In one of the last interludes someone was visiting a certain moon with a superweapon. Wasn't that in the system where Gammon is? If so - after Ixiria, they know they are next.
Disabled ships are 12month repair jobs, and tend to be expensive. But yes, they can be repaired. I'm assuming no one wants to scrap these ships.
No, there's canon support. Basically the first thing we see a Romulan ship doing in the entire canon is uncloaking to give Enterprise a duck's-eye-view of a shotgun blast. Note, that's not the Romulan ship on fire. That's the weapon it just shot at Enterprise.
We don't normally use starships to hold fixed defensive locations. Also, we can't use mines to interdict the whole system. That's a completely different order of problem than just wrapping individual planets with minefields you have to cross to get into effective weapons range of them, which is bad enough already from a practical point of view. Plus, an installation like Iron Hail is going to be very expensive.
What if "they" turns out to be a Caitian ship that didn't update its charts? What if "they" turns out to be a totally unknown neutral species?
Given how fast our ships have been jumping around, I doubt we were in a position to capture very much equipment.
That is an extremely good way for you to handle this kind of thing. Yaaay!
Excelsior:
It would seem that Nash kicked all the ass, but that the member world ships attached to her task force took a beating in the process.
Guest course program and intensified maneuvers with Starfleet.
"This version of The Drumhead is way different than what I remember"
It would be our call to scrap them in place, or to tow the damages hulls and assorted ship bits back to the edge of the Federation logistical network.
God I forgot how good that image was, lolAs is often the case, a @Leila Hann picture is worth a thousand words.
