Sabotage Sabotage is the intentional destruction or damaging of a device to slow one ' s opponent . The etymology of the word " sabotage " originated from the French " sabot " . ( ) In 2154 , when Captain Jonathan Archer reverse - imprinted on a group of Xindi - Insectoid egg s , he felt that Lieutenant Malcolm Reed ' s order to destroy a Xindi - Insectoid starship might have been a deliberate attempt at sabotaging ' s mission to pursue means to stop the Xindi ' s planned destruction of Earth . ( ) " In 2155 in the mirror universe , Commander lured Commander with the promise of a sexual encounter and then used a Vulcan mind meld to implant a telepathic compulsion in him to sabotage the " " s power systems and then altered his memory . " ( ) " In 2259 of the alternate reality , Admiral had the ' s warp core sabotaged during its mission to fire 72 advanced long - range torpedo es at the traitor John Harrison ' s location on Qo ' noS . Marcus intended to strand the " Enterprise " on the Federation - Klingon border , where a Klingon patrol investigating the attack would come across the ship , thereby giving Marcus a reason for the Federation and Klingon Empire to go to war . Later , snuck onto the and sabotaged it to stop Marcus from attacking the " Enterprise " . " ( ) In 2268 , the was ordered to Deep Space Station K - 7 based on Undersecretary for Agriculture Nilz Baris concerns that the Klingon s might attempt to sabotage a shipment of a quadrotriticale being held there . ( ) Around the same time , the arrived from the future , carrying with it the Klingon agent Arne Darvin . When Darvin was finally caught by Lieutenant commander Worf , Worf suggested that Darvin might have sabotaged the " Enterprise " , but Darvin replied that he had done " nothing so mundane . " ( ) Montgomery Scott sabotaged the in 2285 by removing chips from her main transwarp computer . This prevented the " Excelsior " from pursuing the stolen USS " Enterprise " . ( ) In 2364 , when a laser drill killed the terraformer Arthur Malencon , sabotage was suspected as a possible cause , though it was actually the work of the microbrain . ( ) That same year , following the destruction of the , Captain Jean - Luc Picard strongly suspected sabotage , based on a conversation he had with the ship ' s commanding officer , Walker Keel . His suspicion was confirmed by an investigation by Lieutenant Commander Data , as well as a visit to Starfleet Headquarters that revealed the existence of the parasitic being s . ( ) In 2366 , the sabotage of an Angosian tracking station by Roga Danar enabled him to escape from their Lunar V penal colony . ( ) The Klingon exobiologist J ' Dan was accused of sabotaging the dilithium chamber of the resulting in an explosion in 2367 . It was later revealed that it was rather an accident and not an act of sabotage . ( ) While the Cardassian s were withdrawing from Bajor after the occupation ' s end in 2369 , Cardassians on board Terok Nor sabotaged and booby trapped the station , as part of standard military procedure when abandoning an outpost . ( ) In 2369 Commander Sisko suggested sabotage when the aphasia device infected the whole station . Kira Nerys told him that because of the diboridium core it was Cardassian sabotage . ( ) In 2371 , when Doctor Julian Bashir fell into a coma caused by a Lethean , he found himself trapped in his mind in a version of Deep Space 9 . In his mind , the Lethean sabotaged Deep Space 9 and each time he did so , the damage caused was actually damage to Bashir ' s mind . ( ) That same year , under orders from Admiral Toddman , Michael Eddington sabotaged the ' s cloaking device ' s tetryon compositor . ( ) Eddington would later install a cascading virus aboard the Defiant in preparation for his defection to the Maquis , thereby sabotaging the vessel during its pursuit of him in late 2372 . ( ) In late 2371 , a Changeling sabotaged the USS " Defiant " in order to ignite a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi . ( ) In order to make it appear that the Founder s were a greater threat to Earth that they were , Admiral Leyton had Red Squad sabotage the global power grid in 2372 , plunging Earth into a . ( ) In 2373 , when a Pah - wraith took possession of Keiko O ' Brien ' s body , she forced Miles O ' Brien to make a number of modifications to the systems of Deep Space 9 that were ultimately intended to kill the Prophet s . Sabotage was first suspected by Lieutenant commander Jadzia Dax when she discovered certain of the modifications by running a level 3 diagnostic . ( ) That same year , a Changeling posing as Doctor Julian Bashir sabotaged the graviton emitter s on Deep Space 9 to prevent an attempt to seal the Bajoran wormhole . ( ) Following this , he engaged in a number of other acts of sabotage until he was finally killed . ( ) Also that year , when Nyrian s took control of , Commander Chakotay and crewman Gennaro were the only two remaining crewmembers active on the ship , The Doctor not being activated . Chakotay ordered Gennaro to sabotage everything he could get his hands on and then proceeded to disable the ship ' s lateral EPS relays himself before rescuing The Doctor . ( ) In Lieutenant commander Tuvok ' s " Insurrection Alpha " holonovel , the holographic Commander Chakotay began to suspect the presence of a saboteur on " Voyager " when the ships warp engines had been offline for two days and he & Seska continued to experience issues repairing them . ( ) During the Battle of Cardassia in late 2375 , the civilians on Cardassia Prime sabotaged the planet ' s communications , transportation and power systems , causing a planet - wide blackout . This disabled the Female Changeling ' s ability to command the Dominion ships during the battle . The disarray caused by this allowed the allies to defeat the Dominion and Breen fleets and force them to retreat . It also led to the destruction of Lakarian City by Jem ' Hadar forces and further threats to destroy Cardassian cities if the sabotage continued , which were carried out when the Female Changeling ordered the extermination of the Cardassians . ( ) In 2376 , Seven of Nine believed that numerous transmissions by the Qomar to " Voyager " were an attempt to sabotage it by overloading the system with " " millions of teraquads of irrelevant data " , " but Captain Kathryn Janeway explained that it was actually fan mail being sent to The Doctor . ( ) When " Voyager " was split into 37 separate timeframes , Commander Chakotay encountered a version of Captain Kathryn Janeway in a timeframe prior to the ship ' s having become lost in the Delta Quadrant . Though he tried to tell her that he believed he had been seven years into the ship ' s past , she suspected instead that he learned " Voyager " had been assigned to capture him and came on - board to sabotage the ship . ( )