![]() ![]() Its like having massive cannons and defence systems on train going east-west to protect gold that is hidden on a train going north-south. Nothing is easier than circumventing planetary defences stationed on a different planet. The enemy fleet will not even be remotely in danger. If Mars is on the other side of the sun as an enemy fleet is approaching, its whole firepower is useless. Every vessel in Star Trek uses a direct approach to any planet. But once you have impulse engines, this becomes obsolete. Today you use the slingshot effect when travelling space. People forget that Space is huge and that while the orbits of Mars and Earth are next to each other, the planets can be at completely opposing sides of the sun. Mars Defensive Perimeter doesn't make sense in the first place. But Starfleet needed a good kick in the pants to get off its arse and resume building new, good ships. Things changed when the Sovereign and Defiant class ships came online. The idea that peace might fail and a shooting war would break out was so completely alien to Starfleet that they weren't even prepared for the possibility. It was so bad that Starfleet was losing entirely fleets as routine. Towards the end of the war new ships were coming out of the shipyards and existing hulls were receiving upgrades, but early on it was bad. Starfleet had hundred year old Miranda and Excelsior class starships. ![]() The Dominion had modern, advanced warships. This is why Starfleet was getting clobbered during the Dominion War. Because of this, Starfleet had a roster full of old ships incapable of handling themselves in combat against modern warships. This also applied to Starfleet as a whole. I would assume, post-Borg, post-Klingon War Redux, post-Dominion, that it's much beefier. I would go so far as to say that it was actually downright RATIONAL for the Mars Defensive Perimeter to be in the state that it was. As a real-world counterpart, I'm willing to bet that Philadelphia doesn't have all that much going for it in terms of a defensive force (local police, some militia perhaps and what appears to be a non-combat Naval Support Activity center). My guess would be that the Federation simply did not perceive a threat to Earth and had not perceived one for decades (if not a century) and that the Mars Defensive Perimeter reflects this. Betazed) had woefully outdated defensive systems at this time. We also know that other major Federation member world near the core (i.e. We know there are dozens of starbases and ships along the Romulan Neutral Zone and that the Federation has ships near other hostile minor powers (the Tzenkethi, Talarians, Cardiassians, etc). It stands to reason that the Federation would therefore concentrate their defensive efforts where they (thought) they would most need it: at the perimeter. The Earth-Romulan wars are hundreds of years in the past and the Federation has had relatively peaceful relations with the Klingons for a very long time. This time in Federation history represents the end of a very long period without serious threats to the Federation core worlds. ![]()
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