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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Well, we know for certain that the cube in BOBW was not attacked while directly in Earth orbit. It's been a while since I saw TMP... wasn't there an orbital defense system that was mentioned (and disabled by V'Ger)? The thing is, that Starfleet has never (that we know of) faced a truly hostile outright invasion of the core sectors of the Federation. From what we know, all of the conflicts before the first Borg invasion were border engagements. So Starfleet probably never considered it as important as providing for border defenses. Or to translate: they figured the border defenses were completely sufficient for repelling attacks. And it was only a highly superior force like the Borg that was able to puncture the outer lines and get to the interior. Of course, the initial TNG attitude was that war was obsolete, and the Federation had the head-in-the-sand mentality anyway -- so Starfleet probably had qualitatively weaker defensives even though their technology had advanced. This doesn't answer the question as to what the Mars Defense Perimeter is -- I guess that it's something that'd determined by the overall mentality -- for instance, Starfleet could have maintained a small number of large drones that would go into the center of an invading fleet (surviving thanks to heavy armor) and then blow up real good, decimating the invaders. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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