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- Wow, Worf's quarters are way bigger than I thought.
- Oh Defiant, sometimes you have 4 decks and sometimes 5
  
  Then there's that time there were just enough bulkheads to stop that dud torpedo.
Nonsense.
The Reliant is far bigger on the inside.
I think a bigger problem is the shuttle they gave Scotty. He can potentially sleep on the very narrow couch, but where's he going to pee? Into the replicator?
- Step 1: replicate human waste receptacle
  Step 2: utilize receptacle
  Step 3: place in replicator to be recycled at the molecular level
  Step 4: replicate air freshener
  
  I hope someone gave him some good instructions.
  Otherwise, at the last minute it's going to be like...
- Just poop on the poop deck (that's just the starfleet word for floor) and then do a baryon sweep on the poo. Problemo solved-o.
It's definitely bigger on the inside.
The Tardis doesn't have phasers or photon torpedoes, either. The Tardis has no offensive capabilities at all, whereas the Defiant is an offensive capability.
- my point is the obscene number of time travel episodes. its getting fairly egregious here in s5
  
  I thought it was a "bigger on the inside" joke, since the scale is a bit wibbly-wobbly.
- The tardis has the most dangerous weapon of all:
  The doctor. Dude is a brutal motherfucker.
  
  He's actively trying not to be a brutal mother motherfucker most of the time.
  
  Just depends on whose plot Armour is thickest.
  Of course we all know any battle between them would just turn into the stereotypical "two good guys fight because [reason] and now are teaming up to fight BBEG"
  Or the defiant would blow up, almost everyone escapes unharmed, and then the Defiant-A shows up next week like they totally had a second one already waiting.
- I mean it has no weapons, but at the same time, when your spaceship has the ability to tow planets into suns or black holes, or tow planetary bodies and fling them into other planets, or switch off the false gravity system and crush planets it lands on, or literally materialise around an entire star system. Shit, I'm sure in one season finale the TARDIS had the ability to destroy the entire universe...
  I dunno. It seems like despite having no conventional weaponry, the TARDIS has a lot of offensive capability, although the TARDIS is also sentient and seems pacifistic in nature.
  
  Humans can turn nearly anything into a weapon, no argument; even a bicycle has offensive capability. I don't think it's being pedantic to claim that the intent being the design is significant in this case.
  I read somewhere (Memory Alpha?) that the Defiant was Starfleet's first pure-play warship, the first starship that whose primary purpose was as an offensive attack craft. Whether or not that's true, the TARDIS' offensive capabilities are clearly just side-effects, like the ability to use a wrench as a club. A wrench makes a good club, but that's not what it was designed or intended for.

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