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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Mike DiCenso » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:36 pm

Praeothmin wrote:The MACO in ENT used grenades, as you can see at 3:11 here...
But I agree we don't see grenades used in DS9 or TNG.
Which just means they're like Stormtroopers, they don't use grenades...
Actually, the Jem'Hadar did use flash bang type grenades to capture Major Kira, Garak, and Damar in "What You Leave Behind". Why they didn't make more use of such highly useful weapons, I can't tell you, but they do have them. Also we do know that photon grenades exist in the Federation arsenals as per "Arena", "Legacy", and "Year of Hell, Part 2".
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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Picard » Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:22 am

Praethomin wrote:But I agree we don't see grenades used in DS9 or TNG.
Actually, we do.

In TNG episode "Legacy" we hear about photon grenades, as we do in DS9 "Homefront". We additionally see smoke grenade being used in DS9 "The Siege".

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Post by StarWarsStarTrek » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:04 pm

Praeothmin wrote:
That is not my figure, that is one figure I found doing your work...
Just as in ST, SW speeds are varied and range from a few thousand c to over a million c, still not 20 times the fastest speeds in ST...
No, unlike in Star Trek, Star Wars G canon hyperdrive speeds are consistently >1 million times the speed of light, and no amount of cherry picking from quasi canon novels will refute that.

Not really, I don't believe the 120 000 LY one, so I'll only use the 10 000 LY size...
Ah, you don't believe it, because...because.

Do the maps really show that Mace did indeed need to travel "hlaf the Galaxy", or was this distance just hyperbole?
How much time elapsed between his departure and his arrival?
Hey, you use a statement Han Solo made in the shock of seeing a planet of billions of people being blown up, so I'll use the statement of a senator who's traveled far further distances than you or me.

No, I'm postulating that Senators, as seen in AotC and TCW, live on Coruscant year long during their tenure in Senate, as shown by Amidala's appartment on Coruscant in AotC...
They only travel when on vacation, so some may take vacations on their homeworld when they have weeks available to them, to account for travelling...
And again, AotC shows Tattoine and Naboo less than a Parsec away, so less than 3.26 LY away from one another, travelled perhaps in less than an hour (28 557c) or more...
Vacations? By your claim, by the time they returned from said vacation, their term would be over!

Remember how Padme went to Naboo to hide from her assassin? Or how she originally arrived on Coruscant? By your logic, her term would be long over by the time she made a one way trip.

Nope, I warned you for making unsupported statements, again, as you often do...
You really want to play this game? That the first option in finding someone not supporting a claim is to ban them, instead of asking them for proof?

So when Breentai says:

...ships that have ranges of no more than a few hundred meters

And provides no sources whatsoever; well, he doesn't even do so after I ask him to, but that's another point, you just happen to not notice?

I apologize if I offended you, I thought the phrasing would convey the joke ("you dishonest debater, you"), so it it seemed disrespectful, I'm sorry...
Oh, I apologize so much for ignoring evidence. Can I get my warning reversed?
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Yes, do indeed...
Those hits are at least a hundred yards away...
They missed the first few shots, the villains hypocritically fail to hit the heroes, and the phasers fail to penetrate rocks. Your point?


What I'm saying is, instead of charging like idiots through the door, they could have fired first using the doorframe as protection, then, once they had cleared the corridor, they could have begun coming in, with a lot less losses...
And Riker and the crew used this in Enterprise, as did the...oh, no.

The MACO in ENT used grenades, as you can see at 3:11 here...
But I agree we don't see grenades used in DS9 or TNG.
Which just means they're like Stormtroopers, they don't use grenades...
They don't even carry grenades, while stormtroopers do. The fact that they did not use them just once could be explained many ways; they didn't equip them due to overconfidence, didn't have time to prep them when being shot at, didn't want to damage the plans or puncture a hole in the hull, etc.
Ok, so you bring in the element of surprise on SW's side, but you conveniently forget it for Picard?
Plus, Picard has beaten tougher opponents than Solo and Farmboy Luke as of ANH...
He's shown in the TNG episode where he's the only crewmember left when people try to steal trilithium that he knows guerilla warfare very well (in "starship mine"), is very athletic, and can kick ass, taking on, at 60, two Klingons, and three Nausicans when he was young...
Again, Stormtroopers are not shown as better than Redshirts...
I don't think you get it. Picard took out an entire ship's crew by himself. This does not speak well of average Star Trek mook competence levels, at all. Especially since Picard was not quickly trapped by a ray shield, like Anakin, Obi Wan and Palpatine were. Or that the warp core was not at all shielded, and that Data could just walk up to it and shoot it.
Not this bullshit again?
Prove it...
The Ewoks, prior the Chewbacca taking over, had destroyed two AT-STs, one crushed between two logs, one tripped over and crushed by rolling logs, and at that point, the Ewoks had only 4 casualties...
The novelizations quite clearly state that the Ewoks were losing:


On Endor, the battle of the bunker continued. Stormtroopers kept irradiating Ewoks with sophisticated weaponry, while the fuzzy little warriors bashed away


Of course not, Klingons are big and strong and know how to fight...
And navy seals are big and strong and know how to fight. I could take out a navy seal if I had a gun. Redshirts cannot take out klingons when they have phasers.

What?
You're trying to clain the cumbersome equipment used to scan the MF on the DS in ANH can track ships in Hyperspace or create massive jamming now?
And once again, you have the unsubstanciated claim of millions of c for SW ships...
Please provide a link as to where this happened. We know that the MF has highly sophisticated ECM, as it was able to jam the communications of an incoming tie fighter.



Prove!
It!
The fact that the Enterprise and the Voyager have been seriously threatened by random boarding parties with random intruders that have no NBC protection, but the redshirts are too stupid to open the airlocks or use an equivalent of blast doors?

The fact that the entire crew of a Romulan ship was taken out by a 60 year old man?
Close combat range is no excuse for consistent hand to hand combat. This is not the 18th century.


My thin 14 year old nephew can lift 30 pound rocks over his head, and I can lift C3PO with 1 finger (see, since you provided no numbers on 3PO's weight, I can claim what I want)...
Ignorance to ignorance. You know as well as me that C3PO is made out of metal, and you know as well as me that he'd have to be lighter than air for your trick to work, and you know as well as me that C3PO is not lighter than air.

You mean in the context of an armored guy getting knocked out by the weak impact of a cheap spear made by a weak creature?
Yup, Strength does indeed have relevance...
Your lack of evidence, however, has none...
Weak impact? The Ewoks merely have to be sufficiently strong to stab a spear, which they are, and they can hurl 30 pound rocks. Your allegedly thin 14 year old nephew could easily take you in a fight if he had a spear.

You see, every example of incompetence on stormtroopers also apply to redshirts:

Bad aim - see my image in previous post
Not taking cover - various hallway shootouts
Not using grenades - Redshirts almost never use anything other than poorly designed phasers

Yet redshirts have all these problems and more:

No armor
No HUD
No NBC protection
No armor support
No heavy firearms
No automatic weapons
No real time combat communication systems
Consistently get defeated by melee combatants

How do you expect a bunch of redshirts to take down an AT-AT? Shooting at its feet? Happening to have a convenient long piece of rope and the means to use it?

How do you think the Seige of A58 would have gone if a single modern machine gun team were there? Or a Star Wars E web emplacement? Or a single droideka? Or a single AAT? Or a single Jedi?

Oh, in that case, there is no evidence R2 is a competent hacker, the fact he hacks in the Empire's systems only means they are weak...
See how easy it is to make unsupported claims?
Except that in both the movies and the EU, R2D2 is the one the heroes rely on to do the hacking. See how I can back up my claims?
Now that is a very good question...
I've always felt she was an idiot for acting the way she did, and it was posited on DITL that the only reason she got her post was because of her father, Admiral Janeway...
So then your unsupported claim that the Voyager was low on warp supplies for some unstated reason is just grasping at straws. You cannot prove this, you cannot explain why, and you don't understand the implications for Federation ship durability this has.
Nope, different context:
Voyager was lost in unknown lands, while all SW travels are in known territory, at least a lot more known than the Delta Quadrant was for Voyager...
After all, didn't the Librarian tell Obi-Wan: "If it's not in the archives, it doesn't exist!"...
She was wrong, but the maps do show that the SW Galaxy is well travelled and well mapped...
Right, and Obi Wan was able to travel to Kamino within a number of hours. This is the only reasonable time frame you could apply, unless if you think that he spent several days inside his cockpit.

Nope, the one figure which you cling to maybe, but not all the examples...
One figure? One figure? In every Star Wars movie, the protagonists, villains and other people consistently cross vast portions in the galaxy casually, often times just to meet up with someone. In Star Trek, warp drives are far slower, meaning that the journey itself is a major part of the plot.

Star Wars has faster hyperdrive speeds because the plot required for the galaxy to be far more interconnected, whereas Star Trek has lower warp speeds because the plot requires for the Enterprise to spend time exploring new lands, not getting anywhere in the galaxy within hours.

Therefore, Star Wars has a massive FTL advantage over Star Trek, and your C canon contradictions don't disprove that; not to mention that said figures are still an order of magnitude or more higher than Star Trek speeds!

Except, that the movie shows us different...
We see the fleet enter Hyperspace after 3PO says that there is a secret entrance "on the other side of the ridge", the one we see far away when they are scoping the place...
Since no one on foot will go fast in the forrest, it could have easily have taken them 3-4 hours to go around the place, meaning the fleet gets out of Hyperspace after 3-4 hours, or around 440 000c...
Still no millions of c...
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Oh please. Are you claiming that a special forces team is going to take 3 to 4 hours to get somewhere within view? Especially when the success of the Rebel Alliance in on the line? Based on your figures, Star Wars ships would take months to cross the galaxy, but this is patently false.

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Praeothmin » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:20 pm

SWST wrote:No, unlike in Star Trek, Star Wars G canon hyperdrive speeds are consistently >1 million times the speed of light, and no amount of cherry picking from quasi canon novels will refute that.
Numbers?
Evidence?
Calculations?
Where are they?
Ah, you don't believe it, because...because.
Because of all the arguments shown in the thread I gave you the link for, the one I suggested you read, which you obviously didn't...
Simply put:
Higher canon points to a very small SW galaxy, barely bigger than the sixe of the Federation...
Hey, you use a statement Han Solo made in the shock of seeing a planet of billions of people being blown up,
Really?
Where do I use this?
But that's not even important, I will accept the "over half the Galaxy away" as soon as you give me some numbers and calculations, such as the size of the Galaxy, backed up by canon info, the time it took Mace to travel, backed up by canon info, and finally the distance Mace had to travel...
Vacations? By your claim, by the time they returned from said vacation, their term would be over!

Remember how Padme went to Naboo to hide from her assassin? Or how she originally arrived on Coruscant? By your logic, her term would be long over by the time she made a one way trip.
Prove it!
With numbers!
That the first option in finding someone not supporting a claim is to ban them, instead of asking them for proof?
Oh no, I requested you to prove over and over and over and over all your bullshit claims and you failed at almost every single opportunity to provide some, just as you are doing right now in this very debate...
But since you never give any evidence, and constantly ignore evidence provided by myself and other posters, is what deserved the warnings and ban...
Oh, I apologize so much for ignoring evidence. Can I get my warning reversed?
Nope, 'cause I did it once, you do it to many times...
They missed the first few shots, the villains hypocritically fail to hit the heroes, and the phasers fail to penetrate rocks. Your point?
You are doing this on purpose, are you not?
The point is Stormtroopers can't even hit at that range, and Redshirts can...
And Riker and the crew used this in Enterprise, as did the...oh, no.
So Riker and crew are just as bad as Stormtroopers, but Sisko and crew did use cover, so they would mop the floor with Stormtroopers...
They don't even carry grenades, while stormtroopers do.
Prove it...
Besides:
Picard" wrote:Actually, we do.

In TNG episode "Legacy" we hear about photon grenades, as we do in DS9 "Homefront". We additionally see smoke grenade being used in DS9 "The Siege".
The fact that they did not use them just once could be explained many ways; they didn't equip them due to overconfidence, didn't have time to prep them when being shot at, didn't want to damage the plans or puncture a hole in the hull, etc.
So, they don't use them for the same reason Redshirts don't use them, then... :)
Picard took out an entire ship's crew by himself.
Funny, I remember Picard taking out the skeletal crew on the bridge, but if you have evidence that he did in fact take out the entire crew, then post it...
The novelizations quite clearly state that the Ewoks were losing:
On Endor, the battle of the bunker continued. Stormtroopers kept irradiating Ewoks with sophisticated weaponry, while the fuzzy little warriors bashed away
Really?
The passage you quote simply states the Stormtroopers fired at the Ewoks who in return bashed them...
Where does it say "and the Ewoks were losing badly"?
And the movie shows us the Ewoks weren't losing...
And navy seals are big and strong and know how to fight. I could take out a navy seal if I had a gun. Redshirts cannot take out klingons when they have phasers.
Prove it!
Please provide a link as to where this happened.
No no no, this is not how it works...
You claimed these sensors can do all these wonderful things, prove it...
The only clue I'm giving you is this:
In ANH, when the MF is captured, and they send a team of Stormtroopers to scan the vessel for hiding crew, the Stormtroopers are seen going in carrying a crate full of scanning equipment...
The fact that the Enterprise and the Voyager have been seriously threatened by random boarding parties with random intruders that have no NBC protection, but the redshirts are too stupid to open the airlocks or use an equivalent of blast doors?
So, in other words, the fact that in ST they use the same tactics, or lack of tactics as in SW means they are incompetent?
So then, Stormtroopers are incompetent?
The fact that the entire crew of a Romulan ship was taken out by a 60 year old man?
Prove it!
Close combat range is no excuse for consistent hand to hand combat. This is not the 18th century.
Did you even look at the video?
Melee was used, and when opponents were down, they were trying to shoot them using their weapons...
And show me an example of Stormtroopers doing better?
Like, for example, why not shoot the Ewoks who are running away, instead of stupidly following them in the woods, on their territory?
You know as well as me that C3PO is made out of metal, and you know as well as me that he'd have to be lighter than air for your trick to work, and you know as well as me that C3PO is not lighter than air.
And you know as well as me that 3-4 Ewoks lifting such a droid doesn't show exceptional strength...
Try again...
Weak impact? The Ewoks merely have to be sufficiently strong to stab a spear, which they are, and they can hurl 30 pound rocks. Your allegedly thin 14 year old nephew could easily take you in a fight if he had a spear.
First, the Ewoks did not stab the STs, they bashed them with the spears...
The spear hits did not have much speed, and if the spear head weighed 2 pounds, those hits would mean nothing if an ST's armor was as good as Warsies try to make it...
And my nephew would indeed take out an ST just as the Ewoks did using the same weapons with the same technique...
Plus, they didn't throw the rocks as much as they heaved them and let them drop on the ST's heads...
poorly designed phasers
Prove it!
How do you expect a bunch of redshirts to take down an AT-AT? Shooting at its feet? Happening to have a convenient long piece of rope and the means to use it?
Easily...
They set their Phasers at level 16, fire at its feet, dig a hole and let it fall down...
Or set their Phasers at level 16, and fire directly at the cabin...
How do you think the Seige of A58 would have gone if a single modern machine gun team were there
The same way the attack on the Tantive IV if the Rebels had had a modern machine gun, or the attack on Endor if the Rebels had had a machine gun...
Except that in both the movies and the EU, R2D2 is the one the heroes rely on to do the hacking. See how I can back up my claims?
And in TNG, Data was the one who usually did the hacking, and he had trouble out-hacking Wesley...
See how I back mine?
So then your unsupported claim that the Voyager was low on warp supplies for some unstated reason is just grasping at straws.
Actually, Voyager did reduce replicator usage and Janeway did allow her personal dining room to become a galley because they were low on energy...
So the energy shortage is real, and talked about in the show...
Plus all the other reasons explained many times which I won't repeat again...
Right, and Obi Wan was able to travel to Kamino within a number of hours. This is the only reasonable time frame you could apply, unless if you think that he spent several days inside his cockpit.
How many hours?
Do these ships have waste recycling?
He could have flown for 24 hours for all we know, even have slept in his cockpit...
Therefore, Star Wars has a massive FTL advantage over Star Trek, and your C canon contradictions don't disprove that; not to mention that said figures are still an order of magnitude or more higher than Star Trek speeds!
Which you've again failed to prove...
Oh please. Are you claiming that a special forces team is going to take 3 to 4 hours to get somewhere within view?
Yes?
If the objective is many kilometers away, yes, they can...
Mount Fuji is visible from the center of Tokyo, yet no one can walk there in a couple of hours...

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by StarWarsStarTrek » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:59 pm

Praeothmin wrote:
Numbers?
Evidence?
Calculations?
Where are they?
I showed you one in relation to ROTJ.

Also, Darth Maul traveled from Coruscant to Tatooine while the protagonists are eating lunch. By dusk, Maul arrives, well before the podrace.

So we have Maul traveling to the outer rim from the core in the course of around 6 to 12 hours.
Because of all the arguments shown in the thread I gave you the link for, the one I suggested you read, which you obviously didn't...
Simply put:
Higher canon points to a very small SW galaxy, barely bigger than the sixe of the Federation...
You mean the modest sized galaxy quote? Even if you take Vader's offhand musing as fact, and modest to mean in comparison to galaxies as a whole instead of, for example, the galaxies within the Star Wars cluster, that would be a size of 10,000 to 30,000 LY.

Really?
Where do I use this?
I was using 'you' in a plural form.
But that's not even important, I will accept the "over half the Galaxy away" as soon as you give me some numbers and calculations, such as the size of the Galaxy, backed up by canon info, the time it took Mace to travel, backed up by canon info, and finally the distance Mace had to travel...
The example was used to debunk your 20,000 C figure, in which Mace Windu would have spent months or years traveling to Geonosis.

Prove it!
With numbers!
To make a trip from Naboo to Coruscant like in the beginning of AOTC back to Naboo to Geonosis back to Coruscant would, even if we use a 10,000 LY figure, be around 8000 light years. By your 20,000 C figure, it would take several months. Then you factor in the fact that Padme consistently traveled in TCW, or quickly traveled to Mustafar in ROTS within the time it takes for Anakin to kill a bunch of separatists, and you get that Padme spent a long amount of time just traveling, far too long to make sense within the plot.

Oh no, I requested you to prove over and over and over and over all your bullshit claims and you failed at almost every single opportunity to provide some, just as you are doing right now in this very debate...
But since you never give any evidence, and constantly ignore evidence provided by myself and other posters, is what deserved the warnings and ban...
Please go look at my compilation in the warning tally.
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Nope, 'cause I did it once, you do it to many times...
Oh, how sad.

You are doing this on purpose, are you not?
The point is Stormtroopers can't even hit at that range, and Redshirts can...
The main characters can, especially Sisko, who is obviously more competent than your typical redshirt. Meanwhile, Han Solo, Luke and Leia can hit from such ranges, so what's your point?

Additionally, what's your justification for the phasers failing to penetrate rocks?

So Riker and crew are just as bad as Stormtroopers, but Sisko and crew did use cover, so they would mop the floor with Stormtroopers...
Riker is just as...but redshirts aren't...but Riker is wearing a...ah.
Prove it...
The EU consistently supports the existence of grenades that are used by stormtroopers.

The movies do not contradict this.
Besides:
Picard" wrote:Actually, we do.

In TNG episode "Legacy" we hear about photon grenades, as we do in DS9 "Homefront". We additionally see smoke grenade being used in DS9 "The Siege".
But do we ever see or hear about them being used ever again? Stormtroopers and other soldiers are written using grenades plenty of times in the EU, and the movies do not contradict this.
So, they don't use them for the same reason Redshirts don't use them, then... :)
You mean the fact that the redshirts aren't even seen with enough poaches to carry around grenades?
Funny, I remember Picard taking out the skeletal crew on the bridge, but if you have evidence that he did in fact take out the entire crew, then post it...
Because the entire crew did not come rushing in to capture Picard, or to stop Data from blowing up their ship?
Really?
The passage you quote simply states the Stormtroopers fired at the Ewoks who in return bashed them...
Where does it say "and the Ewoks were losing badly"?
And the movie shows us the Ewoks weren't losing...
The movies clearly show montages of the Ewoks retreating in the onslaught of AT-STs, yet after Chewbacca hijhacks an AT-ST the tide is clearly shown to turn. It's quite obvious that the order is Ewoks winning with surprise -> stormtroopers winning with AT-STs -> Chewbacca stealing AT-ST -> Ewoks winning again

The book mentions the stormtroopers irradiating; that's a pretty strong word, the Ewoks.
Prove it!
What? That I could take a navy seal if I had a gun, or that redshirts have been beaten by klingons?

No no no, this is not how it works...
You claimed these sensors can do all these wonderful things, prove it...
The only clue I'm giving you is this:
In ANH, when the MF is captured, and they send a team of Stormtroopers to scan the vessel for hiding crew, the Stormtroopers are seen going in carrying a crate full of scanning equipment...
In the novelizations, Han mentions that there is no accurate way to track a ship through hyperspace. However, he states that he knows tricks to thwart detection attempts, meaning that sensors can indeed track ships through hyperspace, just not accurately.

Obi Wan throws a tracking beacon on Slave 1, and follows it numerous light years.
So, in other words, the fact that in ST they use the same tactics, or lack of tactics as in SW means they are incompetent?
So then, Stormtroopers are incompetent?
Did I claim that stormtroopers are competent? They merely need to be more competent than redshirts, which they are.

Prove it!
It's either that, or the crew did not care about their leader being in a mortal fight to the death, or Data going to blow up their ship.

Did you even look at the video?
Melee was used, and when opponents were down, they were trying to shoot them using their weapons...
And show me an example of Stormtroopers doing better?
Like, for example, why not shoot the Ewoks who are running away, instead of stupidly following them in the woods, on their territory?
No, Jem Hadar were seen charging Sisko with their weapons instead of just shooting him. The stormtroopers followed the Ewoks into the woods because they could not get a clear shot otherwise.

And you know as well as me that 3-4 Ewoks lifting such a droid doesn't show exceptional strength...
Try again...
Oh it does. Lifting a man is not easy; lifting a metal droid the size of a man is even harder.

First, the Ewoks did not stab the STs, they bashed them with the spears...
The spear hits did not have much speed, and if the spear head weighed 2 pounds, those hits would mean nothing if an ST's armor was as good as Warsies try to make it...
And my nephew would indeed take out an ST just as the Ewoks did using the same weapons with the same technique...
Plus, they didn't throw the rocks as much as they heaved them and let them drop on the ST's heads...
You honestly think that a 30 pound rock is not harmful by sheer momentum? Or a 2 pound stick being bashed? Do you realize that super tough armor is not going to stop conservation of momentum?

Prove it!
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Easily...
They set their Phasers at level 16, fire at its feet, dig a hole and let it fall down...
Or set their Phasers at level 16, and fire directly at the cabin...
You know, that level of competence and versatility would really have come in handy if they were to just blow through and vaporize the cover of their enemies.

Not to mention that you haven't explained why a full powered phaser was merely enough to vaporize an adult female.

The same way the attack on the Tantive IV if the Rebels had had a modern machine gun, or the attack on Endor if the Rebels had had a machine gun...
Tantive IV - modern machine guns would be ineffective against stormtrooper armor. The Rebels were trying to pretend to be a diplomatic vessel, and having a machine gun aboard would not be easy to rationalize.

Endor - are you serious? The Rebels were surrounded by men several times their number and AT-STs. The nature of the battle made machine guns clumsy in their use.

And in TNG, Data was the one who usually did the hacking, and he had trouble out-hacking Wesley...
See how I back mine?
Source, please.

Actually, Voyager did reduce replicator usage and Janeway did allow her personal dining room to become a galley because they were low on energy...
So the energy shortage is real, and talked about in the show...
Plus all the other reasons explained many times which I won't repeat again...
Oh, her dining room was reduced to a galley! Surely that would be a major energy saver in a ship starting with e18 joules per second output.

How many hours?
Do these ships have waste recycling?
He could have flown for 24 hours for all we know, even have slept in his cockpit...
24 hours still contradicts your point.

Which you've again failed to prove...
Let me get this straight:

If Star Wars hyperdrive speeds were no faster than warp drive, Obi Wan spent a year in his cockpit to Kamino, meaning that the trip to Kamino was elapsed over a year. This would mean that every time a character travels to some obscure planet for the plot, a year or two elapses, and that each movie took place individually over the course of several years, meaning that Obi Wan was an old man by ROTS or even AOTC.

Do you believe this? If yes, then...and don't try and ask for proof again, because I have provided it: 9000 C would mean that traveling across a low end size SW galaxy would take over a year. If no, then concede the point.

Yes?
If the objective is many kilometers away, yes, they can...
Mount Fuji is visible from the center of Tokyo, yet no one can walk there in a couple of hours...
Mount Funji is a mountain. Is that the best rationalization you've got?

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Trinoya » Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:12 pm

SWST you do know you posted a picture of a phaser that is no longer in use by the UFP by the time of the dominion war, right? It proves that they got rid of that design in favor of a superior one, not that they are all poorly designed.

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Post by Admiral Breetai » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:31 am

it's also worth noting that crummy phaser was able to completely vaporize an aqueduct that went on for miles and snaked up a mountain..in terms of personal fire power

wide angling that shit could probably take out dozens of troopers and mess up the walkers if not out right blast them apart

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Picard » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:37 am

And lets not forget that hand phasers are aimed by simply looking at target... otherwise, how you explain:
a) design
b) off-axis fire capability
c) fact that phasers mostly (or always) fire on targets characters are looking at

See, fact that you do not need to do all of aiming by yourself provides quite of an advantage when you are surprised by the enemy, even if at expense of range... and it is one feature all TNG+ hand phasers have.

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Praeothmin » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:47 pm

I'm done wasting my time with you, SWST...
All your proof is, again, full of nothing, of unsupported assertions, and pure bullshit in some cases...

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Picard » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:48 pm

Not to mention that you haven't explained why a full powered phaser was merely enough to vaporize an adult female.
Setting 16 is "vaporization", that is, the wierd "eating" effect. But we know phasers can heat stones, and few power cells was enough to allow shuttle achieve orbit.

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by StarWarsStarTrek » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:31 pm

Praeothmin wrote:I'm done wasting my time with you, SWST...
All your proof is, again, full of nothing, of unsupported assertions, and pure bullshit in some cases...
Is this your best way of dropping out of a thread? "All my proof is, again, full of nothing" is an unsupported claim. I can just do that do any assertion you make. So you accuse me of making bad evidence, yet then provide NO evidence for the very accusation you make?

You actually think that a 20,000 C figure is a reasonable figure for canon hyperdrive speeds, when we see Darth Maul travel from Coruscant to Tatooine in 24 hours. You're evading.

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Admiral Breetai » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:38 am

I'm not exactly sure what the empire is gonna do against the combined industrial might of the Federation and the Dominion...

both sides being able to field tens of thousands of vessels with one side currently enjoying a huge technological advantage and the other with fleet killers that make an ISD look like a damn joke

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by StarWarsStarTrek » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:52 pm

Admiral Breetai wrote:I'm not exactly sure what the empire is gonna do against the combined industrial might of the Federation and the Dominion...

both sides being able to field tens of thousands of vessels with one side currently enjoying a huge technological advantage and the other with fleet killers that make an ISD look like a damn joke
industrial might?

So this:

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Is outmatched by this:


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In industrial might?

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by Admiral Breetai » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:06 pm

StarWarsStarTrek wrote:
industrial might?

So this:

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Is outmatched by this:


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In industrial might?
no but being able to go and make this

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and oh lots of these casually

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shits on the death star and the GE as far as the films are concerned

also The Dominion being able to casually revive the Cardassian economy bringing it up from a complete collapse to where there had been years prior famine and disease on many worlds..into a major power...inside of several months absolutely shits on anything we've seen from the GE in the movies

or how y'know doing the same thing to Bajor despite being stranded and fighting hard

or y'know three shipyards producing between thirty..and a hundred thousand ships

I mean y'know it isn't like these things have been pointed out to you before and you away

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Re: The UFP and The Dominion Vs the GE

Post by StarWarsStarTrek » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:26 pm

Admiral Breetai wrote:
no but being able to go and make this

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and oh lots of these casually

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shits on the death star and the GE as far as the films are concerned
Please show an example of The Federation by itself creating a star using its own technology.
also The Dominion being able to casually revive the Cardassian economy bringing it up from a complete collapse to where there had been years prior famine and disease on many worlds..into a major power...inside of several months absolutely shits on anything we've seen from the GE in the movies
Actually, the Cardassian economy at its height produced 10,000s of thousands of ships in full war mobilization over several years...meaning that it amounts to less than 0.000001% of the Empire's industrial capacity, and by extension, economic might. We know from the G canon film-novel of ROTS that there are quadrillions of people in the Galactic Republic.

or how y'know doing the same thing to Bajor despite being stranded and fighting hard

or y'know three shipyards producing between thirty..and a hundred thousand ships
You mean thirty. And thirty ships of that size would amount to less than a millionth of the mass of the Death Star, which was constructed in the outer rim in secret.
I mean y'know it isn't like these things have been pointed out to you before and you away
Because you have not explained why the ship production rates of the Federation amounts to less than 0.00001% the mass production needed to built the Death Star.

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