Quote Originally Posted by davedove View Post
Other than ships, what about ground forces. After all, if you destroy the planet, you can't use it yourself. I was most impressed with the ewoks and their triumph over superior technology. There's nothing quite like the home ground advantage.
That's one area that Star Trek was always weak on. There seemed to be more concentration of ground capability in the closing seasons of DS9, but other than that they always focused on the space part. I think of it more as something left out because it wasn't important than as something the Federation didn't have, though I also think Starfleet's main strength has always been and will always be their ships.

The Klingons and Romulans we know have good ground troops, and on the Star Wars end of it the Empire obviously had ground troops.