GioAvanti, on 09 January 2013 - 02:31 PM, said:
I don't know about you guys, but wouldn't the Enterprise pretty much beat any spaceship? I mean in canon it can pretty much do everything.... I mean you can have super duper mega shields... and with the right change to a focusing dish and extra power from the engine and you're dead anyway.
And Picard is just a a bad ***.
Star Trek vs. Star Wars isnt even close to remotely fair for Star Trek. They tried to be semi-realistic with the power of their weapons and shields, while Star Wars went Warhammer 40k with it.
http://www.stardestr...iveMinutes.html
That link shows the numbers behind a comparison of a Star Wars: Acclamator troop transport and the Star Trek: Enterprise-D. Some Excerpts:
Acclamator Troop Transport Weapons and Shields:
Light guns:
300 million GW (6 megatons per shot, 24 guns, assume 1 shot every 2 seconds for time-averaged power output rather than peak output)
Heavy guns:
2.4 million megatons (200 gigatons per shot from each turret, 12 turrets)
Shield heat dissipation:
70 trillion GW peak
Enterprise-D Weapons and Shields:
Main phasers:
3.6 GW (5.1 MW per emitter, 200 emitters in the main phaser array, 2 full-sized saucer arrays and 3 smaller roughly half-size arrays on the stardrive section, p.123). Note that phasers appear to have a chain-reaction effect so their raw power output may be deceptively low.
Photon torpedoes:
64 megatons max theoretical (based on 1.5 kg antimatter payload, p.129)
Shield heat dissipation:
3311 GW peak (473 GW per generator x 7 generators, p.138)
Its even more embarassing when you start looking how much more powerful small patrol craft like Boba Fett's Slave 1 are than the Enterprise-D. Thats not even counting the fact that the Federation has what, 1000 planets? The Galactic Empire spans millions. Its not even a fair comparison and its almost sad people keep trying to bring it up lol.