23rd-century weapons > 25th-century weapons. That's even sort of implied in the canon, where TOS phasers routinely vaporize people and TNG ones just sort of make little burnt holes in their clothes. :)

I did think it was kind of cute that multiple characters in the "you have just arrived in 2410" bit of the story arc remark on how good your repro 2260s uniform is, like they've taken you for some kind of 25th-century SCA member. The tailor at ESD even gushes a little about how authentic the materials look. I don't really get why you have to pretend you're not from the past, though. When has any time traveler in Star Trek ever not just said "yeah, I'm from 2269, nice future you got here"? Shit, even the Time Police have a dude standing right outside Admiral Quinn's new office wearing a name tag that says "Hello, my name is Time Cop". They're obviously not a secret organization, except that they are.

Anyway, thinking about this again has reminded me of the thing I'm most disappointed about in re the 23rd-century storyline, besides how short (and almost entirely contaminated with the Time Police business) it is: which is that they wrote it in such a way that your character expresses no skepticism at all about Agent Daniels when he reveals himself. He offers no evidence of anything he is saying (until much later in the story arc), and you, a hard-nosed Starfleet captain from an age when they were still Largely Autonomous Two-Fisted Explorers, just sort of nod and start doing what he says immediately, even though as far as everything you know right now suggests, he's just a security ensign who's lost his goddamn mind. Jim Kirk wouldn't have stood for that nonsense, I'll tell ye that for nowt. :)

(Nor would Cosmonaut Buchanan. "Hunter, you have five seconds to cut the shit and get back to work. If you're angling for a Section 8, when we get back to the Trenchant I can suggest at least three other approaches that are just as likely to fly with Medical and much less likely to piss off your commanding officer in the middle of a dodgy shore mission." :)

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