Star Wars vs Star Trek

Discussion in 'SciFi & Fantasy' started by Pollux V, May 9, 2002.

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Which universe would win?

  1. Star Trek

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    35.5%
  2. Star Wars

    268 vote(s)
    41.9%
  3. Spaceballs

    47 vote(s)
    7.3%
  4. Farscape

    12 vote(s)
    1.9%
  5. Dune

    50 vote(s)
    7.8%
  6. Stargate

    36 vote(s)
    5.6%
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  1. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    phasers can allso be hand held. at full power they compleatly desintegrate or vaporize or whatever you call it a human sized target. they blast trough several cubic meters of solid rock. the only thing they can not do is your laundry

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  3. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    HAHAHAHA!!!!!!
    they are "saving it"?????
    what part are they saving if you don't mind me asking? oh yes i know!!!! the command tower

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  5. Hotspur Registered Member

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    Not unless they've encountered the weapon previously.

    The key to Borg adaption is assimilation. In "Q Who," the Borg didn't adapt to the Enterprise's weapons until they had assimilated some crewmen.
     
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  7. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    i agree that the ISDs had no bussines being there. they are just so easy to hit. but there is no indication they were weaponless. the ISD that pursued the Falcon was capable of firing and they wee allready exiting the field in their pursuit, which leads to the conclusion that they actualy went through more asteroids to get there.
    there are several posibilities as to why the did not fire though...

    1. the asteroid was comming in to fast. either to fast for their main guns (since this was a large asteroid) or to fast for their targeting systems.
    2. it was coming in from a blind spot. not likely since ISDs are seamingly covered with bateries on all sides. however since this was a much larger asteroid the all shot before they maybe neaded to shot it with their main guns. these guns are on lateral broad side placements and there is just no way they can cover this high + y axis angle.
    3. since this asteroid was to big to destroy dey desided not to bother shooting it but instead divert full power to shields or something.

    i personaly favor a combination of 1 and 2. the possibity 4 would be that the imperials are utterly incompetant, but that makes no sence.
     
  8. Cody Registered Member

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    Probably One, since asteroids can be very fast in some circumstances.
     
  9. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    i don't think there is an official explanation why the Borg can't adapt to the species 8472. at least not that i can remember. i don't have all the Voyager episodes on disk. if someone has them they may enlighten us.

    maybe it was something to do with the fact that species 8472 and their technology were originating from another dimension. we do know that modified nano probes were extrimely efective against them though.
     
  10. Cody Registered Member

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    No, I remember. It was something about brute force.
     
  11. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    ok interesting speculation for al of you SF fans (and it's related to the main topic), diference betwean pulses and beams.

    we are not shure about TLs, but both phasers and disruptors show the ability to be used as pulses or beams. what is the diference and what are the advantages. the folowing is strictly my speculation based upon what we see on screen.

    let us say that you as a weapon designer have no tech dificulties to build your weapon as either or both. so if we asume that your weapon can chanell 10^6 jules of energy per second or 10^6 watts, you can do it buy "compressing" this energy in a 1/10 s bolt or pulse or you can chanell it in a 1s duration beam. how will these weapons act upon contact. the bolt will transfer all of its energy much faster. thus if they hit a target all of the bolt will "detonate" (i asume this is a particle weapon-directed energy) at once. examples of this are seen when even the smallest allmost invisble asteroids cause the TL bolts to detonate compleatly or when the Defiant shots her pulse phaser at teh Jem'Hadar. we know little of SW shields. but ST shields are modulated and unless otherwise specified this modulation is computer controlled so that the shield tryes to conform as best as possible to deflect incomig fire. now, if the all the energy is released at once the shield has little time to adapt, thus pulses and bolts are more eficient when combating heavy shielding.
    beams on hte other hand do not deliver all their energy at once. thus in the first 1/10 s they will deliver only 10% of their damage potential. this will give the shield time to adapt. however if the shield is allready penetrated the bolts have on disadvantage. they will detonate with all their power imediatly on impact. thus most of the blast will hit the surface of the target. this makes bolts and pulses less armor penetrating. we have an example of this when the snow speeders can't penetrate AT-AT armor. they don't even scratch it. since all the energy is released on impact most of it disipitates outwards. beams do not have this problem. we see that when the E-D fires her first 1.1s beam at the cube it not just makes a hole it, but drives right through. so the beams, being continous in nature do not loose all their energy on initial contact and provide the "drilling" armor piercing efect.

    which weapon is beter? well both i guess. it mostly depends on what type of enemy you are figthing. if the enemy is wuth strong shields, you need pulses, if the enemy has strong armor you need beams. i would prefer a combination of both just to be on the safe side

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  12. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    that won't do. we need documented sighting.
    i can't tell really. for me the Borg ability to adapt has always bean dubious. do they have shields or not? do they adapt or not? is their adaptation limited to the power level or not? Voyager just makes it worst. originaly the cube did not have any shields except for strong EM field to prevent beaming from long range. the cube just apeared to adapt to the deferent types of damage it sustained. do note that allthough they drilled 3 holes in it with phasers before it adapted, it was allready imune to ther photon torpedoes (in Q-Who). this probably means that the have incountered photon torpedoes before. however later in Voyager 7 of 9 claims regenerative shielding on some borg vessels. the cube in First contact allthough largely resistant was still takng damage from all weapons. so what is Borg imunity?
    my guess woul be some combination of energy screens and adaptive shielding. maybe some ships have only on of those or both. the screens provide reduced eficiency for some attacks, while the shields deflect incoming damage. the screens form some secondary backup system of protection after the shield fails. i'd guess the drones do not really have shileds as such, buth rather adaptive screens. this would explain why they suffer melee damage but are resistant to incoming particle and directed energy attacks.
    but this is just a guess. nowhere on screen are this things mentioned.
     
  13. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    here is what i found on the net:

    Species 8472 is telepathic in nature, and at this point, it is unknown if they have a spoken language or not. They emit a bio-electric field that disrupts the transporter, preventing getting a lock on or near them. Narrowing the transporter confinement beam doesn't work. The bio-electric field also prevents tricorders from being able to localize the location of Species 8472. The cells of this species are densely coded and have more than one hundred times the DNA a human cell would have. They have an extrordinary immune response. Anything that enters the cell membrane are immediately destroyed. Therefore, the Borg can't assimilate them. They are highly resistant to all forms of technology. However, species 8472 is vulnerable to the modified nanoprobes. Species 8472 is made of the same material as their ships. They are capable of living in the vaccuum of space with no life support. They can also crawl along the hull of a starship without additional support. They are also capable of regeneration. Species 8472 don't particularly like being in humanoid form and having to do things such as sleep, bi-pedal movement, and breathing oxygen.
     
  14. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    Species 8472 attacks with their claws whenever they can. This will transfer their cells to the victim. These cells, once in the victim's blood, will begin to consume the body from the inside out, essentially eating the victim alive. The victim will be conscious during this process because all sedatives and other treatments to the infection are neutralized immediately. While the fire power of one ship is extrordinary, they can combine their fire power by forming a circle with a number of other ships, with one ship in the center of the circle. All the ships fire at the main center ship, which collects the fire power and amplifies it out, causing enough fire power to destroy a planet.
     
  15. antaran_1979 Registered Senior Member

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    "Species 8472 use organic biomass ships (which appear to be actual living lifeform as opposed to just organic components as evidenced by the vertabrae seen upon entering the ship). Each biomass ship has a crew complement of one. The ships seem to be impervious to Federation (or Borg, for that matter) technology: ship sensors can't penetrate the surface of the biomass ship, transporters can't lock onto it, and the tractor beam has no affect on it. It has been demonstrated that the biomass can dissolve through the hulls of Borg ships and therefore can probably dissolve through the hull of the Voyager. Wherever Species 8472 came from, their ships use warp propulsion with anti-matter technology. Inside the ship, there are organic conduits which carry an electro-dynamic fluid. This quite possibly could be an energy source. There is also a binary matrix laced with neural peptides, which could be their idea of a computer core. The biomass ships have the ability to regenerate themselves."

    they look to me as if they were an imunlogical responce, and not a species. this goes for their ships too. so i can't tell what is the base of their power. maybe it is in hte ability to bypass most defences.
     
  16. Cody Registered Member

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    I know 8472's weakness: They are gutless. Kill a half-dozen off them and they retreat. Like in Scorpion.
     
  17. Hellblade8 Valued Senior Member

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    The evidence does not support that conclusion. At most, ISDs have about 1 megaton for heavy turbolasers. The Borg on the other hand, can easily absorb the output of a starships warp engines, and MT level weapons without a problem.


    ...so what?:bugeye:

    Really? You mind posting it and giving me the link?


    Are you stupid, or do you have a short memory.:bugeye:

    There would have to be a wormhole of sorts because they exist from two different universes. That's how they get connected. Now will yiou stop spouting bullshit and actually prove anything you claim?

    Back up that number with evidence. And furthermore, it was never stated that the Borg took even ten years to build that fleet up.

    Where do you get your claims from?



    Ah, then so would the Dominion, the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Borg, Species 8472, the Cardassians, and the Breen...and that's just off the top of my head.
     
  18. Hellblade8 Valued Senior Member

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    8472's firepower is several orders higher than what even ICS claims. Nine of those ships literally linked up to form a planet buster. The Borg cubes could take 2-3 shots from each of them before being overwhelmed.

    Do the math.
    Big enough to *walk* through?:bugeye:
     
  19. Cody Registered Member

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    No, no, no. 1 MEGATON? No, no, no. Mith might have gone crazy while typing this. Even if you don't consider the ICS canon, it is, as it is movie-level canon because Lucas approved it. 200 Gigaton firepower still stands.

    That's for your debates with Skywalker. For mine, only canon alliances stand. Say goodbye, Federation.
     
  20. Hellblade8 Valued Senior Member

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    Um, no.

    At that point, Seven of Nine had regained connection to the Borg collective, and would have transmitted all of the data on the nanoprobes that would allow the Borg to one shot every bioship.

    Look at the bioship; they're small, but they only have one weapon mounted in the front, and it takes longer to charge than other weapons. The Borg however, while much larger, have weapon emplacements all around their ships, including energy beams, and torpedos. To make matters worse, 8472's weapon was a line weapon; meaning it could only directed at one target at a time. torpedos however, have an area effect when they explode. This means, that one well placed torpedo could take out ten. Add thist to the fact that Borg ships have at least eight torpedo launchers, and 8472 is now severally outgunned, not to mention at least ten or so lasers. Fighting the borg wouldn't have been bravery, it would have been stupidity. You'd basicly be fighting an enemy that has you outnumbered, outgunned, and has a higher suvivability rate than your ships.
     
  21. Cody Registered Member

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    No, it was eight normal ships linking with a special one. Proof of the several orders higher?

    Most. Anything on par or higher than Leia's sporting blaster in Episode IV can roughly blow big chunks of wall off.
     
  22. Cody Registered Member

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    No, I was saying that if you kill a half-dozen 8472, they would retreat, like they did in Scorpion.
     
  23. Hellblade8 Valued Senior Member

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    I have provided evidence of George Lucas denouncing EU and his Star Wars taking place in the same universe, you will provide counter evidence now, or you will be reported to a mod.

    I have gone over this with you several times, I am sick of having to do so. Provide evidence to back up your claims, or they will pushed aside.

    So?

    The Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans are all allies.

    That's more than enough.
     
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