Cargo idea

[jc173]

In seriousness I don't think fighters should contribute to boarding defense. Even if they were ready to go, armed, loaded, and manned, would you really want to fire weapons made to kill other starships inside your own ship? Imagine the havoc and internal destruction you'd cause by firing a rocket pod or AM torp. Troops/infantry I think would be a different story, although in the same vein I don't think vehicles/mechanized troops would be all that helpful unless there was enough room to deploy them and manuever... then again anyone ever watch Robotech? They did have some pretty massive battles inside the SDF-1 in a few episodes, but the internal configuration of the SDF-1 would have to pretty unusual for starship IMHO if not absolutely unique.