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   1 Star Wars Collectibles - Information on Star Wars Collectibles » Unofficial SGW - Star Wars vs Star Trek […] Unofficial SGW - Star Wars vs Star Trek Fatgadget wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHowever, if the Enterprise were to encounter the Star Wars universe as told by the prequels, Geordi and Data would figure out that it’s created by metachlorians and either synthesize some on their own or figure out some way to … […]

2. Guiguioh Posted: Feb 20th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

   2 It is actually midichlorians, not metachlorians. The midichlorians don’t generate the Force, they are needed to interact with it. You could severe the link to someone with the Force I guess. In the old movies, midichlorians are still part of the universe, this concept can be find on George Lucas hanwritten not from 1975-1976. He only use the term directly in the prequels, but the idea wasn’t a new one.

3. epoch9 Posted: Feb 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

   3 he may have had the idea since the mid-70’s, but that still doesn’t mean it was a good one. I think this vid was fantastic.

4. Taellosse Posted: Feb 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

   4 I think both the creators of this short and you may be underestimating the difference in scale between the Enterprise and a Star Destroyer. A Star Destroyer would wipe the floor with anything made by the Federation without even noticing. Go to http://www.merzo.net/ and click on the 10x tab. Right at the top, of course, is a Super Star Destroyer, like the Executor that crashed into the Death Star in RotJ. Scroll down a little bit, and you’ll see a regular Star Destroyer–they’re more than 1.5 km long. Go a bit more than halfway down the page, and you’ll see a whole bunch of tiny Starfleet ships beside a Borg cube, including the Enterprise E, which, by my estimate, is about 700 meters long. A Star Destroyer has dozens of turbolaser arrays and can deploy a fleet of TIE fighters. Admittedly, the TIEs won’t do much against the Enterprise, but they’ll keep what point-defense that it has occupied for the Star Destroyer to use it’s big guns. They’d never even need to bring the Executor into the mix to pop the Enterprise like a soap bubble, never mind the Death Star. Hell, a star destroyer could simply run into the Enterprise, and cripple it, and take only minimal damage. The problem with matching these two universes up is that the Empire is a big believer in the “bigger is better” philosophy of galactic domination. Bigger guns, bigger ships, bigger armies. I mean, they actually built a space station the size of a small moon for the express purpose of blowing up planets with a single shot. That’s really sort of absurd when you think about it.

5. Kevin Bahrt Posted: Feb 20th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

   5 Your forgetting the torpedoes from Startrek are antimatter based. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon for reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton so a 1 kilogram antimatter warhead is the equivilent of a city destroying 20 Mt nuke and as we all know a squadron of bombers can bring down with a few dozen kiloton warheads http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Proton_torpedo so if the enterprise fired a few torpedoes at maximum yield they could theoretically take out a star destroyer. Course I still support the Star destroyer cause star wars uses weapons I understand.

6. Taellosse Posted: Feb 21st, 2008 at 1:04 am

   6 True, I suppose. On the other hand, people in the Star Trek universe seem, save in a single scene in the second movie, to universally think 2 dimensionally. They don’t seem to understand that space is 3-dimensional and they don’t have to sit on the same plane as their opponents all the time. If the commander of the star destroyer were remotely intelligent, all he’d have to do would be to come at the Enterprise from above and bust it’s deflector screens with a few good volleys of turbolaser fire, then carve it up into little bitty pieces. Both universes are stupidly unrealistic in certain areas. The “science” of Star Trek is plot-based (let’s shoot some tachyons at it! That always works!), rather than remotely believable, and their understanding of tactics is virtually non-existent. Star Wars fails to grasp the sheer resources necessary to construct some of the shit they toss around so casually. I don’t think Lucas has any concept of how much metal would be required to actually build a super star destroyer, never mind one of those massively wasteful death stars. Still, accepting their respective tropes forces me to side with Star Wars.

7. buzzlefett Posted: Feb 24th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

   7 Even more exciting is when Q randomly appears and throws both fleets into the outer reaches of space and they have to work together to find a way back…wait they already did that didn’t they…?