10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

As if by magic another station appeared!

Portrayed on screen at a fabulously jaunty angle so as not to be confused with its fully operational counterpart Terok Nor, Empok Nor was conveniently forgotten about for a whole five years. Then Starfleet remembered it existed and decided to drop on by for an away day to scavenge parts for their main base of operations in the sector.

Echoing ghost stories, the eponymous episode from the late fifth season highlighted the hazards of the Nor Class stations but what really concerns here is that this place has been completely unchecked since the departure of the Cardassians and is packed with useful materials.

Aside from the sleeping Cardassians and the psychosis-inducing gases, this is a perfect holiday spot at a commutable distance from Bajor. It's rather odd that it's not a location that the Dominion ever considered using when they made their incursions into the Alpha Quadrant. More palm-to-the-face inducing has to be the fact that by DS9's seventh season, Dukat has managed to reactivate and populate the station with his own cult, seemingly without anyone noticing.

It all seems a bit off that given the war footing the quadrant is on, Empok Nor wasn't manned and repaired or at the very least monitored given its proximity to both Bajor and the wormhole. Tactically it's a misfire of quadratic proportions.