away from its creators, or they just stopped coming and providing materials to keep the automated station running. Wish ENT was still on Netflix in NA, would actually like to watch this one.
Minor gripe; while Starfleet as a whole hadn't yet encountered the Axanar, Enterprise herself had in the third episode.
I dont think it was the Borg but just imagine what a genius way this would be to assimilate the tech AND biology of other species without them even noticing what happens...
It is, however, quite plausible that the Borg encountered one of these stations themselves, and ultimately assimilated it. If there really were Vaadwaur among the captured mind-slaves, those only originate from the Delta Quadrant, where the Borg are from.
I wished we had seen this thing again in the show. It was fixing itself so why have it be a one off.
Not the first time in a TV series where the writers and directors left an opening for a follow up episode about a thing but then never revisit again. There are several in TOS and TNG.
Hey Rick, I love your videos! Makes my day dude!
I wonder what the end goal of these stations was ... were they collecting technology and tactical information and transmitting the details to a remote location? We may never know.
Espionage would be the likely motivation. Keep tabs on your neighbor's movements, their technology, and literally probe the minds of kidnapped members of their crew.
I wonder if the Borg have knowledge of this species and technology? Hey sacrificing one crew member for your ship being repaired is a good deal hehe. Volunteers please!
I just saw this episode last night and really enjoyed it. It had that Star Trek original series type of story where you wonder first what the heck is going on and then how are they going to get out of this. It brought back excitement of the old show where they are trying to figure a way out of this huge problem with little time to spare. There were a couple of things I wasn't to clear on when I watched it but your video helped a lot. You explained everything very well. I still wonder about the station and how it's used. Do the Tellarites us it to repair their own ships and of course it would not be taking any of their people to be used in the computer brain but lures in alien vessels to take one of their crew members to keep the station running. Also the computer scanned the Enterprise's computer and I assume gathers information and technology as well as stealing a crew member for their brain. I really liked this episode and it had that old original Star Trek feel to it. The escape at the end was epic. Thank you for putting this video together it was well done and informative.💖
This is one of my all time favorite episodes from Star Trek Enterprise, they sure don't make episodes like this anymore.
Rick they're Klingons I'm pretty sure they did a thorough job of blowing up these stations. If I know anything about Klingons if you give them a lot of quantum torpedoes they'll put them to good use.
And yet we have seen plenty of blow hard Klingons that would fire a few torpedoes and then wrap away, bragging about a glorious battle.
@@MandalorV7 okay true but in this case if there's a homicidal murderous automatic factory that's willing to repair ships. And harvest people's brains and the federation has warn the Klingon government about this threat.
I'm pretty sure they're not just going to shoot at it a couple of times and then say job well done in this case they'll do a thorough job.
I'm surprised that section 31 didn't try to capture this technology for Federation use.
Where do you think the food replicators on later ships came from...
Yeah, what makes you think they didn't?
This was the greatest weakness of startrek. The fact they still weld in the year 2375 in stead of using a transporter and industrial replicator to build ships stations and smaller craft and effect repairs.
How do you know they didn't?
Thank you RIC that was a good episode and I do find the world of Star Trek great, VERY GOOD WRITING and CREATIVE THINKING.
Great timing, I just saw that episode this morning
... wait liquid helium near absolute zero? was its previous victim Breen?
That episode was one of my favourites, it was such a cool idea.
Shame they couldn't ask the station to install replicators and hologram systems.
This is a fascinating idea -- an automated flytrap in space. Maybe the writers were influenced by Manley Wade Wellman's fantasy stories about the gardinel, a living creature that pretended to be a house so it could lure in people as food.
The station should have been playing Bad to the Bone as it was repairing itself at the end... fade to black.
If this was Kirk's Enterprise, and it chose a redshirt crewmember as "payment" I wonder if Kirk would go back for that crewmember like Archer went back for Mayweather?
If the crewmember cold be saved, Kirk would do it.
The episodes where crewmembers died through gross neglect, are usually considered stupid in other ways.
@@schwarzerritter5724 Was the Kirk in the JJ universe better at saving his crew? Or did re shirts continue to die for hilarious and meaningless reasons?
I wonder who built this station?
For all its faults, Enterprise definitely has some classic episodes, just like the other Trek series. Thank you for this fun dive into one of those classics.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends! :)
Sooo... What if the station had asked for a crew member up front? Something like "In order to receive the repairs you desperately require you must hand over one of your crew." What then? Is it still worth destroying? Or is it just the deception that makes you angry?
Redirects the blame of the death to the command staff of the ship, so yes.
Were they all victims though? I can easily imagine many cultures that would consider sentencing "criminals" as form of payment for such amazing repairs.
Or worse, just a crewman that everyone complains about in their personal logs, and wouldn’t be missed if they got “accidented”.
Or, alternatively, the ones who would willingly *choose* to enter the Matrix for one reason or another...
Imagine your the sort of engineer that joined starfleet mostly to get a chance to see and fix all those cool alien ships and your so old not even borg nanites can fix you, if you get weird up their you get access engineering knowledge of dozen of now gone civilizations can get to repair weird alien ships as part of an immortal space station, I think some would take that deal.
@@ThomasstevenSlater "Such a shame that Chief Dillons had to die. He would've loved to stay on a station like this, explore more of its wonders, see what other strange starships would come and go.... ;( "
_Meanwhile, in the station's matrix...._ "Haha, *YES!!* Immortality and a chance to fix alien ships for eternity!!! xD "
the worst thing that i think could happen... or HAS happened... remembering this station... is that, this station can replicate parts from any form of ship with the Data in its systems, and thanks to the required payment it might recieve, it could have, when it learns that certain species will just up and destroy it, it would use a backup plan to replicate a new ship using every bit of Data it gathered from ships its repaired or seen in its Centuries, and build a ship to escape, maybe even go to another galaxy entirely, ready to take its next target ship from another galaxy out of harms way and even build more ships to 'act' as towing vessels to take to there station... and if said vessel tries to escape knowing its truth, it would use those ships to take the crew, break down the ship and use the crew as its new link to its systems... happy halloween indeed
I’ve got to imagine ferengi would look at this and run the numbers and think wait if the goal of the station is supposed to be acquire resources then why is the price so affordable and probably would think it has a hidden motive.
Of all the episodes I remember watching for Enterprise, this one sticks with me.
The repair station reminds me of the Think Tank from Voyager...
Because props from Think Tank were used in the station.
The obviously canon reason the Enterprise discovered the true nature of the Ware Repair Station wasn't because of the autopsy done on "Mayweather" but Porthos going "awoo" and the warestation HAD to do likewise.
An unsettling if fascinating and intriguing episode. The ramifications are staggering, but also amusing.
If you think of it, if the stations tact were taken to a volunteer basis, the likelihood of users/ship-crews to maintain it's existence and functions would probably be considerably higher for it's own survivability.
What are the creators/the station itself's motivations? It's purpose? It can't be just to kidnap one person per ship. And even if it was, that would imply there's a goal it's building to
to explore new ships and civilisations, to boldly scan what was never scanned before
I always thought that if they had offered something more valuable it would not have tried to take a person.
Heh. At about 3:30 or so there's a device on the right side of the video that looks like the upper half of an Exocomp laid on its side, with the multitool socket aimed straight up.
Reuse of physical assets! Love seeing it.
Look at the central hub in the main communication room and compare it to the AI entity from the voyager episode "think tank" ...
@@chadcummings1850 I love spotting stuff like that. We can also always expect the two laser beam devices that just sit on a table or along a wall and have alternating laser lights inside their tubes.
This would be a cool thing to have a call back to, a ship and crew finding and being forced to use one knowing what it was ahead of time... But that would probably only work on a voyager like show where theres absolutely no way of them getting help elsewhere.
Enterprise should have ran into this station after the battle with the Xindi when she was full of holes
Secret Space Program. The Station evolves on its own. The Changeling's Nomad model kit in Travis' room, its 'Mini Borg Collective' / 'The Matrix chamber', Star Trek: The Motion Picture's V'Ger style first 'introduction' scan, it repairing itself like Nomad, and so on…
Those hints indicated it is actually a Living Machine.
It is though unable to do things like V'Ger did. As Phlox had shown…
Is it ever stated explicitly that "Ware" is a play on the thing being an machine intelligence? You know, software, hardware - and given the co-opting of organic brains, wetware?
Aftet i saw that episode of star trek enterprise i got very interested in that station.
I remember being disturbed yet fascinated with that episode. Especially when it repaired itself after being seemingly destroyed. Imagine automated space craft and such with a capability like that....an unkillable enemy.
The station could still be destroyed. Would take a huge explosion though.
What if this thing got its arms on bio-neural gel packs?
They're a bunch of Species that would gladly give a useless crew member for that kind of ship repair.
So who would Janeway offer from the Voyager crew? 7 0f 9, Kess, Nelix, other?
I thought the station was designed by Torres, got temporary displaced and turned evil.
Wouldn't be the first AI she used her own voice for.
This was a good episode, even though it struck me as an early form of Borg, I was just as curious about the station as the characters...which made watching them explore it satisfying as the viewer. It was also the only true episode of Star Trek I am aware of that dealt with ship damage and the repairs. Voyager had a few episodes like Year Of Hell...but I mean ship getting damaged, episode being wrapped, and the damage still being a problem afterward.
I love this station, if it didn't capture crew and assimilate them into it...
Think of one if those around earth, when the galaxy needed retrofitting, it just flies through here and let's geordie have some free time.
Like this station could be a godscent for the federation
Yea the thing just rebuilding itself like it was nothing did make me wonder if these can be destroyed at all.
I always wondered if offered bioneural tech the stations would have no longer required abducting crew from ships. This would have turned them into a great asset.
the device in the middle of "payment room" looks like the AI from Voyagers Think Tank.
Because it is. Star Trek loved to repurpose stuff.
I was hoping for a little more detail on why they stations were built and sent out. Oh well still and very good showing here, thanks.
So glad you made this video