Comments on: Answering A Penultimate Geek Question

By: JustTeasin

JustTeasin — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:44:09 +0000

If Darth Vader and other Sith aren’t on the DS at the time, a small boarding party from the Enterprise (about 3 should do) could take out the whole crew, since storm troopers have the same aiming skills as the A-Team.

By: TPRJones

TPRJones — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:53:26 +0000

Teleporters and the will to use them however you need to to win will always triumph over those not having teleporters or shields to stop them. It’s the deus ex machina that makes Star Trek plotting problematic.

Of course, every captain since Kirk is too much of a wimp to actually do what needs to be done to win a war against an oponent like Vader or Adama, so if it’s not Kirk in charge it goes back to being a tossup.

By: BostonBum0

BostonBum0 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:41:51 +0000

If I recall correctly from Star Wars fluff, the force only works on inhabitants from their galaxy. The example I am thinking of was called the Yuuzhan Vong. I think the force won’t even work on Trek universe humans for that reason.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/species/yuuzhanvong/index.html

By: blachawk

blachawk — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:37:19 +0000

A trekkie friend of mine whipped out his Enterprise tech manuals to settle the dispute when I posed this matchup a few years ago.

Assuming the Enterprise can use its speed to stay out of the way of the BFG (as someone earlier suggested), it can fire on the DS with impunity because the laser cannons of the DS, its escorts, and its fighters are not nearly strong enough to penetrate the shields of the Enterprise.

As for the telebomb trick, as is typical of the ST universe, there would be way too much 'interference' to pull that off.

By: Darniaq

Darniaq — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:32:30 +0000

Enterprise. Three reasons:

1) Teleporters (bothered me it took all the way to Voyager nearish-end-season for them to figure out the telebomb trick)

2) Shields. Unless the Enterprise engages the DS in drydock, it’s got no real shielding beyond normal magnetics. Use that Disrupter Cannon thing from Best of Both Worlds

3) Physics. In Trek, the Laws of Phsyics don’t apply. With the windup that the DS beam takes to fire, the Enterprise would have more than enough time to siddle out of the way. As long as Picard doesn’t want to have a conference about it first.

Now, the better question, the one that brings back all sorts of nostalgia:

Battlestar vs Enterprise.

By: Eso

Eso — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:11:00 +0000

Nicademus, you can pick up the second half of season 2 on Itunes, or other bittorrent providers if you’re a cheapo, until it comes out on DVD

By: Nicademus

Nicademus — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:18:22 +0000

Battle Meditation from KoTOR can swing whole battles.

And teleporting never works when its the simple solution, thats what so great about BSG they don't have to spend 15 minutes explaining why their omnipotent powers won't work in this case.

Speaking of which when the fuck is the full second season coming out on DVD? My damn Tivo crashed and I lost some episodes before watching them.

By: Dark Dryad

Dark Dryad — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:16:33 +0000

err geek

By: Dark Dryad

Dark Dryad — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:16:13 +0000

Methinks there is soon to be a geen orgasm here

By: xzzy

xzzy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:12:08 +0000

Couldn’t the Enterprise just teleport a bomb to the Death Star’s center?

The Force is good for nothing but one on one combat, and clearly the Federation has technological superiority. What the Empire has in girth, it lacks in dogfight capability. Obviously the Enterprise would be toast if the Empire was ever able to bring their weapons to bear, but you can’t forget the ace up Enterprise’s sleeve: Polarity reversal.