I'm a new player, but having a ranged dps, not even a tank, needing 2+ people to focus them down or they wipe your whole team sounds completely broken to me; especially one that "counters meleers". That's a direct quote from your completely illogical fanboy defense of a class I haven't even seen.
I'm a new player, from STEAM, I'm also someone who abandoned STO very early in my free 60 days there before it went F2P (and never looked back). I spent probably an hour making my character last night and haven't even left the beach at the very start yet. Reading your description of this system is making me reconsider even…