That was answered more than adequately in "Enterprise" with the Temporal Cold War-- it's because they're not dumb... or at least "dumb like a fox."WILGA wrote:Then why did the Federation not use a time-travel weapon to go back in time with the Dominion attack information and make their war a lot easier, if they have these weapons?Praeothmin wrote:As far as you know, that applies only to cloaking devices.
That does not apply to subspace-weapons or metagenetic weapons or time travel or ...
Is it because the Federation is dumb?
desperate times need desperate measuresPraeothmin wrote:That whatever the reason is (either they can't or they won't), we've never seen the Federation use these super-weapons even in a hopeless war (the Dominion War was pretty hopeless in the beginning, so hopeless in fact that Sisko risked alienating the romulans by planning a coup to rally them to the Federation's cause)...That they couldn't use such tactics to defend themselves in a war of destruction against the Empire or that they would be unwilling to use such tactics as a last resort?
Maybe they decide to not use such possibilities. It probably depends on what they expect from the Empire should it win. If a victory of the Empire means death in any case, the Federation has nothing to loose.[/quote]
Don't forget the Dominion War, where Section 31 uses genocidal germ-warfare on the Changelings, which would have wiped them out soon-- and while it was technically illegal, the Federation supported it, since the Dominion was not only winning, but was also the unquestioned aggressor in that war--and likewise had no scruples in using germ-warfare as a weapon of terror, even on its own people in the Gamma quadrant.
Fortunately, friendship prevailed, as Bashir and O'Brien saved Odo;and this likewise created peace through the spirit of that friendship-- thus likewise gaining the Federation a valuable ally via the Dominion.
And in both cases, Federation ships could have easily taken out both Death Stars.Yes, but that means that they do not exist any more.Praeothmin wrote:The first one by a Force user, the other one again by the actions of this Force user...No, both were destroyed.
And the first DS had blown up Alderaan before its destruction...
And in both cases, the Rebels had the plans for the DS and of their weaknesses...
As for treaties, they only exist when there's a balance-of-power that's being protected, or a mutual principle held more important than a military objective by both sides; that wouldn't be the case here, so there would be no treaties by the Federation protecting the Empire. So phase-cloaks, Genesis weapons, temporal warfare, trilithium warheads, midichlorian-destroying nanites, dimensional-shift transport and everything else would be fair game.
The Empire has also demonstrated its ruthlessness in destroying planets, so it's no fair holding up treaties to make the Federation fight the war with one hand died around their balls.