Well let's see. If it is DUring the TNG then Star Trek. Difference in power?

SW: NEed a moon size base to destroy a planet.

ST: Can ignite the sun and just wipe out a solar system.

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Not only that, but Starfleet itself is small. In Kirk's era, he said there were only 12 "starships" - ships like the Enterprise - and they are widely scattered. In Star Trek The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier, the Enterprise was the only earth ship that could be spared for the mission. In the Search For Spock, the Excelsior was the only earth ship the Enterprise had to worry about escaping.

Even in the TNG era, it was rare to see ships as advanced as the Galaxy class Enterprise. Most were movie era ships, which would have been close to a century old.

In First Contact, the Federation musters a fleet of a dozen or so ships against the invading Borg. I just don't think the Federation has what it takes with withstand an Imperial fleet.

Actually StarFleet is quite large. In TNG era, they can field over 3600 Starship. This is not counting Ships from planetary defenses and colonies. We are talking about ship of the line. They also got quite a few Galaxy Class Ship in service.

How? The dominion war.

The dominon war showed how the federation field two single fleet which put their ships up at 600 vs the 1200 the Dominion had. The Federation wanted to get three fleet, which would have put them at 900 ships plus whatever the Klingons at the time wanted to throw into tip the scale.

Keep in mind this was fleets the Federation was willing to part with without compromising their entire defensive line.

Watch Deep Space Nine and you will see well over 600 federation ship slugging it out, with some fighter escort really. The majority is capital ships fighting.

Now, I hate to stay this but even during the final battle of Endor, they didn't seem to field that much ships. Even during the battle over Curosant didn't appear to field that many ship.

What happened in First Contact was all the ships that was available gathered at a single point to stop the borg.

This post was edited on 3/15/17 at 2:43 pm