5th February 2004, 7:09 PM
Star Trek's strat is huge super powerful ships to do the fighting instead of smaller weaker ships in large numbers. Also remember that phasers completely outclass lasers, as an episode of Next Gen where the crew actually laughed at a technologically primitive culture's threatening them with lasers. Heck, they were actually just floating along with the guys behind shooting them with the lasers and doing next to no damage. Also remember that even when they were at war with the klingons, their ships were designed first for exploration, then for combat.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)