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Excuse my infernal n00bness, but EGWT?

How about: You're wrong? Matter transfer tech exists... It's used in private magician shows. Source? Subspace tech exists in SW: It's 25,000 years old and predates hyperdrive. Conclusion: SW tech is simply thousands of years more advanced than Trek tech. Plausible conclusion, if the assumption is t...

Is it? I think you've just taken on the burden of proof for yourself. Bullshit. They had subspace technology prior to Xim the Despot ( Han Solo At Star's End ). You misunderstand--you claimed the use of "warp" in various ST drives wasn't significant--that's what I'm questioning. Appeal to...

I really wouldn't mind. Exactly the same lines as before, though. I don't think they'll do it, however. They already altered Shaw's face by removing the eyebrows and changing the eye-color. Never say never. If Lucas is still around when the Next Big Thing in home video formats comes around, I can s...

newsflash: Bungie = Microsoft. I don't really think they would completely cut Bungie out of the creative control and give it to a different part of Microsoft. Unless Bungie has a lot more influence with the parent company as a whole than most bought-out studios do, I somehow doubt it. Expect market...

The technologies developed to exploit those laws turned out so differently. The FTL systems in both settings are essentially the only way that's shown to work--everybody in SW uses hyperdrive, (almost) everybody in ST uses warp drive. So? They simply evolved a different way to travel FTL. In additi...

There could have also been the safety issue. The Emperor had his Dark Jedi running around the galaxy looking for those who had escaped the Purge. If they trained Luke from infancy--during a time where the threat of capture was very real--their last hope (as they so believed it) would've been lost b...

There it is again: "they're both assumed to work." Why are the technologies so different in the first place? In what way are they different? What observation have you made that proves both universes operate on fundamentally different laws of physics? That's your burden of proof. The techn...

There it is again: "they're both assumed to work."

Why are the technologies so different in the first place?

I don't see Microsoft as being some paragon of creative protectionism. It's full of exactly the same kind of LCD mentality that makes Hollywood what it is. If Bungie was running things, it might be different. But it isn't. Expect the worst.

I would submit that the role of a fiction writer is to make those starting places out of whole cloth. "Fiction writer"? This part of the forum doesn't deal with fan fiction, it deals with debates using Suspension of Disbelief! In other words, we assume that they are both real and operate ...

For something that bills itself as "science fiction," Star Trek seems to have a strange contempt for science. The biggest uphill battle I have to face is the pervasive notion that radiation is a green gaseous substance. I'm not even going to start on the DS9 spirituality hogwash.

Okay, nobody likes that. But what if the technology worked differently ? There's a story in this, I'm sure of it. No, how would there be? Look. If the technologies work differently, we have nothing.. NOTHING.. To base our projections on. No discussion can take place because we've got no where to st...

The Jedi, and Yoda in particular, have not had an exemplary decision-making track record. it's a wonder the Republic lasted as long as it did. Excuse me, they lasted for thousands upon thousands of years. Most civilizations don't endure so long. It's hard to represent them as incompetent fuck ups w...

Okay, nobody likes that. But what if the technology worked differently? There's a story in this, I'm sure of it.

Was this observed, or in ICS?

The Jedi, and Yoda in particular, have not had an exemplary decision-making track record. it's a wonder the Republic lasted as long as it did.

Every matchup I've seen here presupposes that the technologies work exactly as they're originally designed. What if that's not a valid assumption? If a ST force found itself in a SW setting, suppose the fundamental physics that made the unique items of Treknology work no longer applied. Assume the r...

I suppose I have peculiar ideas about what constitutes canon. I rate the novelizations of the films (besides ANH, since it was penned by Lucas) as non-canon. Its called Paramount Pictures Canon . :P I'm not going to argue with your view, its up to ypu, although I am curious, how much of the EU have...

It's hard to take any game that has an ablative armor model seriously.

I haven't seen an "all of the above" button yet. I suppose I have peculiar ideas about what constitutes canon. I rate the novelizations of the films (besides ANH, since it was penned by Lucas) as non-canon. What I'd keep: Clone Wars bits of X-Wing/Tie Fighter/XvT/ XWA that weren't obviousl...

Actually, if you can post a link to screencaps or preferably a video clip, we have people here who make calculations on ship durability for fun with information like that. How much headway did the ship make into the asteroid, or did it instantly crumple into a metal ball? I'll work on getting some ...

Executor, as previously mentioned, had suffered a catastrophic navigation system casualty. The question remains open as to whether it was due to a serious lack of design redundancy, or whether there was some other damage not visible on film.

Unfortunately, the only asteroid interaction is showing a crippled ship impacting on one, which isn't helpful. I can't recall an instance of orbital bombardment with beam weapons, only missiles. There was a battle (in the pilot movie) in the outer layers of a gas giant, where the combined thermal ef...

Could the ion cannon be a post-RoTS invention? I can't think of a reason why anything as inefficient as the buzz-droid-tipped missile would be used if a better disabling system already existed.