"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
To be fair you would have to create it - you'd just have to take it apart completely and rebuild it from the ground up. Which would probably be a more difficult job.
Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe: Albert Einstein.
Creating one from scratch and relegating the redshirts to shipboard security would probably be a lot easier.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
Anyone with an AK-47 is better armed than the Feds.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
Orbital bombardment is fine if you just want to wipe out the enemy. If the planet's got something you want, then you'd need to send down infantry to capture it, whereupon you need about a million and one other things to support said infantry.
Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe: Albert Einstein.
Many of Starfleet's involvements seemed to include disputed worlds or some other situation that included a native populace or colony world. Orbital bombardment could be bad in those cases, and in any event doesn't allow you to take and hold territory.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer