In Destiny, you can take out a higher level character with MUCH better gear in PvP even if you hardly have any gear worth mentioning. I'm not sure how Destiny does it, but I suspect they boost the damage for the lower level player/low-end gear. Why not adopt that for STO to revive its PvP aspect again? It would go a long way in balancing player gear in PvP and making fights more "skill-based."
As an example of Destiny's method, here's a funny video I found on youtube showing that a player can, with literally the first gun in the game, take out player after player in PvP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJaN3Zn1nw