On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Charles C. Liu wrote:

        Brett and I have been having a disscussion about the capablities of
the Defiant and the Enterprise. We were wondering which ship would win if
they fought it out.

We use 'Discussion' as the *nice* way of describing our conversation...

        I'm for the Enterprise because although it is not designed to be a
warship, it is bigger and  "in my opinion" has more firepower. I think the
designers at StarFleet Command meant the GALAXY-class starship to be a
SHIP-OF-THE-LINE. And I think they meant the Defiant to be a Cruiser.

Well If ya can't tell I'm for the Defiant - I feel that a 'purpose built' 
Battleship will be more than a match for a ship designed for 
*exploration* like the Galaxy Class.  As to the intent when these things 
were designed - look at the series, 'Starfleet's purpose is peaceful 
exploration of space', thats a quote used by *every* starship commander 
(Kirk to Janeway).  I'm not even going to add the fact that if the 
Defiant was using it's cloaking device the Galaxy class wouldn't know 
what hit it....

        BTW, if you want to know how this question started from it started
as a disscussion about how many Jem'Hadar ships it would take to destory
ethier ship.

Yeah - well I was making some mistake in my writing of the BGC/Trek 
FanFic - Charles was kind enough to point it out (so I changed it), but 
our discussion continued and continued and cont....


and to the people who don't like Star Trek:


           Are we boring you yet???  we are??? good!

-----Brett


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