Hmm.. could be a combination of the two. 'Slash-and-Burn' resource extraction in a mad dash to feed a military-industrial machine working at breakneck speed to both feed the need for resources and to protect the empire from reprisals resulting from this militant attitude, and for 'bread-and-circuses...

More like their vices in General, Dukat's vice is exotic alien women, others have been overly fond of K'nar... The Cardassians appear to be a predominantly racist society, with the sense of entitlement over other races that entails. It could be that when the first wave of conquest netted signifigant...

Movie Starship Troopers... From what I've come to understand, what went down was that Paul Verhoven was called in to direct a massive sci-fi/action blockbuster from an original script that happend to include alien invasions of a human multi-planet political body focusing primarily around the infantr...

There was this one bit of fanfic I stumbled over wherein the mirrorverse Terran Empire never did fall, in fact they constructed 'Monitor' class starships the size of some small starbases and eradicated the Borg by firing Genesis Torpedos into the Unimatrix. http://forum.spacebattles.com/showthread.p...

I'd always assumed those armband-thingies WERE the dimensional-shift device.

And we wouldn't want that, can't go muscling-in on the Vulcan's turf.

Speaking of 'making interesting things appear where your enemy doesn't want them...' In the TNG episode 'The High Ground' a group of terrorists use something called a 'Dimensional Shift' technology to perform site-to-site transports without interdiction or detection, but this technology does incurab...

This form of Ablative armor would also render Voyager incapable of warp travel, since it's basicly a solid layer of armor and Voyager relies on variable-geometry nacelles. Also I'm convinced that covering a nacelle (i.e. the blue glow-y bits) reduces it's efficiency so even if Voyager had been of co...

Also, Warp technology does NOT equate to rocket technology. In a warp-drive you are not tossing reaction-mass out the back to propel your ship forward, you're simply expending fuel to power a device that 'warps' space-time around your ship somehow and you get taken along for a ride. There's also the...

M'ress, by a long shot.

In 'First Contact' the Borg Queen mentions that the Borg started out as 'Organic' but that they 'Evolved to include the synthetic'. In TMP it's strongly indicated that the 'race' which repaired and up-graded V'Ger was a race of all-machine entities, perhaps something from VonNeuman's wildest screami...

I seem to recall in 'Yesterday's Enterprise the E-D destroying a K'vort class Bird of Prey with phaser-fire only, I may be mistaken but isn't the K'vort class a more powerful and capable series of Bird of Prey ships than the B'rels? Still, sucked to see the closest thing the Federation had to a Batt...