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My comment is when reading the page on the auto destruct sequence. It is stated the yoyager class ships only require one command code to activate. I believe that this maybe in error. I think the reason is because due to the loss of her starfleet first officer that she may have had the system reprogrammed to accept her sole authority over the auto destruct. I don't believe starfleet would leave the authority in the hands of one officer only

-- 69.251.40.26 07:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC) stoveman831

There is no canon evidence that Janeway reprogrammed anything, and in fact there are problems with that argument. Remember that once the Maquis crew was integrated onto Voyager, they were quickly treated as if they were, in fact, members of Starfleet, even giving them uniforms and ranks. Chakotay himself was a former Starfleet officer. We have had other instances where the two people needed for auto-destruct did not even need to be in Starfleet. In "The Adversary" (someone correct me if I am wrong), Sisko and Kira activate the auto-destruct. Kira is not even a member of the Federation, and is in fact an officer in a military that is not part of the Federation. The Maquis seemed to be still considered Federation citizens by starfleet, criminals, but still members, as stated a few times by Admiral Nechayev. So, on Voyager we had Federation citizens treated as if they are now considered to be Starfleet officers, and the auto destruct only required Janeway. On the Defiant, we have one Starfleet officer and one member of the Bajoran Militia, completely independent of the Federation, and it still required both. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 16:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I also have a question about this. In First Contact and another episode of TNG, it takes only Picard and Riker to activate the auto destruct. But towards the end of First Contact, it takes 4 officers to deactivate it. It would also seem that autodestruct can only be activated from engineering, but de-activated from anywhere on the ship. Why?

Where did the 4 officer thing come from? Data deactivated the auto destruct on his own in engineering when the Borg queen told him to unlock the main computer. Also we often see the auto destruct activated by voice command on the bridge, so it can be activated there. As for whether it can be deactivated anywhere on the ship, I can't think of any instances when this occured other than in main engineering and on the bridge, but it would be reasonable to conclude that it should be easier to deactivate it than activate it, as in an emergency you may not have time to get to main engineering or the bridge should the situation change after enabling the auto destruct Wheatleya 13:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)