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I mean, I feel like Star Trek plays it fast and loose with baddie strength a lot.
You mean like the Klingon warbird that could fire torpedoes while cloaked and that tech just got hand waved away in all Star Trek after that?
Also, and maybe this is just me, but wouldn’t it be relatively easy to just “drop” torpedoes while cloaked and have them do a delayed launch thing? And nobody thought to cloak a torpedo, or at least give it some stealthy coatings? Complete amateur hour.
I guess you could assume that any substantial piece of matter will disrupt the cloaking field, but if you're thinking about autonomous weapons there's all kinds of other plot holes, too. It's pretty rare anyone has to deal with drones or mines of any kind in Star Trek, even though you'd think it would be super convenient with mostly-unblockable communications over subspace.
There were cloaked mines in DS9 and in ENT. But, like the transporter, they are as burdensome to the writers' room as they are useful.
Yeah, at this point, with Star Trek I pretty much just treat the "science" like magic. It would be a tall order to have consistent rules with no exceptions over decades, I get that. I don't think it's too much to ask the characters to have consistent motivations and abilities, though.
That's the thing about fiction. Unlike in reality, the characters have to be believable.