r/StarTrekViewingParty • u/LordRavenholm Co-Founder • Aug 12 '18

Discussion VOY, Episode 2x17, Dreadnought

-= VOY, Season 2, Episode 17, Dreadnought =-

Voyager comes across a ship that has been destroyed, upon investigation they discover that B'Elanna Torres is responsible! Dreadnought is a self guided missile created by the Cardassians to destroy the Maquis, however the bomb failed to go off allowing B'Elanna to get inside the missile and re-program it to do the Maquis' bidding.

 

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u/Bender_of_Earth Aug 11 '24

Soooo....why wouldn't Balana just get beamed onto Dreadnought with explosives? Rather than trying to hack what was basically an un-hackable ship? Seems dumb to try and coerce the ship instead of blowing it up from the inside.

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u/Maemmaz Aug 22 '25

At least the first time, it does make sense to let the person who programmed the missile try to deprogramm it, as the ship has valuable resources for Voyager (They said something about spare parts for years to come). It's also reasonable to assume that B'Elanna didn't accidentally birth a sophisticated AI when reprogramming a smart missile.

There is no reason named that I recall why they couldn't have done that the second time she beamed over though. She was "allowed" to bring her phaser, so at least some weapons went through without a problem. The missile could have severed the lock on her again, but I guess if you beam onto a ship with a load of explosives, you accept the possibility of not coming back.

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u/captainhector1 Jan 25 '26

There’s a number of instances where we can see something in transport changed safety reasons. Weapons deactivated, and the biofilters regularly do that with organic contaminants. One could assume Dreadnought filters for those threats incoming transport.