In Borg/Empire debate at Space Battles

[Darth Servo]

Big Hairy Mountain Pussy tried that one over at Darkstar's site.

Yep and you had the perfect rebuttal to Big Harry Moron Man.

Let's play along for a minute. As one of the posters at solareclipse.net points out, if the Falcon is that size and behind the 3000m Borg Cube, Han's ship would be up to 600 metres long! Considering that the real Falcon in a little under 40 metres it would mean that everything in Star Wars is 15 times the size of Star Trek. So an Imperator would be 15 miles long. Han Solo would be 27 metres tall. And so on.

Let's assume the ship is in fact the Millenium Falcon and the UFP somehow acquired its services and maybe the ship itself. Let's also assume that the GIANT Falcon is a goof in the special effects, so the ship is <40 metres and Chewbacca isn't 33 metres tall. The very fact that the UFP would include a freighter in a military task force to stop the Borg shows that small SW freighters are comparable to large ST warships. Since no other small craft are used against the Borg during the battle it's unlikely that Han's ship is just another small craft with grafted-on weapons. If the UFP did that with the Falcon, why not other small craft? The Millennium Falcon must be exceptionally powerful for such a small ship.

Spying or acting as a WW2-style "secret raider" is also unlikely since the Falcon is very different in appearance from ST ships and would undoubtedly draw attention to itself just by looking different.

So we have a very small and rather conspicuous ship used in battle against the Borg. No mention of it is made in later ST stories and there's no evidence of other ST ships decked out with weapons similar to the Millennium Falcon, nor are any other such tiny craft used as Big Hairy Mountain Man describes for the reasons described above.

A more likely scenario? How about:

Thanks to some sort of bizarre hiccup in space and time, the Millennium Falcon finds itself transported to space near Earth. This would not be the first time this kind of thing has happened, as E.T. somehow landed on Earth. Clearly he was from the Galaxy Far Far Away since he was so familiar with Yoda that he immediately recognized the Jedi Master's likeness in an Earthling's Halloween costume.

Anyway, Han and Chewie find themselves near Earth. Being pirates with hearts of gold, the smuggler and his Wookiee co-pilot attack the Borg. Han always was a sucker for lost causes. Once the battle is over, Han finds out that there's no financial reward and not a single bitchy but cute Princess to rescue. So he and Chewie head home, leaving the UFP scratching their heads and wondering what the Corellian meant by doing a space run in less than 12 parsecs.

Your post from the thread here.