Star Trek: Danube Class Runabout

[Lucky]

Danube Class Runabout

DAX: This ship is only fourteen meters wide.

Width: 14 meters = 45.9318 Feet

KIRA: Then they may know the speed of our runabouts. If they do, they probably have a faster ship to make their escape. 


SISKO: Major, survey all ships in dock with a high warp capability. Damn! 


ODO: What? 


SISKO: That's why we've got a residual charge in the graviton generator. They've disabled the tractor beam. 


KIRA: We've got eight ships in dock capable of warp five or more. Three on docking pylons, five smaller ones in the ports.

KIRA: Shields are down. Forward thrusters are gone. We're losing power. 


SISKO: Attempting to compensate with secondary boosters. 


KIRA: Impulse generators failing.

WARP Drive with a likely maximum Warp Factor of 5

Impulse Generators

Thrusters

Secondary Boosters

DAX: Maybe a photon would destroy one of the satellites.

KIRA: A small ship like a runabout might be able to get close enough to overload their shield generators with directed phaser fire. We used to do it to Cardassian freighters all the time.

(A runabout is towing the Cardassian warship)

Photon Torpedos
Phasers
Tractor Beams

SISKO: Shields up!

BASHIR: Twelve hundred C. Thirteen.
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(The runabout has dug itself into the surface. They blow an emergency hatch. Sisko and Bashir are out first, then they lift out Opaka. Her eyes stare at nothing.)

Shields of unknown strength. Do to the Danube Class Runabouts and technology in general in Star Trek there is no way to be sure that an attack that worked a year or even less ago will work a second time.
Hull capable of maintaining structural integrity at temperatures that make most if not all real world metals soft like putty or run like water, and survives free fall from orbit with only a nacelle falling off.

DAX: That's not all. At least five of the orbs were found in the Denorios Belt. There were also been twenty three navigational reports over the years of unusually severe neutrino disturbances in the same area. I've correlated all these reports in one analysis grid. Our Celestial Temple?

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DAX [OC]: Sensors are picking up unusually high proton counts. 


SISKO [OC]: Setting a new course to those coordinates.


[Runabout Rio Grande]


DAX: All external wave intensities are increasing rapidly, but checking. Confirmed. There is no corresponding increase inside the cabin. How is that possible? 


(The runabout falls into a bright hole in space and starts travelling along an energy tunnel.) 


SISKO: Sensors are not functioning. 


DAX: We've lost all contact with the space station.

KIRA: Coming about. Sensors are picking up a narrow band subspace signal. 


SISKO: What do you make of it? 


KIRA: Just a long stream of statistical data followed by a request for reply. I'm not reading any response.

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BASHIR: Commander, sensors indicate lifeforms localised in twelve square kilometres on the moon's surface. They may be humanoid, sir 


SISKO: Humanoid? Can you verify that? 


BASHIR: I can't resolve the biopatterns. There's too much interference.
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O'BRIEN: Runabout hulls are made out of metallic composites that interact with magnetic fields. We could send out a few probes to scan the system for those specific magnetic resonance patterns. If Sisko's runabout is in the system, we might pick up a fluctuation in the hysteresis curve. 


DAX: The magnetic deflection of a runabout's hull is extremely weak. The probes will never be able to detect it. 


O'BRIEN: They will, if I can outfit them with a differential magnetomer. 


DAX: A differential magnetomer. I've never heard of a differential magnetomer. How does it work? 


O'BRIEN: I'll let you know as soon as I've finished making one.

This is a sample of what a Danube Class Runabout's sensor systems can do.

SISKO: Ejecting antimatter pod.
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SISKO: Hold on, we're going down. Check contingency fuel cell output.

Main Reactor: mater/anti-matter warp-core
Secondary Power Source: Some sort of fuel cell

KEOGH: (silver-haired veteran) Starfleet's orders are simple. Traffic through the wormhole will be suspended until the Odyssey can investigate the Jem'Hadar's threat. 


DAX: What about Benjamin and the others? 


KEOGH: Don't worry, Lieutenant. Commander Sisko's return is a top priority. 


DAX: If you're going to try to rescue them, then we're coming with you. 


KEOGH: Are you sure that's wise? With the exception of Major Kira and Mister O'Brien, none of you have had much combat experience. 


BASHIR: We fought the Maquis. 


KEOGH: All the Maquis had were a pair of lightly armed shuttlecraft. I expect the Dominion to have sharper teeth. 


KIRA: Well then you're going to need all the help you can get. 


KEOGH: Mister O'Brien, can you equip the two remaining runabouts with extra banks of photon torpedoes? 


O'BRIEN: I already started retrofitting their weapons systems. They should be ready in a few hours.

ARAK'TARAL: No other crew. Standard Danube-class runabout. Some modification to the phaser array and shield generators.

WEYOUN7: I don't believe the Jem'Hadar would want to fire on Odo, even if they were ordered to. 


DAMAR: They don't need to know he's on board. You simply order them to destroy the runabout. 


WEYOUN7: I suppose it could work. But if the Founders ever found out that we were responsible for Odo's death. 


DAMAR: Who's going to tell them? 


WEYOUN7: Odo doesn't even consider himself a Founder. 


DAMAR: Then we agree. The runabout must be destroyed. Excellent. Now I really think you should try a little kanar.
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ODO: Trouble. 


(BOOM as the Jem'Hadar start shooting.) 


WEYOUN: I can't believe they're firing on us. 


ODO: Trust me, they are. 


WEYOUN: But the Jem'Hadar would never obey an order to harm a Founder. 


ODO: Maybe they finally got it through their head that I'm not a Founder. 


WEYOUN: Or they don't know who they're firing at. We've got to let them know you're on board. 


ODO: They're jamming all the frequencies. I can't get through. 


WEYOUN: They've been ordered not to communicate with us. 


ODO: Damar said he was determined not to let us get back to the station. 


WEYOUN: See if you can get above them. 


ODO: Why? 


WEYOUN: I'll explain later. Just do it. 


(Rio Grande lets the Jem'Hadar pass underneath.) 


ODO: What now? 


WEYOUN: Lock phasers on their dorsal field junction. Their shields are weakest there.

[359]

There's a bit more on their sensors in DS9: "The Quickening" mostly about their range.

Kira: "The sensors just picked up two Jem'Hadar ships headed this way."
Kira: "The Jem'Hadar are leaving the Kendi system and looks like they're heading for the Obatta cluster."
Dax: "Sounds like they're on a patrol route which means this system is probably next."
Kira: "We'd better go. Stand by to get underway."

And from DS9: "The Ship" they have site-to-site transporters.

Hoya: "Sir, the ship withstood the impact."
Sisko: "Survivors?"
Hoya: "I can't determine that."
Hoya: "We're having trouble penetrating the hull with our sensors."
Sisko: "Beam us directly to the crash site."