Scimitar's work:
1.) warp drive out (Enterprise)
2.) warp core forcefield out (Enterprise)
3.) warp core damaged (Enterprise)
4.) two shield penetrations (Enterprise)
5.) near loss of dorsal shields (Enterprise)
6.) console sparking (Enterprise)
7.) aft shields down to 40% (Enterprise)
8.) one Warbird (faster than the E-E and nearly 1 1/2 times its size) losing a wing and being crippled
9.) forward shields down to 10% due to collision (indirect - the Scimitar was tossing other ships at them
- Enterprise)
At this point I have to take a moment to praise how good this movie looked. Yes, it sucked overall thanks to the writing, but even Darth Wong admitted the movie looked cool. Say what you will, being stoned makes movies seem less real. And this movie still feels real when I watch it. I can't say that of "The Phantom Menace" or "Attack of the Clones."
Watching the battle now it's almost as if the Enterprise and Romulans are being tossed about (and even into each other) by a storm of the Scimitar's making. Hmmm...definitely a good thing to have a ship that tosses the rest about like toys when it sneezes. Let's continue:
10.) second Warbird crippled with multiple hull breaches
11.) three more shield breaches on the Enterprise's saucer
12.) loss of structural integrity on decks 12-17, sections 4-10; sections are abandoned by having their SIF power diverted to shields (Enterprise)
13.) loss of ventral shielding to deck 29 (Enterprise)
14.) boarding party of perhaps half a dozen to a dozen aboard (Enterprise)
15.) hull breach on bridge (Enterprise)
Two Warbirds are wrecked along with the Enterprise, and:
Enterprise's marks on the Scimitar (one Scimitar, not two expensive Warbirds and the pride of Starfleet), with the help of the Romulans:
1.) console sparking
2.) cloak down (due only to Troi)
3.) no apparent hull breaches by weapons
4.) 30% loss of shielding (apparently forward, which makes sense - many of the Enterprise's hits were while the Scimitar was advancing on them - in other words whenever the Scimitar allowed it, because the Scimitar set up and controlled the whole battle)
5.) ramming: destruction of Scimitar shuttle bay
6.) ramming: loss of all Scimitar disruptors
7.) two armed boarders
This damage is done at the cost of:
1.) all of Enterprise's photon torpedoes and 96% of its phasers
2.) ramming - loss of the forward sections of the saucer
3.) ramming - collapse of internal structural members
4.) ramming - loss of ability to transport more than one person
The Scimitar is still warp-capable and still in possession of a weapon that can kill everyone on Earth, and Enterprise is doing its damnedest simply to back away from them at a few meters a second.
The Scimitar was simply superior to every other ship there, put together. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that it was not only a dedicated warship, but a purpose built weapon of mass destruction that massed roughly as much as its adversaries combined did.
You may as well argue that the Enterprise leaving scorch marks on the hull of a Star Destroyer when it explodes constitutes the Enterprise kicking the Star Destroyer's ass.
Enterprise E:
Before Troy's finding trick any fire the Enterprise managed to bring to bear successfully was widely spread about the entire shield system, over a period of time, allowing shield regeneration (assuming the Scimitar can do this) and damage control. A breakdown of the two ships main attack chance:
