Transportation cost.
I live in a city that makes a specific brand of granola bars. If I go buy a box off the shelf at the store, that box has traveled a minimum of 400km before I touch it (ignoring converters and whatnot in the production facility.)Centralization has really fucked up the cost of things.
I worked in a service center for a big company back in my 20's, they would factor in callouts to their staffing plan, and use historical data for it. They also paid 2.5x time on holidays like the 25/26 December. That's what a million dollar company should look like...if you want to make sure there's coverage, you pay for it.
After the dominion war, why would the founders not only continue making Jem'Hadar, let alone changing them to include the existence of a second gender and ability to reproduce sexually?
They absolutely should have figured out some basic bitch warp drive for the saucer. Pop out nacelles? At some point the D was provided with a runabout, maybe two of those could have extended a warp shell around the saucer? Literally anything would be better than asking it to limp along at sublight speeds.
For anyone else who was as out of the loop as I was, Flock is an American company that provides cameras, license plate readers, communications, and straight up data to U.S. law enforcement.
Well they removed all the parts of him he filled with resin and just joined it back up after. So...skipped the waiting for cancer step?