I'm still imagining this to be the proposed Starfleet shipyards in the Bajor system. I've seen other suggestions including a replacement for DS9, or a starbase for the Gamma Quadrant terminus of the Bajoran wormhole. Any thoughts? It has the number 173 all over it whatever it is.
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We did see similar stations at Utopia Planitia in "Relativity" (VOY), so I would agree that it's likely a shipyard.
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I can't imagine that the writers would decide to phase out DS9 itself.
I can imagine it might happen, one day, but probably not in something less than a mega-event. Then again they offed Janeway quietly in a TNG book, so you never know...
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