The story would be rewritten so that the true battle happens in orbit, between the USS Defiant and an orbital weapons platform. The Defiant would destroy it through the power of technobabble. The bridge crew would then mumble something about Klingon transports, and it would be assumed that the colony is taken easily because no army in the universe can withstand a bunch of moronic thugs running around screaming and waving bat'leths around in the air.