I love both as well for different reasons.
Star Wars Vs. Star Trek
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I love both as well for different reasons.
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But this is the problem for me. Yes, it is a seriously cool concept, but it is also completely unbelievable. A beam of coherent light of a limited length?
Yes, I suspend my disbelief and enjoy the movie, but this and the whole mystical force stuff puts the series into Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery masquerading as Sci-fi for me, so I don`t compare Trek and Wars.
Beam me up Scotty? colored lasers. lightspeed... there both full of unbelievable things...
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Two completely different imaginary environments. There is no way to compare the tech. The Federation doesn`t need a Deathstar to destroy a planet; they have "planet wrecker" missiles. What are the relative power levels of the ships? For all we know, a Defiant class ship would take a run at an Imperial Star Cruiser and punch a hole through the middle and come out the other side. On the other hand it might just circle around it like an annoying gnat. If you`re a TNG fan, you know the Federation has developed some serious cloaking technology, even if they don`t use it because of treaties with other races. Nothing like that exists in the Wars universe that I ever heard of (although I am admittedly not a major Wars fan).
You cannot make those kinds of comparisons, although some serious geeks try and will continue to do so.
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They have teleported subatomic particles in test labs already. Granted it was only like a yard in distance, but it can be done. The part I never quite bought about the transporters is the idea of doing it without a device at both ends; a transmitter and receiver to put you back together.
You ever see a laser sight?
Steven Hawking believes that we will eventually find a way to surpass the speed of light. People believed no one could go faster than sound until some one did it.
None of these things are unbelievable/impossible, only extremely difficult.
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i would have said star wars but that new star trek movie looks badass.
I think that kinda stuff is a lot of the reason that I don't particularly like Star Wars. Star Trek can has a distinct degree of believability to it -- one book that I recently read said something along the lines of, "The best science fiction is rooted in fact." I'm a science dork (Meteorology major, duh), so I enjoy sci-fi entertainment that's at least somewhat plausible.
I've never really been into the fantasy stuff. Well .. except for Harry Potter, but I'll blame that one on peer pressure.
And because I couldn't resist ..
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I know what you mean here... the Star Trek technology seems like it might be feasable some day... the Star Wars stuff (like the force) probably not
True completely different imaginary environments. I think you need to go read up on SW tech.
Cloaking device do exist in the SW universe. In the SW universe there are other weapons for destroying planets besides the Death Star. There are even weapons to destroy suns. As for a Defiant sized ship to take on a Star Destroyer it would be swatted down like a fly. A typical Star Destroyer is 1,609 meters in length. Is armed with 60 turbolasers, 60 ion cannons, 2 dual heavy ion cannons, 10 tractor beams, and numerous lesser weapons. Plus 72 Tie fighters and other assault smaller craft.
But we are not here to compare the two.
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Are you done changing this post? Is it safe to reply yet?
and I quote, "lasers? Those wouldn`t penetrate our navigational shields." (TNG)
Different fantasy worlds. Would the shielding and armor of the Defiant shrug those weapons off? How do you compare a "turbolaser" to a "phaser"? Is it the equivalent of 60 slingshots against a couple of assault rifles? As I stated before, would the Defiant be much more powerful (although significantly smaller) or would it be ineffective? I mentioned both possibilities because there is no way to compare.
About the cloaking stuff. I did look it up as you asked (as I pointed out, I am not a huge Wars fan) all references to it are in books, which limits knowledge of them pretty much to major Wars fans, except for the one reference in the scene where the Millenium Falcon hides by landing on the larger ship and the Imperial Commander makes the observation that no ship that small could have a cloak. But you never see one, in all those battle scenes and espionage, not one, so they must be quite rare, and in fact, according to my reading, they are almost non-existant and the most common ones are almost more dangerous than they are helpful as they not only render the ship invisible, but blind as well.
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Its all irrelevant, Spaceballs would take them all down. "Ludicrous speed!!!"
LOL...in their Winnie.
It is all irrelevant. But it would be neat to see both sides have a exchange.
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We all know the BistroMathematics Drive is the fastest there is anyway.
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Wars... I've just always been a huge fan of everything star wars... never seen an episode of trek.
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Star Trek FTW, while the stories are both cheesy the Star Trek ones are a lot more foreseeable and have a better story line episode after episode
Yoda, R2D2, Jabba the Hutt, pffft....
Resistance is futile, you'all will be assimilated, bastards, LOL
Yoda, R2D2, Jabba the Hutt, pffft....
Resistance is futile, you'all will be assimilated, bastards, LOL
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Sorry man... the poll has spoken... look at the total count!
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Don't know what they are talking about 
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