That would be cool. Though personally I think that one trained person wielding a sword can be more effective than given credit for here if security is not trained to address such a threat.
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Well... I was kind of going minimum effort with that one...
Like? Do you remember the Doctor's mobile emitter? That was from the 29th century... Which means since the 29th century they have had the ability to make long lasting personal forcefield emitters the size of a credit card that would make the wearer all but immune to sudden physical impacts.
And Klingons had phaser resistant armor since TNG season 2. Didn't do much later on.
Energy weapons change as they advance... Kinetic impacts... Not so much.
I would imagine tech could be applied to swords too. Swords are not some low tech device that can never change .
Monofilament blades and other Tech advances have been a staple of physical bladed weapons in many a Science Fiction setting.
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Lest we forget lightsabers. 
pretty much.
and that’s why armies today still trains soldiers to use swords and equips them with swords in combat.
Oh, wait...
Starfleet isn't soldiers.
And US soldiers still use combat knives and train in hand to hand combat.
As a backup option. Point is that in the vast majority of cases someone with a gun is going to make short work of someone with a blade.
Potentially. Not always, certainly not in genre fiction. Just a new version of Klingons.
Actually, that's not a novelty.
We've seen the 24th century employ personal shields the size of a wristband... TNG used field projectors to insulate wearers from being stuck in a given time frame.
VOY employed similar technology (wristband field projectors) at least twice... one for pushing subspace fractures away from a wearer, and another one to generate a protective subspace field around a person.
There's also the space suit personal forcefield belt from TAS (and that's 100 years earlier).
So, having a mobile emittter the size of a credit card in the 29th century is a bit nuts... when I first saw that, I thought to myself... 500 years more advanced and that's as small as it goes?
Come on.
The size reduction we saw would have occurred in a span of a century or two max,... not 500 years... but a large part of that mobile emitter could have been its power cell - they had ones the size of a coin in the 31st century during the temporal wars... so its possible the mobile emitter had similar (just less potent, and larger scaled) version.
And holograms are just forcefields at their core, just saying. The doctor’s mobile emitter is from a few centuries before discovery.
And thank the Prophets they did. 
"I'm a soldier, not a diplomat."
- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy"
Double-fist punch and flying double-boot kick beat all...
Shhh...that wss was the joke.
Science has always taken the back seat in Star Trek. It’s not a show about science. It is, OTOH, a show about feelings and (gasp) action.
Being a “Sci-Fi” person has never been a qualification to run Star Trek. Or even to write for it. Neither has being a science person. IIRC, Gene told prospective writers not to worry about that stuff, when creating TOS. I’m not even sure how big a science or SF guy Gene was really.
Star Trek is a franchise where a starship that uses natural crystals to fly thousands of times faster than the speed of light visits planets where aliens routinely speak English and look pretty human. Science went out the door with Star Trek about 57 years ago.
Exactly.
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