• pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    They don’t go in with guns/phasers ready, heck most of the times they don’t even raise shields beforehand.

    And they have a whole protocol and rules for this:

    Before engaging alien species in battle, any and all attempts to make first contact and achieve non-military resolution must be made

    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      Which is the same thing SG-1 did, make peaceful contact with weapons for defense.

      Even with shields down a federation starship is still a very capable warship.