Mittens > Claw hands 😉
I think I mentioned it before, but the whole, use this weakest power repeatedly to charge all other powers was quite off-putting for me.
For STO, one of the things leading to my departure (and until the end of ST: Enterprise, I was a huge Star Trek fan) was how every space battle devolved into both ships tightly circling each other. I tried several ways to prevent this and establish a better capital ships match-up, but the game's A.I., such as it was, was not having it, and always drove its ships into a tight spiral around mine. No skill or tactics, just brawler slugfest.