This thread is my last resort as I could not find a proper reason for this. So guys please enlighten me..
In DS9 after the discovery of the Dominion and the defiant being commissioned under Sisko, the Romulans gave a cloaking device to Starfleet. Now during that time, Feds and Klingons were still allies.. so why didn't the feds approach the Klingons for the cloak?? According to Rom in DS9 they were even supposed to more portable!
Was there a reason the defiant was outfitted with a Romulan cloak or did the writers at the time forget that starfleet's allies had cloaking tech as well??
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But wasnt it something to do with KDF cloaks being penetrated by the Dominion antiproton sweep?
That or if i remember the federation was kinda at war with the Klingons?
Or my final guess is, to have a cloak on ANY federation ship would break a treaty with the Romulans, the Romulans agreed for the federation to go around the treaty in exchange for all sensor data on the Gamma Quadrent and to have a romulan Technician to operate the cloak. (who died and for some reason the romulans didnt ask for their cloak back)
Yea.. would have been nice to see a Romulan regular. It could have reached the scale of seeing a Klingon regular back in TNG days..
I think it was much later in the series dominion manages to see through the klingon cloak (in that episode where Kor is back..) Though I'm still wondering why the feds didn't just team up with the klingons and chart the gamma quadrant in a BoP before things went all ape-****..
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The intention was for that operator to be a regular, but they just couldn't come up with enough stuff to warrant paying the actress regularly, so she just dissapeared after The Search.
Only to appear on Voyager as a Bajoran disguised Cardassian.
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starfleet could probably make a cloak in a heartbeat if they wanted to. only the treaty stops them.
Yeah it was a one off for the USS Defiant only, for use exclusively in the Gamma Quadrant in exchange for all information and intelligence on the Dominion. After the prototype USS Defiant was lost the replacement wasn't given a cloak. At least that's what it says in all sources I have read. Considering a war was on and all parties were heavily involved in it, there simply was no point.
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They did. Pegasus.
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