They say humans' love of replicators and root beer makes them weak and soft.
Nah. As Quark once observed, replicators and root beer is what keeps humans docile and agreeable. Take away their creature comforts and back them into a corner, and they get mad and start blowing up planets, and nobody wants that.
So whatever you do, don't break the replicators!
Bear in mind, by the way, that Starfleet has at least one weapon that destroys planets in one shot: the Genesis device.
The Federation treaty that prohibits it from developing cloaking devices exists for a reason: a ship with a Genesis torpedo and a cloak could destroy any other power's homeworld at will with no warning.
That is terrifying.
If not for the treaty, every power in the galaxy would start a desperate all-out war against the Federation to stop it from doing that.
Oh, and the one time some humans decided to violate the treaty and make a cloak anyway, they made the phasing cloak, which makes a ship not merely invisible but able to *hide inside planets*.
They could leave behind a Genesis device on every homeworld, buried under kilometers of rock, and detonate it whenever they please.
#StarTrek humans are f**king scary, man. Good thing they're such goody-two-shoes all the time, or everybody else (except Q and the Borg) would be COOKED.
@argv_minus_one
Don't forget, a plan (from a Terran, but approved by Starfleet command) was exactly that: "leave a weapon of mass destruction inside the Klingon homeworld near a bunch of fault lines or whatever so that we can threaten to set it off and blow up the whole planet". Used as a negotiating tactic to get the Klingons to end the war. Unsurprisingly, it worked, and didn't leave the Klingons that friendly towards Starfleet afterwards.
That was a couple of decades BEFORE they invented the Genesis device.
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Gareth 🏴