This seems to have been forgotten.
It started in 1981 when the Klingon D7 always beat the Fed CA...but Kirk always won, so this had to be wrong. So, the Fed CC was invented, with 2 more Phaser1 and 2 free APR to power them.
Then the Klinks got the D7C, then scatterpacks, the fighters started getting better, then someone decided that Hydrans,Kzin and Gorn should actually have a chance, instead of being the French, Romanians, Polish, Italian WWII/F+E equivalents and all went downhill...
Of course anything with MAC, MEC or CLC in the name is Space Limburger for the Esteem-Challenged.
Now that's how you start a flame war