Quick and easy way to balance PvP.

Make PvP ships and characters that have gear, stats, and skills predefined by Cryptic. These ships could be individually balanced against other predefined Crytpic ships and given strengths and weaknesses.

Allow PvP only with these predefined ships and character loadouts. Everyone would then be on equal footing and personal player skill would be the only factor in PvP.

You got it backwards: Itis not about "balancing PvP", it is about balancing the game and using PvP as tool to find out how to do it.