re: #197 Varek Raith

Heh.
Forget the phasers. They're useless against a drone.
*Takes out sword* This is far more effective.
Who writes that crap?
;)

It's the same as other series cloaking enemy soldiers in bulletproof armor, a means of neutralizing the weapons that the good guys rely upon the most. Starfleet doesn't have guns or swords because, according to Gene, they'd long since "evolved" past them due to their inability to do more than kill.