Fighters offer another way to strengthen Deep Space Nine, but its runabouts already use much of the available internal space. External hangar pods meet objections about the station's structural integrity fields. Self-contained pods and an asteroid hangar are offered as alternatives. The remaining obstacle is political permission from the authority controlling the system. A later change in Bajoran attitudes is attributed to the experience of invasion.
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Fighter hangars for Deep Space Nine
A fighter proposal encounters hangar-space, structural, and political constraints.