It looks like we have an answer in the endless Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. If the USS Enterprise showed up in Imperial controlled San Francisco, the Death Star could easily blast the starship out of the sky. It’s that simple. Star Wars wins.
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I don’t want to start a flame war, but star wars is LAME. I dont like fantasy mixed in with my sci-fi. The force? Is that like magic? Why not just throw some wizards in there too. Lightsabers? Is that a laser sword? Maybe in a few hundred years technology will progress enough for them to make laser bow and arrows. Star wars has cool technology and a good plot, but theres just too much that makes no sense.
so wait…Star Trek is not a form of fantasy? So lightsabers fantasy and beaming is what??
transporters: reasonable extrapolation of future technology based on present day research. Lightsabers: retarded.
Sorry, you find disintegration someone’s molecules and reconstructing them, not on another disintegration/recreation device (ship to ship beaming) but somewhere hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away (ship-to-planet beaming) a “reasonable extrapolation” and more believeable than a lightsaber?
OK, man. If you say so.
@p-diddy, the point is not that lightsabers are more technologically feasible than transporters, its that lightsabers are retarded. You spend all this time money and energy weaponizing lasers and you come up with a sword? Seriously? Your technologically advanced weapon can be defeated by anybody standing 20 feet away and a good aim at rock throwing.
and beaming up & down, cloaking devices, putting whales in the hold of a bird of prey, and a torpedo exploding in a starship becoming a planet, looping around the sun at warp speed to go back & forth through time?? THAT makes PERFECT SENSE? IT’S SCI-FI! some ya gotta like, some ya gotta blow off. either way, to each their own! What do you think of Dune? THAT’s one of my favorites as well. I happen to be both a star trek fan and star wars fan. I’m too much into baseball & cheer the red sox and hate the yankees, so the star wars trekkie battle just never occupies my mind, the the idea of the Enterprise taking on the death star, well, that’s a suicide mission for kirky boy there, but throw in some klingon birds of prey, and pit them against the empire, THEN we’ve got something. Remember, it took teency little fighters to get in there & blow the thing up in the first place….TWICE! I’m not trying to cause trouble, or anything, I’m just voicing my opinion, I personally think sci-fi is subjective to a person’s taste.
besides…..the millenium falcon, with its faster than light-speed capability & all her prowess were no match for the WHAT? > oh yeah…the tractor beam. The enterprise would be toast against the death star, but you pit good ol’ NCC-1701 against the star destroyer, now THAT may be interesting! THEN, again….the enterprise has a tough time against a bird of prey, even another star ship (Reliant) so a star destroyer MAY prove to be a bit of a challenge after all.
All I can say is you are all !#%&*! dorks! You are debating a fantasy world! How can one be better than another? Rack me! OUT!
@Murdoc, that’s why Star Wars is a Space Opera and not Science Fiction.
Of course the Deathstar would destroy the Enterprise. It blows up entire planets, for Pete’s sake.
Ok, let the war begin: As far as i now Enterprise can’t enter lower orbit, especially not that low. Yovager could do it but it’s a much smaller vessel. And why is the Enterprise not moving? The Death Star wouldn’t stand a chance against a moving starfleet ship. They could easily outflank it and destroy it. Any more questions? ;-)
yeh the enterprise could outflank the death star sure! , there is no flank its a spherical object!
Plus once the enterprise is within range the death star will just unleash its squadron upon squadron of tie fighters, and bombers ! bye bye enterprise
Empire 1 – Federation 0
they could use planets, asteroids, wormholes or whatever to outflank them. you’ve seen the movies, the death star is pretty slow.
tie fighters? they wouldn’t even scratch the hull of the enterprise.
Remember, the entire point of flying down the trench in A New Hope and flying into the Death Star’s core in RoTJ was that the Death Star couldn’t be destroyed by the entire Rebel fleet. No chance a single Federation vessel could take it out; this is essentially a moon covered in laser turrets with a massive escort, after all.
Maybe the Enterprise had been seized by the Imperial Forces and blown up as part of the propaganda machine, like when the Australian Forces destroyed the North Korean drug boat last year.
and the hangar decks loaded with tie fighters to swarm the enterprise, and the tractor beam…..hmmm…..you sure?
It’s a joke folks, lighten up. No wonder everyone thinks all geeks are uptight losers.
Better comparison would be the enterprise vs. imperial cruiser or destroyer. Not a space station.
You know what I think when I see flamebait stories like this?
“It’s a trap!”
Which one would run Android, that’s what the public really wants to know.
Great Video! Now if only someone would make a video to show all these guys where the vagina is located and a self-help video called, “You’re 41, it’s time to move out of Mom’s basement”.
You mean like this: http://www.amazon.com/40-Year-Old-Virgin-Blu-ray-Steve-Carell/dp/B001CW7ZV2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241812091&sr=8-1
On Blu-Ray, natch.
i found the video funny and creative.
the comments were even funnier though!!!
i don’t really get into either of the shows/movies but i sure got a broken rib or two from laughs over then comments!! keep going :)
At least Star Wars had robots. I loved the new Star Trek movie and one could argue that there were no robots because there weren’t any in the original Star Trek and they were staying true to that theme, but still, it’s kind of hard to deal with. Ok they had Data who is an android, but it’s not like he’s a “Get Out of Having Robots Free” card to completely pass on the subject. It’s like that comedian said about Captain Picard in Start TNG, “What, it’s centuries into the future and there’s still no cure for baldness???”.
Holy cow this entire page is retarded.
I’d love to see the two go at each other. A Death Star would easily destroy a Federation Starship, but against the Borg, that would be a great fight. Then think, Jedi-Borg. I have just blasphemed against all of geekdom.
Jedi-Borg = Darth Vader
Just sayin.
But can you get Penne ala Arabiatta on the Enterprise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo
i´m sorry i enjoy this but …but before you begin this “war” between technologies you need to establish some sort of time period because obviosuly there is more to choose from in Star trek than in Star Wars so this would make it a “little” more fair.
but just for the record Star Trek is better. : )
OR if you put it like that, Do you think Han Solo can whoop kirks ass? I think Chewbacca can take on Worf ANYDAY, LOL!!!
Would you guys stop it, you’re embarrassing me! :P
Ya but, if you really think of it, if the enterprise defeated the death star, (and it would) just like any Borg cube, a monkey would say, “Who are you guys”, Kirk would say: “Where the star fox”, that being followed by: “you’ll never defeat Androssssssssss!”
We all know Kirk would say at the last moment, “Do a barrel roll”, then the Enterprise would do a barrel roll at the last moment.
Wait. This doesn’t make sense. Start wars was the a long time ago and star trek is the future so it wouldn’t work. Now if you had “Space1999″ vs “Quark”, that’d be something. Sure “Quark” was a garbage ship, but Richard Benjamin could totally kick Martin Landau’s azz in a “yo mama” fight.
Any more comments, you ask?
You bet, you all need to get a life! It’s all bloody fiction for crying out loud!
But, If you have ever seen the movie, HOT ROD, you’d know the answer to the ultimate question: Who would win in a fight between a grilled cheese sandwich and a taco. The apparently obvious choices are 2. In a fair fight, the grilled cheese would win. If it was prison rules, the taco would win. Check out the movie HOT ROD sometime, it’s hilarious! THAT is what this discussion reminds me of!!!
first off why would the USS enterprise want to be by its self that close to the ground in a supposed “Imperial Controlled” area anyways? if it was some kind of attack against imperial forces they would at least be moving and have established the problem of the huge weapon pointed directly at them known as the DEATH star.
Program a Photon torpedo to fly into the exhaust port of the death star, and dont tell me it cant be done!. Fire from a distance…one dead space station. All the Enterprise has to do is stay out of the way of the super laser. And I really dont think a capital ship like Enterprise could hover so low in the atmosphere…not without a huge expenditure of power.
And to you ignorant jerk offs for calling us dorks for a piece of culture that we like…go find the nearest building and fling yourself off of it.
I think that the Enterprise would win against the clumsey Death Star. All they need to do is scan for the thermal exaust port and do surgery on a photon torpedo to ain for the two-meter-wide hole and blow the station! Kirk would have found a way, especially if the Death Star was preparing to deatroy Earth!
Its called SCI-Fi retards, wikipedia it. Anything is possible. <_<
Anything?? So in Sci-Fi, can God make a boulder so big he couldn’t lift it?
I love how you call people retards, but you’re the one still leaving comments in a thread from 2 weeks ago.
When was the last time any of you actually touched a girl?
Hey, I am a girl!