• Gladaed@feddit.de
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    “Science Ship” sure buddy, operating independently in remote locations with light to medium intensity combat situations is a mere science ship.

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      Picard: Starfleet is not a military organization

      Dominion: Bonjour

      Sisko: jk the Klingons are our besties

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      light to medium intensity combat situations

      Are you kidding me? The Enterprise encounters god-like beings on a regular basis, and still manages to subsist after all those episodes, only having lost a very large bunch of its low-ranked crew members. The death star would easily be dealt with in a single episode (but if possible without killing all the people living on the death star, as that would be super cruel).

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      Larry Niven subtweeted this in some Known Space books. The protagonists’ ship in Ringworld has a wide variety of tools and equipment that are not technically weapons. Including a mining laser that once punched a hole so deep into a moon that it developed a stable atmosphere. Accordingly, the main character christens it the Lying Bastard.

      It spends the whole first novel upside-down in a ditch.