Pillar of Autumn vs. Enterprise-D
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:37 pm
So I’ve been having an argument with a member on another website, Cananatra, on the topic of the Pillar of Autumn vs the Enterprise-D. It’s always been pretty obvious in my mind that the E-D is superior, but if you could confirm whether or not his arguments are valid or complete lies, that would be helpful. His arguments are as follows:
“Federation ships can not take collisions, even with their shields up. They are utterly shit at it. Every time, Every single time in the series that a federation ship has been hit by anything, even grazed by another ship, they take horrific damage or even blow up. A 600 ton projectile doing an appreciable fraction of c is going to utterly rape the E-D.”
“The torpedoes may have the kick to do as you suggest, but you haven’t proven they could actually hit because in the series they miss a good 90% of the time against ships sluggishly moving around, movements that UNSC ships exceed. Nor have you proven that the enterprise can survive a strike from the MAC, when we see many times in TNG and DS9 that federation ships shields and armour can not stop such impacts.”
And the actual link is here: http://www.factpile.com/3759-pillar-of- ... ent-294625
“Federation ships can not take collisions, even with their shields up. They are utterly shit at it. Every time, Every single time in the series that a federation ship has been hit by anything, even grazed by another ship, they take horrific damage or even blow up. A 600 ton projectile doing an appreciable fraction of c is going to utterly rape the E-D.”
“The torpedoes may have the kick to do as you suggest, but you haven’t proven they could actually hit because in the series they miss a good 90% of the time against ships sluggishly moving around, movements that UNSC ships exceed. Nor have you proven that the enterprise can survive a strike from the MAC, when we see many times in TNG and DS9 that federation ships shields and armour can not stop such impacts.”
And the actual link is here: http://www.factpile.com/3759-pillar-of- ... ent-294625