>>5287493Technically, this is true.
The Spirit of Eternity was small, sleek, elegant. And absolutely demolished the larger clunkier admech ships it encountered. I imagine other such DAoT ships were of a similar quality.
Rediscovering even a fraction of lost Federation ship technology could be worth any number of large ships of modern Imperial design. Who cares if you're the smaller ship if your armor, shields and weaponry are of such ungodly potency of human design.