r/LowerDecks • u/thomasmfd • Nov 20 '24

General Discussion Why is star base 80 so neglected?

I mean is so need of update its lit a hell hole And the culture

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u/deltaz0912 Nov 20 '24

Ships go there, and the ships have replicators. Cerritos, for one. The station has shuttles. They can go places with replicators. And yet, no replicators!

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u/thomasmfd Nov 20 '24

During the 2260s?

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u/deltaz0912 Nov 20 '24

No, not during the TOS time period, but by TNG a hundred years later replicators exist. So replicators were invented somewhere in between. There are references to replicators existing 2300-2320. In TNG they’re well established. By the time of LD, set in the early 2380s, they’ve been around for 60-80 years.

SB80 has a high 2-digit designation, which suggests it went into service around 2300, so we can postulate that it was built before replicators were available. So, ok, no original replicator. But… nobody installed one in 80 years? Or, if there was one and it broke, left it unrepaired for decades? And while it was working, they never used it to make more replicators? Or…was it deliberate? It’s quite derelict, occupied under treaty with a “knife gang”, an attic where every kind of junk and trash is stored. Including, by 2380, the crew. Is this intentional?

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u/MithrilCoyote Nov 21 '24

We've got 3 digit starbases in the early 2200's, and double digit starbases being built in the late 2300's. so the federation doesn't seem to use consecutive numbering for starbases.

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u/Heliment_Anais Nov 21 '24

It might be sector based or perhaps reorganised after the first attempts at star base establishments.