>In the 25th century that would be kind of a silly way to design a
>carrier, actually, given that they can't launch or recover fighters
>with their shields up.
>

So, carriers are bulked up with point defense, lots o' armor, and a boatload of AEGIS-like equipped escorts for the counter-space piece, and a core battle group with a ton of long-range missile shooters too I guess...

I can picture a lot of fights in space being very fast, very long range, with lots of "launch and leave" type weapons, unless the counter-measures force everybody back into in close to knife fight range...

then things get REALLY ugly I imagine...

Giddyap!

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