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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that
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The number of times in trek where they could easily destroy the ship or entity that was causing the problem in the episode is huge in Trek. But they spend most of the episode trying to figure out how solve the problem with the minimum damage to both sides.
Even times where it could be argued that shooting at it is justified (the Crystalline Entity), they try to figure out other options.
Like running away.
In the case of the Crystalline Entity, running away is a valid strategy.
IIRC it followed them into warp…