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I hope Starfleet sent something that could actually fight a Ferengi marauder. Sometimes these marauders put up pitiful resistance, as in "Force of Nature" or "The Last Outpost", but these episodes had the ships under the debilitating effects of alien forces. In other occasions, they have proven quite deadly, as in "Peak Performance". I'm not sure an Intrepid would cut it - I'm rather hoping for a Nebula or an Akira. Then again, we'll probably never find out for sure.
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I don't think the Maurader was proven to be much of a thread in "Peak Performance". The Enterprise had her shields down, and wasn't expecting a real attack. The Ferengi got a few shots in against an unshielded ship, and luckily managed to fuse the simulated-weapons in place. In any other situation, Picard would have just warped away, but he had Riker's lot on board the Hathaway to consider.
Plus, the Ferengi beat a hasty retreat when they heard reinforcements were coming. Although they actually only detected "A starship". (Did we suddenly travel back in time to TOS, where "starship" seemed to excusively refer to Federation Consitution class ships?).
Or maybe they were just scared by Wesley's uniform. Couldn't that kid ever figure out how to do up his trousers?
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