You would have thought that the Federation could have used it during the Dominion War. A cloak so powerful you can’t even be shot at?

That’s a really good point, why didn’t they use it?

I know it wasn’t, but in my head I always figured this was the cloak of the cloaked minefield in front of the wormhole. Then the dominion couldn’t just fire a torpedo and blow up the grid. That made the minefield make more sense to me.

The minefield works because of the cloaked and the self replicating. You blow up 100, the 100 nearest replicate invisibly to reform the “net.”

They really should just build endless arrays of these around the station. Just deactivate them when not in battle, and broadcast “clear lanes” for ships to fly through to get to the station

Wartime? Mines rearrange themselves, then enable. No more clear lanes. Load DS9 with long range artillery and pick off fleets at distance.

Yea the only thing that didn’t satisfy me with the self replicating is the “they can just… keep replacing themselves? Man replicators really are broken” and how fast is this replication? Like if the dominion wanted to send 1,000 ships through and it could only take out 5-10 before exhausting why not just send the ships through.

But if the mines were phased and could detonate when the big ships are through, or even inside the big ships, they’d think twice. Again, just weird head canon I had to explain the minefields effectiveness in the show haha