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**** Salvageable parts? From an 80-year-old ship? In a society that has REPLICATORS? ... yah, I vote photon torpedo too.
** This came up in one of the William Shatner novels, however you want to take those. Spock claims that the relative cost of producing starships is so low as to be virtually negligible. In a society where everything short of exotic matter can be converted from energy, a plague ship is better as space-dust than risking exposure by towing it in for decon.
*** Star Trek Online certainly took this and ran with it... starships really are a dime a dozen, and you can transfer to them and modify them largely at will, all you've got to do is pay the energy cost of the replicator usage somehow.
* Shatnerverse aside, this is something that comes from "ancient" naval traditions. The ''Lantree'' was considered a plague ship and needed to be scuttled for safety reasons. Maybe it makes all the sense in the world, maybe it doesn't. But even when ships were highly expensive, it was fairly common to simply commit a mass burial at sea for those dead on a ship stricken with a deadly disease.
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