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I don't think that the experiment "failed". More like the Enterprise is the work horse of Starfleet, being sent on all sorts of dangerous missions like chasing pirates or getting involved in border skirmishes. A Starfleet ship that just transports supplies around the interior of Federation...

From Starfleet's perspective, DS9 might have the weakness of being built by Cardassians. You typically don't see Klingons or Romulans hacking into Starfleet ships, because the Klingons and Romulans don't know really know the hardware or software architecture of those ships. But the Cardassians...

While I do agree that the Feddies should've been more wary and beefed up their military, I think STO takes it too far. Or maybe that's just the framing of the game, since it is an MMO where the primary gameplay is combat, which means you need a lot of enemies to fight (so suddenly everyone in...

Regarding the Galaxy class vs Dominion ships, note that the Dominion's powerlevel was unprecedented in the setting. The Galaxy was designed for a region in which the strongest adversaries were Romulan and Klingon warbirds, against which one couldn't have asked the Galaxy to perform any better...

The Federation consists of... how many billions of people? Trillions? Even if less than 1% of 1% of the population were war cultist psychopaths, the Federation could still easily get millions of volunteers, more than they could build ships for.

Starfleet ships are typically large because they have to be multipurpose. They have to carry a lot of different tools and a lot of crew for different roles, like agricultural people, scientists who study fauna, astrophysicists, etc. Plus, lots of spare room for projects that may occur during the...