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oh cool
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
They don't go in with guns/phasers ready, heck most of the times they don't even raise shields beforehand.
And they have a whole protocol and rules for this:
Which is the same thing SG-1 did, make peaceful contact with weapons for defense.
Even with shields down a federation starship is still a very capable warship.