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Post #715725

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DrCrowTStarwars
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All Things Star Trek
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10-Jul-2014, 11:13 PM

Sorry but they stated lazers can't pass through deflector shields and the Star Wars ships can't fight at lightspeed or faster and some of those number are way off.  I mean if the Empire's ships can travel that fast then there is no way Han could ever escape them with the falcon traveling at a mere point five past light speed and besides if we go by what is shown instead of dialog then in Star Trek five the Enterprise traveled from earth to the center of the galaxy in a couple of hours.

But the big one for me is that if you are not traveling at warp speed then any ship traveling at that speed just vanishes from you perspective(I assume this is how Han could escape so many times just by jumping to lightspeed a few seconds before the ships chasing him,they couldn't see him to follow)and by the time you aim at something it is not there any more,so how does the empire protect it's self from ships that can fire at them while traveling at warp speed? Also we saw that all it takes is a few shots from one small fighter to take out the bridge of the largest star destroyer in return of the Jedi. Then there is the problem of transporters just beaming bombs on to ships. Oh and even if we take Han's statement that it would take a "Thousand star destroyers" to blow up a planet as a figure of speech that still leave them way behind starfleet in terms of fire power.  Let's say Han was way off and it would only take one third of that number to destroy a planet.  Alright so we have around three hundred ship to destroy a planet. That sounds pretty good.  Except that Han's remake seems to imply that he finds it hard to believe the empire has that number of ships,at least the line is delivered in such a way that we are lead to believe Han a character who seems to know how things work in the universe at large doesn't believe there could be enough ships out there to do the job. Meanwhile we saw that many ship committed to a single battle several times on DS9 and it was made clear there were other fleets of equal size still out there.  Still even if the numbers are even it was made clear in several episodes of the original Star trek that the Enterprise has more then enough firepower to blow up planets without breaking a sweat they just choose not to.  So one Ship on the federation side has the same firepower as the super weapon that took the Empire two decades to build or equal to about three hundred of the empire's ships.

Sorry but between this,warp combat,the federation ships being safe from lasers,and the transporter as big a Star Wars fan as i am I think things are much more complex then that chart makes out and it doesn't seem to agree with anything we have seen or heard on screen in either franchise. Tech manuals are all well and good but if we go by dialog and what is shown on screen I don't think the Empire stands a chance. Oh and if you put Sisko at the head of the Federation fleet,watch out!:)

Now if you want to see the Empire wipe the floor with some other Franchise I think only the Vorlons on Babylon 5 would stand a chance and i don't think they would help the rest of the galaxy.  The Empire would crush any fleet in the B5 universe.