The only thing that would tilt the mass ratio back in favor of carried craft is for a starship to carry a large amount of combat deadweight, like an FTL drive that is cumbersome and contributes nothing to the fight. Pipes and hoses can only be so thin before they fail. And a larger unit will have a more favorable mass ratio because some parts can only get so small. It's not mass, but mass ratio, that matters, though. There were more than 100 classes of warship in operation. The Somers-class Destroyer had a crew of around 294. The Casablanca-class Escort Carrier had a crew of around 910. The New York-class Battleship had a crew of 1,042. - The Lexington-class Aircraft Carrier had a crew of around 2,791.Roughly 35,000 officers and 300,000 enlisted crew served at once. This included 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, 377 destroyers. - By the end of World War II, the United States Navy grew to 1200 major combat ships.However some science fiction depicts automation of systems, and small crews. As you say, a single Lexington-class Carrier in WW2 had a crew of 2,791 despite being shorter than James T Kirk's original USS Enterprise NCC-1701, with a crew of 400. Star Trek is smaller scale than Star Wars, so works a bit better. Franchises made mistakes or stylistic choices before of course, but there was also sometimes ambitious in their depiction of scale. JJ Abrams in particular lacks an imagination, always shoots films for spectacle, so all his starfighter dogfights are essentially conducted at World War I altitudes above planets, to give audiences placeholder references, as if starships are intended for the aerial theatre.
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