this could be fun...
I have to admit I know more about Star Trek than Star Wars, so this is
very likely to be swayed one way ...
firstly on the size of the relative galaxies,
The Hyperdrive According to the good ole starwars.com website once you are in Hyperspace you speed is limitless, so according to this the SW universe could very well be as large as ST, if not even larger.
(btw did you know the millenium falcon was in first contact,
click here ILM rock)
With the use of the Hyperdrive any ship in the SW universe would be able to outrun any ST ship, as long as we are talking about stuff in the TNG/DS9/VOY era. Yep ok there are wormholes and there was that one off in TNG where the enterprise skipped over into another universe but it has yet to be repeated, but thats not to say it won't...
Also when you take into account voyagers meetings with some federation ships from the future they are able to transverse this great distance in an instance, even Janeway (her boring self) at the end of voyager with the bit of new technology from the Klingons (I think) was able to do the same, skip from the Alpha to Delta Quadrant in mere moments and jump back however many years.
So both sides have the ability to jump from one side of the galaxy to the other, Star Trek also seem to have some control over time too, in 30ish years in the future.
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next thing...
In all of these battles of Star Destoryer vs Enterprise you all seem to be forgetting how in a large scale war the federation (and everyone else) puts out large fleets of ships, for instance;
In the dominion war and the re-taking of DS9 from the dominion the federation fleet consists of 600 starships, yet still they are out-numbered by the dominion 2-to-1 (
link wiki is great, so many nerds, so much time :em321: )
So on those numbers alone, and that wasn't nearly the entire fleet of the federation or dominion your looking at a combined fleet of well over ~1500 for the dominion (low estimate not including ships in the gamma) and probably
well over 1000 for the federation, and thats starships, there were also support fighters mixed in there as well, not runabouts but proper single/double person fighters (
clicky the pic I think is from the re-take of DS9)
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As for the amount of people on each type of ship,
There is a combined total (staff, stormtroopers, etc..) of 46,700 people on a Star Destoryer (
linky ) which is waaaaaaaaaay in excess of anything you are ever likely to find on a star trek vessel, maybe even space station.
The Star Destoryers (depending on type) also carry 70+ x-wings, 20 AT-ATs, and 30 AT-STs. Whether they can carry all this at once or are fitted out for special missions I haven't a clue, literally this is all coming from wiki.
On the numbers and size front Star Wars wins hands down, the Star Trek universe doesn't really have anything to compare with the size of these things, they are over a 1 mile long for christs sake...!!! Thinking about it a bit more though, the crew could well be pretty squashed in what with the hanger bays and all, not the comfort of Star Trek.
Having a closer look at the Enterprise E (
linky ) does show some interesting things, firstly its about 1km shorter....but can in a squeeze can hold 12,800 from a normal crew of 855. (Enterprise D can hold 15,000 from a crew of ~1,000)
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Power....
On the source of power for each universe I think Star Trek has a major advantage, firstly from the info on the Star Destoryers we find (at least at the time of the Clone Wars) that the Star Destroyers main reactor could consume up to 40,000 tons of fuel per second!!! Thats a heck of amount of fuel and resources.
Star Trek on the other hand has the warp drive (matter/antimatter reactor) which in theory at least, is able to produce A LOT more energy for no where near the same usage of resources, they also have fusion reactors and can collect fuel from space itself.
As for what powers the death star...no idea...
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Shields and weapons...
no going to comment as there are no numbers to compare against, (that I can find) Star Trek list the power of their shields and weapons but can't seem to find anything for Star Wars.
I will say that both sides have the ability to blow up planets,
Star Wars you have the death star etc...
Star Trek, virtually any starship, in a couple of episodes the enterprise is shown to use its phaser to drill into the mantel and possibly the core, (can't remember) either way, from then all that would be required to blow the planet up would be a few well placed photons, which they are capable of doing. The same goes for Suns.
So, although I think the Star Wars ships have more weapons onboard each ship, I think the Star Trek weapons are more powerful and more accurate, this is a personal opinion, no way to back it up.
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As for land battles, if and when they occur, I think the Star Wars universe would easily have the upper hand here, basically because we've never really seen much of any land vechicles in Star Trek to compare against.
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Bar in mind that this comparsion was focused mostly on comparing Federation to Imperial. The Star Trek universe has many more established factions than Star Wars and that could well be the reason why the imperial and rebel captial ships are so frigging huge compared to Star Trek.
However I haven't taken into account many of the races large ships in Star Trek, namely the
Scimitar which when compared to other ships in Star Trek is a monster.
Anyways, I have far better things to do with my life than continue to rabble on here.