Ok you guys are missing the main problem here. Even with all the advantages that the Empire could possibly have. The Defiant alone could completely shatter any hope that the Empire would have.
All the Federation would have to do is sneak a cloaked Defiant past the Imperial ships, launch a quantum torpedo into the mouth of the wormhol and collapse it using the blast.
This idiot claims to have a solid understanding of Star Wars technology, but he's never heard of CGT arrays.
More importantly, who's to say that this wormhole is the exact same as the one the Defiant collapsed? Even more importantly, if the wormhole is located any distance from Fed space, its going to take them weeks, months, or years to get the Defiant there, and by that time the war is over. And even then, the Imperial shps could simply sit on the far side of the galaxy, hyperdrive over to Federation territory at will, and hit their facilities and planets without fear of repercussion.
JMSpock has no grasp of basic military strategy whatsoever.
Then the Empire is totally cut off from the Federation. After that target every ISD, SSD, or other major warship with a Constitution class ship loaded with Antimatter explosives....and you have one big mass of wrecked Imperial ships. They Empire would never have a chance in hell against that.
Too bad that with hyperdrive the Imperial fleet that magically gets cut off can simply sit a galaxy away and jump in to Fed space, hit them, and retreat with impunity, rendering this kamikaze strategy useless.
Besides, how exactly are exploding ships with bombs with yields in the megaton range even going to hurt ships which are designed to eat teraton barrages and smile?
Its just like the Dominion, if they could have successfully launched a massive assault with their full fleet, they would have decimated the Federation and penetrated at least as deeply as Earth before any kind of resistance could have been mounted. But the logistics prevented this.
The logistics prevented them from pulling it off because of the limited nature of their propulsion, something which will not hurt the Empire in any way. They needed the wormhole, and controlling it was a vital strategic objective to winning the war; an Imperial fleet in their galaxy needs no wormhole and can hit and run without any trouble at all.
Even if the theoretical wormhole on the Trek galaxy side was collapsed, Imperial garrison fleets would still be able to kill and destroy with no trouble at all, and would have little difficulty getting assistance from local AQ or other powers, either through normal or gunboat diplomacy.
JMSpock does not seem to understand that hyperdrive is the single most pwoerful weapon the Empire can bring to bear; forget insane firepower or industrial capability, their FTL manueverability is far beyond anything the Federation can dream of acheiving and gives them the mobility they need to hit when and where they want to.
Not only that, a single weapon could totally decimate the Imperial Fleet, build a couple ships loaded with a few thousand transphasic torpedos, and the Empire goes bye bye.
Just because transphasic torps are dangerous against the Borg does not mean that they are dangerous against a much more competent, better armed, and better-protected enemy like the Empire.
Besides, the Empire's massive speed advantage gives them the ability to hit any torpedo manufacturing facilities and shipyards with impunity, meaning that the capacity to construct transphasic torpedoes and load ships with them is irrelevant. And more importantly, the Empire's speed advantage means they would have no problem simply avoiding such Federation ships if they were a threat.
