>Now imagine this bad boy with UF-level tech: Either your pants just
>got less comfortable or you started cackling insanely. I don't know,
>it varies from person to person. Maybe both of those things happened.
>It really depends on how you feel about obscenely gratuitous overkill. I imagine it'd be a "paper project" that never made it past computer modeling, the brainchild of some bored R&D guy going "What If?". Not only is the design so complicated and laughably vulnerable that it'd be more of a danger to the crew than it would the enemy, it'd be totally against the principles of Starfleet, in UF as well as the original source.