The Enterprise fights while moving at FTL with FTL weapons. For any race that can only fight while moving sunlight, they might as well be sitting targets. They might be bigger and more powerful, but they can’t see the FTL Enterprise, nor hit it .
My first calculator WAS an abacus! I even figured out out to compute square roots on it :-) I still have it around somewhere…
It was also my first experience with Dynamic memory (memory that must be refreshed periodically). The desks at school were sloped and the beads would slowly start sliding down, but not quickly so you had time to “refresh” them by sliding them back up again before they got all the way down.
I see this as evidence that Brad will make a good father some day. He’s willing to go out of his comfort zone to help a kid.