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The caliber of the guns matters because the 90mm flak's standard round is VT-fused.

They didn't have time to send a dedicated supply ship stuffed with troops, true, but they had time for a starship supply run and the starship clearly had sufficient time to replicate anything they asked for on the way.

This is an excellent point. AR-558 is pretty much the only time we see the Federation in a situation where they have been in a *sustained* ground engagement *and* have an opportunity to bring in *all* the reinforcements and supplies they can wish for. I would absolutely agree that given those...

The grenades only "exist" if you accept unofficial, non-canon evidence outside of the episode itself, i.e. the prop picture and captions that you found, and you're still completely wrong in claiming that she was "playing with them" (nothing even REMOTELY like that happens), then claiming that...

Given that this is the United States in a timeline where the Nazis took over with alien assistance, those are far more likely to be American 90mm flak guns, not German eighty-eights. The 90mm AA guns had proximity fuses and radar direction, and are the only flak guns in WWII that could plausibly...

Challenge accepted. Cue Enterprise, Season 4, Episode 1. . . . . . the shuttlepod didn't take any direct hits. You see it rocking from proximity detonations close to the hull, a control panel beeps and Maywether exclaims "Starboard injector!" (implying they've taken damage to that component)...

That's an absurd interpretation. UNSC tanks take direct hits from hypervelocity smoothbore 90mm cannons, versus your 22nd century shuttlepod which is brought down in flames from proximity detonations of 90mm anti-aircraft shells. In other words, your vaunted shuttlepod is in fact only...

No, this is completely incorrect. I checked the scene before my prior post to make sure I had the dialogue correct and rechecked it again just now. Burnham doesn't say anything at all while she's actually looking at the weapons collection; she looks at the display cases, then turns around and...

1. That's not Michael Burnham, that's Commander Ellen Landry, the ship's Chief of Security. And she's holding an energy assault rifle of some kind, *not* a grenade. There are no grenades in that scene -- she picks up that rifle and one of the daggers, then puts the dagger back down before...

No, the logic being "thrown around" here would correctly deduce that the U.S. nuclear doctrine is not to use them.

I don't think it's unfair at all. The transporter has been consistently portrayed as a finicky, highly sensitive piece of equipment that is easily disabled by all manner of natural and artificial phenomena. It is entirely reasonable to assume that any rational and well-organized opponent should...

To expand on your point here: there is in fact *zero* canonical evidence that the UFP possesses *any* combat vehicles other than the "Argo" dune buggy seen in ST: Nemesis, or any artillery other than the tiny photon mortar seen all the way back in TOS (and never again since). They are...