Many more smaller, faster ships would probably be better to span one's empire and hold it by force. And in packs of 3, there is a good advantage to firing from three sets of guns from three different angles. But they still don't have the massive punch of the larger weapons on a larger ship that can carry larger phasers cannons and the energy sources to power them. The same for the shields.
I remember in The Search For Spock, whatever vessel the klingon had there, he assessed the Enterprise outgunned him 10 to 1. I can't be sure when or if those smaller looking scouty looking vessels began to approach the D-7's or D-7 looking vessels in raw power, but 3 of those would still be less than the Enterprise.
One D7 is a threat, of course, but one Constitution class ship would pretty much always beat it. Even 2 might lose a fair percentage of the time. But 3 should pretty much guarantee Klingon victory. I think that's why they travel in packs of 3, at least near the klingon border. Federation shield tech is usually ahead of the klingon shield tech. One shot from V'Ger and the klingon is gone, but it took more than that to get the Enterprise.
Anyway, though I should have a decent idea of how 3D space is laid out, I'm not sure about this, but I think the Klingons are bordered by the Feds on one side and the Romulans on another side. So they need lots of ships to protect both fronts, plus, since they tend to hold things by force, a fair number to keep the planets they have subjugated under their thumb. Unless they can guarantee the Romulans aren't going to attack them, or they no longer care if their back ranks revolt, I've never felt they could send enough ships into Federation space to take on Earth, Vulcan, Aandoria, Tellar Prime, and who ever else is supplying the ships of the Federation.
But then we don't really have a detailed view of the back ranks and subjugated planets and resources of the Klingon Empire. Suffice it to say, the Romulans always felt they needed to join with the klingons, or keep the klingons and the Federation apart, to be secure. Since the trio seemed well balanced, each region remained relatively stable. To just assume one group and can pick up and beat another so handily without help or blessing or some other change in that dynamic mystifies me. And with the klingon philosophy, if they could do it, I think they would have done it. So something happened in the Yesterday's Enterprise timeline that shifted that balance of power. Given the romulans were involved in the attack on Narendra III, and in that timeline the Feds had no idea what happened to that lost ship C, it seems reasonable the Romulans were able to shift the balance of power, probably by putting a wedge between the Feds and the Klingons, joining with them, or supplying them. But in the prime timeline, the word got out, the Romulans failed to keep their covert operation off the books, the Klingons heard the Enterprise-C fought to the death for a klingon colony, and relations remained good between the Feds and the Klingons, while soured between the Romulans and the Klingons (given worf's attitude toward them).
If the reasoning is unsound, I'm keen to hear why anyone thinks so, but to simply state one just thinks the Klingons can do it all on their own doesn't give me much to work with. TWIMC.
I remember in The Search For Spock, whatever vessel the klingon had there, he assessed the Enterprise outgunned him 10 to 1. I can't be sure when or if those smaller looking scouty looking vessels began to approach the D-7's or D-7 looking vessels in raw power, but 3 of those would still be less than the Enterprise.
One D7 is a threat, of course, but one Constitution class ship would pretty much always beat it. Even 2 might lose a fair percentage of the time. But 3 should pretty much guarantee Klingon victory. I think that's why they travel in packs of 3, at least near the klingon border. Federation shield tech is usually ahead of the klingon shield tech. One shot from V'Ger and the klingon is gone, but it took more than that to get the Enterprise.
Anyway, though I should have a decent idea of how 3D space is laid out, I'm not sure about this, but I think the Klingons are bordered by the Feds on one side and the Romulans on another side. So they need lots of ships to protect both fronts, plus, since they tend to hold things by force, a fair number to keep the planets they have subjugated under their thumb. Unless they can guarantee the Romulans aren't going to attack them, or they no longer care if their back ranks revolt, I've never felt they could send enough ships into Federation space to take on Earth, Vulcan, Aandoria, Tellar Prime, and who ever else is supplying the ships of the Federation.
But then we don't really have a detailed view of the back ranks and subjugated planets and resources of the Klingon Empire. Suffice it to say, the Romulans always felt they needed to join with the klingons, or keep the klingons and the Federation apart, to be secure. Since the trio seemed well balanced, each region remained relatively stable. To just assume one group and can pick up and beat another so handily without help or blessing or some other change in that dynamic mystifies me. And with the klingon philosophy, if they could do it, I think they would have done it. So something happened in the Yesterday's Enterprise timeline that shifted that balance of power. Given the romulans were involved in the attack on Narendra III, and in that timeline the Feds had no idea what happened to that lost ship C, it seems reasonable the Romulans were able to shift the balance of power, probably by putting a wedge between the Feds and the Klingons, joining with them, or supplying them. But in the prime timeline, the word got out, the Romulans failed to keep their covert operation off the books, the Klingons heard the Enterprise-C fought to the death for a klingon colony, and relations remained good between the Feds and the Klingons, while soured between the Romulans and the Klingons (given worf's attitude toward them).
If the reasoning is unsound, I'm keen to hear why anyone thinks so, but to simply state one just thinks the Klingons can do it all on their own doesn't give me much to work with. TWIMC.
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