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Star Wars tech vs. Star Trek tech.
2010-06-26, 6:51 PM #1
Inspired by Flirbinic.
2010-06-26, 6:52 PM #2
Star Wars "tech" is essentially magic with a different vocabulary.
Warhead[97]
2010-06-26, 6:58 PM #3
I don't think this will be the same kind of thread it might have been 5 years ago. :/ sadly
2010-06-26, 7:07 PM #4
**** your Star Treks

I'll be out in less than 12 parsecs
2010-06-26, 7:16 PM #5
Star Trek tech is susceptible to Riker:

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2010-06-26, 7:23 PM #6
By what criteria am I to compare them?
I would prefer Star Trek technology to be real, simply because it is so idealistic and utopian (I'd love to play with a holodeck and have any food on command from a replicator)
The technology of Star Wars, however, makes for a far more interesting fictional universe. This is partly because it /isn't/ utopian.
I'm just a little boy.
2010-06-26, 7:53 PM #7
Originally posted by Wolfy:
Star Trek tech is susceptible to Riker:

<snerp>


can't stop laughing
I'm just a little boy.
2010-06-26, 7:57 PM #8
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
can't stop laughing


It's even better in vuvuzela mode.
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2010-06-26, 8:21 PM #9
The giant dork in me would point out that Picard explained how someone couldn't accidentally do that very thing to a kid in this episode.
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2010-06-26, 9:09 PM #10
Babylon 5

[http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7505/oopsg.gif]


I am aware the main gun on a Victory Class Destroyer cannot destroy a planet
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2010-06-26, 9:36 PM #11
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
Star Trek "tech" is essentially bull**** stated with a good vocabulary.


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2010-06-26, 10:03 PM #12
Haha
Warhead[97]
2010-06-26, 11:09 PM #13
why are we doing this again, it always ends up retarded.
Lets compare fake technologies with eachother!
2010-06-26, 11:41 PM #14
tibby if you feel the need to criticize DAMN NEAR EVERY ****ING THREAD ON THE FORUMS then maybe you should just go someplace else for a while
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2010-06-27, 3:46 AM #15
We should just skip to the inevitable endgame

"yeah, well, the death star"

"nuh-uh the borg could adapt to it and also what if they assimilate a jedi and get the force"

"they can't adapt if the ship is destroyed in one shot, death star still wins"

"Q"

"no fair"
Stuff
2010-06-27, 4:15 AM #16
I don't think this will be the same kind of debate it might have been 20 years ago. :/ sadly

These kinds of debates never really hold any merit to me, anyone (who has some power over the series' main canon) can just make up a hyperstarship (hypercharacter) that can beat like 600 best starships (characters) from the other series and the other "side" will just do the same afterwards, vice versa ad infinitum.

My personal preference is still Star Wars, even though admittedly there are no proper SW equivalents to The Picard Song.
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2010-06-27, 5:39 AM #17
Trek would be better for people, Wars is a lot ****ing cooler.
nope.
2010-06-27, 6:25 AM #18
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
...even though admittedly there are no proper SW equivalents to The Picard Song.


You can't discount these two songs:




RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE MIX!
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2010-06-27, 6:29 AM #19
Star Wars just feels like a lot of clones, light sabers, and huge friggin oversized super duper ooper star destroyers that are each exponentially bigger than the previous one.
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2010-06-27, 7:49 AM #20
Yes, and I'd do anything to have my own working lightsaber.

Imagine walking down the canned food aisle while simultaneously sticking the lightsaber blade 6-inches deep onto a shelf, cutting open all sorts of cans as you passed.
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2010-06-27, 8:24 AM #21
and then someone with a lightsaber blade that isn't red shows up and starts chopping off your limbs for being an *******
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2010-06-27, 9:09 AM #22
Originally posted by kyle90:
"Q"

"no fair"

Heh yeah pretty much this.
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2010-06-27, 9:09 AM #23
Am I the only person that didn't interpret this as a question of which one's technology would outperform the other in combat?
I'm just a little boy.
2010-06-27, 10:00 AM #24
Star Trek never gave me that powerful inspirational feeling and also the obsession of its magic that Star Wars gave me. And besides I sure as hell dont like the idea of Teleportation, having every cell in your molecular structure being totally torn apart by each every fragment and then carried through a radio frequency or other energy on the light spectrum, and being reassembled at the destination platform. Just think what if a glitch just occurred in the computer system, also remember the movie The Fly?
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2010-06-27, 10:07 AM #25
Why, hello, there, Lieutenant Barclay. Welcome to Massassi.
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2010-06-27, 10:09 AM #26
Star Wars is more aesthetically pleasing.
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2010-06-27, 10:10 AM #27
Originally posted by Darth Dan:
Star Trek never gave me that powerful inspirational feeling and also the obsession of its magic that Star Wars gave me. And besides I sure as hell dont like the idea of Teleportation, having every cell in your molecular structure being totally torn apart by each every fragment and then carried through a radio frequency or other energy on the light spectrum, and being reassembled at the destination platform. Just think what if a glitch just occurred in the computer system, also remember the movie The Fly?

Or Star Trek: The Motion Picture. :P
nope.
2010-06-27, 10:36 AM #28
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Or Star Trek: The Motion Picture. :P


Yep another good example! I know I sound like Lt. Barclay and I dont blame him one damn bit.:P
He who controls the spice controls the universe-
2010-06-27, 11:34 AM #29
Pre-2387: Star Wars
Post-2387: Star Trek
2010-06-27, 12:18 PM #30
Originally posted by Wolfy:
You can't discount these two songs:




RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE MIX!


I like how they're attributed to some random internet tag instead of the actual game the songs came from (Force Commander).

Edit: Also, I see yours, and raise you a Gangsta Rap:

2010-06-27, 4:12 PM #31
Might as well compare Star Trek tech with Lord of The Rings if you're going to insist on comparing different genres.
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2010-06-27, 4:16 PM #32
Lord of the Rings is depressing because it takes place on a dying world.
2010-06-27, 4:47 PM #33
Agreed.
2010-06-27, 5:51 PM #34
But it's changing into a new and less interesting world. That's basically what civilization is.
2010-06-27, 5:59 PM #35
Surely that's just globalisation.
nope.
2010-06-27, 6:28 PM #36
No, it's the White Man's World.
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2010-06-27, 7:14 PM #37
1.) Both techs have clear sound in a space setting when firing weapons or powering thrusters.

2.) One uses warp technology for vast distance travel whilst the other calls it hyperspace. Hyperspace is a funny word, but I don't think any star wars writer can define it. Warp is a little better though.

Based off these two, Battlestar Galactica has both beat due to being realistic. To a degree.

I don't know.
2010-06-27, 7:52 PM #38
Originally posted by JM:
But it's changing into a new and less interesting world. That's basically what civilization is.


lol, how is the world we live in today less interesting than the world of the past?
2010-06-27, 8:00 PM #39
Originally posted by JM:
But it's changing into a new and less interesting world. That's basically what civilization is.

Translation: "Get off my lawn!"
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2010-06-27, 8:08 PM #40
At best -_-
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