Hi Dark, The problem is that even with refits the ships over all performance usually doesn't change much. For example the U.S.S. Odyssey's weapons refits upgraded it's maximum photon torpedo load from the standard 250, for a Galaxy-Class, to a maximum of 275 photon torpedoes in wore time. After the Odyssey was destroyed by the Dominion the Federation recognized a critical weakness in the pylon between the saucer section and the battle section. Later Galaxy-Class ships seen on DS9, especially the big battle to take DS9 back from the Dominion, featured heavy armor, like the Defiant's, under the saucer's sections lower side and the pylons that could take critical damage to ship systems in battle. However, rather than expensive refits the Federation seams to have a history of creating new classes of starships with the latest advancements in them. The Defiant class is the only class of starship in the Federation with a cloaking device though if they have the technology they should be able to add it into other designs, but don't. The Soverign-Class appears to have largely replaced the Galaxy-Class as the main ships of the fleet for defense and were used heavily in high threat situations such as in Star Trek Nemesis and First Contact when older classes of starships clearly would have not succeeded. One memory comes to mind is where U.S.S. Monarchy and Enterprise are leading the fleet against the Borg cube in First Contact. They were stronger ships and held up pretty well to the Borg cube. When Picard pointed out the week point on the cube the combined attack from Monarchy and Enterprise as well as the other ships blew the Borg cube to heck and back. That is the only instance I can remember on Star Trek where a Federation starship destroyed a Borg cube in combat. Another seen that comes to mind is the Borg spheres. In First Contact Picard ordered up a full spread of quantum torpedoes, and the Enterprise blew the Borg sphere to bits. On Voyager when the same style of ship came up against Voyager Voyager had a much tougher time dealing with the situation, and was far to under armed to take on that kind of ship. Though, when Voyager got the refits, given to them by Admiral Janeway from the future, then Voyager kicked Borg butt. I love the final battle in the last epasode when Voyager blasted her way through the Borg fleet and entered the transwarp conduit that took them home.
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