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Not sure which is which, but the guy arguing that it used a low-power shot is correct, later in the episode they have ship vs. ship combat and the beams from the Texas-class are much larger then. Varying beam power has been a thing forever in Star Trek, so it's not unprecedented that an AI would have intel on Starfleet stations and know just the right amount of power to do what it wanted to.