I mean it has no weapons, but at the same time, when your spaceship has the ability to tow planets into suns or black holes, or tow planetary bodies and fling them into other planets, or switch off the false gravity system and crush planets it lands on, or literally materialise around an entire star system. Shit, I’m sure in one season finale the TARDIS had the ability to destroy the entire universe…
I dunno. It seems like despite having no conventional weaponry, the TARDIS has a lot of offensive capability, although the TARDIS is also sentient and seems pacifistic in nature.
Humans can turn nearly anything into a weapon, no argument; even a bicycle has offensive capability. I don’t think it’s being pedantic to claim that the intent being the design is significant in this case.
I read somewhere (Memory Alpha?) that the Defiant was Starfleet’s first pure-play warship, the first starship that whose primary purpose was as an offensive attack craft. Whether or not that’s true, the TARDIS’ offensive capabilities are clearly just side-effects, like the ability to use a wrench as a club. A wrench makes a good club, but that’s not what it was designed or intended for.
I mean it has no weapons, but at the same time, when your spaceship has the ability to tow planets into suns or black holes, or tow planetary bodies and fling them into other planets, or switch off the false gravity system and crush planets it lands on, or literally materialise around an entire star system. Shit, I’m sure in one season finale the TARDIS had the ability to destroy the entire universe…
I dunno. It seems like despite having no conventional weaponry, the TARDIS has a lot of offensive capability, although the TARDIS is also sentient and seems pacifistic in nature.
Humans can turn nearly anything into a weapon, no argument; even a bicycle has offensive capability. I don’t think it’s being pedantic to claim that the intent being the design is significant in this case.
I read somewhere (Memory Alpha?) that the Defiant was Starfleet’s first pure-play warship, the first starship that whose primary purpose was as an offensive attack craft. Whether or not that’s true, the TARDIS’ offensive capabilities are clearly just side-effects, like the ability to use a wrench as a club. A wrench makes a good club, but that’s not what it was designed or intended for.
True, but you also remember why blue whales don’t have teeth or defensive capabilities
their sheer size means they don’t need them