Star Wars Super Star Destroyer Executor (Darth Vader's Capital Ship) VS Most powerful ship in Star Trek

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mercanucaribe

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I think it's obvious that Star Wars wins.. Which isn't that big a deal considering the specs of every scifi ship is completely made up. What if the Star Trek creators decided to tack on a few 0s to all specs?
 

eelw

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Yup. Q FTW!!!!!

Anyhow, the episode of TNG with the old couple surviving the planet wide massacre. Now that beast of a ship was crazy.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: So
You're right, if the enterprise gets a 1 in a million lucky shot, after flying slowly through a weaker portion of the shield and skimming along the dorsal surface of the ship which is studded with anti fighter turbolasers that might well vaporize the ship in one hit.

Also, the A-wing had FTL drives of it's own, you don't think those had more antimatter than the 1kg in a torpedo?

Maybe picard will use the force.

As per Memory Alpha:
1.5kg charge of antimatter
25 isoton yield = 64.41 megatons

Quantum torpedo: 128.82 megatons

Mark VI photon torpedo: 515.28 megatons

Tricobalt explosive: 20,000 teracochranes. This can rip through to subspace.
The Defiant's warp field is only 39 cochranes, so the tricobalt explosion is damn powerful.


Originally posted by: DrPizza
Star Trek: I never saw someone miss when they shot their phaser

Star Wars: Crappy aim.
You didn't watch many Star Trek episodes. :) They do miss plenty, but their sights are apparently calibrated much better.
Though, in general, there was much less shooting in Star Trek.
 

JEDIYoda

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
the Borg Cube wins every time

you will be assimulated

http://www.mrpoesmorgue.com/usvsd/borgs/nuborg.html

The Borg's main defense is their ability to adapt to the frequency of Star Trek weapons, rendering them useless after a few shots. The Federation has found ways around this by employing frequency modulating phasers, which slows the Borg down until they adapt to all the frequencies the weapon uses. Star Wars weapons aren't frequency dependant, and wouldn't be subject the Borg's special ability.

However, the Borg's ability to adapt to even Trek weapons doesn't mean that they can adapt to weapons of all power levels, but this claim has been made by diehard VS Trekkies anyway. The limits to Borg adaptability is proven in several instances, starting with TNG's "Descent, Part 2", where a Borg ship is taken out by a phaser induced solar flare.

Since stars have been around far longer than the Borg have, it doesn't stretch credulity to assume that they've certainly encountered a sun before "Descent, Part 2". In their entire existence, they've never managed to adapt to a sun's power, therefore, that kind of power level is too much for the Borg to handle. A typical Star Wars turbolaser is thousands of times more powerful than any solar flare.

We have also seen Borg Cubes blasted to pieces by Species 8472 weapons, which were so powerful they overwhelmed the Borg's ability to adapt to them.

After losing 400 cubes, they still had no defense and no apparent adaptation to the raw power from 8472 weaponry..

And in Star Trek: First Contact after a sustained bombardment of Federation weaponry that the Borg have previously been shown to adapt to, that particular Borg's cube's energy grid was fluctuating from the damage it was receiving. This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that any weapons power that is more powerful than the Borg's ability to adapt to it can destroy a Borg Cude.

 

dighn

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this must be like the 20th thread we've had here :p anyway, the SW universe ships seem to rely on sheer size and amount of fire power. but overall, the technology of the ST universe is much more advanced. they actually have some extremely powerful weaponary (Jeff7's post) but a lot of that power is downplayed in the literature.
 

ForumMaster

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Originally posted by: Specop 007
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
the problem with comparing these thing, is that you can't. ST was created with thought and is much more realistic. besides, just like in those Scorpion episodes, get a couple bioships and link 'em together. no need for a giant moon sized station. and the borg would make mince meat of any SW vessel.

LOL!

So "scientific" proof was given that SW would slaughter the Borg and you just pull something out of your chocolate starfish.
Nice.

:D

what i meant is that the technical specs of the star wasrs destroyer is totally impossible and unrealistic. they weren't in the same "universe" and you can't meaure them against one another. a phaser is better then a laser no matter how powerful the laser is. and species 8472 kicks any other specie's ass.
 

sandorski

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Just fire the Genesis Device at the Deathstar, put on some bermuda shorts, grab a pitcher of ice tea, and sun yourself at the beach!!
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Death Star, FTW. It blows up planets, so there sure as hell is no ship in either universe that could withstand a hit from it.

Again 8472 Bioships did blow up planets.


Also, the Death Star wouldn't be able to move at even sublight speeds. The amount of power required to move the thing would be akin to the energy generated by a star.

Species 8472 shouldn't count. That was an invention of Startrek Voyager's lousy writers when even bringing in Jeri Ryan as a Borg couldn't improve their horrible ratings.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Species 8472 shouldn't count. That was an invention of Startrek Voyager's lousy writers when even bringing in Jeri Ryan as a Borg couldn't improve their horrible ratings.

Plenty of things fall into that category. The Ferengi were meant to take over the role that the Klingons held in TOS - antagonists. Audiences didn't find them to be menacing though, courtesy of the large ears. So they were given their.....somewhat less dignified role that they have now: an occasional annoyance, and comic relief.
 

sandorski

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Death Star, FTW. It blows up planets, so there sure as hell is no ship in either universe that could withstand a hit from it.

Again 8472 Bioships did blow up planets.


Also, the Death Star wouldn't be able to move at even sublight speeds. The amount of power required to move the thing would be akin to the energy generated by a star.

Species 8472 shouldn't count. That was an invention of Startrek Voyager's lousy writers when even bringing in Jeri Ryan as a Borg couldn't improve their horrible ratings.

Hehe, found this post rather Ironic considering the premise of the thread. :thumbsup:
 

Horus

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So it's decided. The Enterprise-E could pwn the hell outta a SSD. Oh yes, uber-pwnage.
 

preslove

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ST attempts to be more observant of physics. SW just doesn't care and puts out really ridiculous stats in their literature. So SW wins.