I'd like to state my own responses:
Jedi Master Spock wrote:- Size is everything.
- Different models mean different ships.
- The ICS is "movie-level" (G) canon.
- It's beam weapons that take advantage of knowing shield frequencies.
- The Borg are smart.
- The Borg are dumb.
- The Rebellion was a negligible affair.
- The Enterprise is not a ship of war.
- Star Wars ships are all bigger than Star Trek ships.
- Star Wars/Trek is promoting a racist agenda!
Why:
1."Bigger" usually does mean scarier... but it's a very weak indicator.
Reality: bigger means easier
target; the key is your bang/buck ratio: the Defiant being a case-in-point, as well as the Death-Star being mostly just a huge reactor (and fusion-bomb waiting to go off).
In "Red Squad" (DS9) we see that the Dominion Leviathan ship is indeed pretty invincible, but it only defeats the Defiant-class ship when the captain goes Ahab on it.
[2]Sometimes people look too hard at details and miss the bigger picture, but we have a lot of cases where different models are used to represent the same ship, let alone the same kind of ship.
[3]Patently not, but a lot of SDN members make this claim while on other forums.
They claim that all EU is G-level canon "except where it precisely contradicts."
No matter
how inconsistent the figs.
[4]Actually, the famous ST: Generations "shield frequency" incident involved torpedoes, not beam weapons.
"Best of Both Worlds Pt. I" did cycle shield-frequencies against the Borg, but it only worked for a short while before they adapted.
[5]The Borg do some really dumb things, but it's not exactly consistent.
The Borg are kind of stupid against those they mistake for their own, but that's about it. Hugh, Locutus, and others who infiltrate or are assimilated into the collective are able to get plenty past them, but the Borg are fairly savvy otherwise.
[6]The Borg do some really clever things, but it's not exactly consistent.
Precisely in Voyager, where 7 is claimed to have a four-digit IQ, and know everything that the entire Borg collective knows. Meanwhile all the other Borg are fairly normal at best when separated from the collective, in "I, Borg" and "Descent" etc.
[7]Obviously not. It brought the Empire down.
Only because they had Jedi help, and one of them was the vice-emperor's kid.... so it came down to an inside-job.
[8]Then why does it go toe to toe with warships up to five times its size?
In DS9, Sisko says that the Defiant is "purely a
warship," which would indicate that the other ships aren't particularly: this would explain why that design was used for long-range exploratory and research-missions, and are designated as "cruisers."
However just because it's not a warship, doesn't mean that it can't be fitted as one, or completely decimate more primitive ones. Consider a 747 airliner mounted with machine-guns, tactical radar and SRM's against a British Man o'war, it could easily destroy it with impunity.
[9]Depends on choice of faction, time, and evidentiary standards how the comparison goes. The Venator) is actually smaller than a D'deridex, for example, and Borg cubes match up to SSDs. And in the SW EU, smaller warships are much more common.
[*]Both franchises tend to reflect the society they are created in. Both also overtly speak against racism while stereotyping alien species heavily.
This constant SW obsession with size, is going to force me to use the "F-word--" the one you can say on television.
Again, it just makes them giant flying targets, since the ships are entirely different in terms of technology. In "The Changeling," we saw that a 1-meter ship like Nomad could pwn the Enterprise through superior technology, and so the Enterprise had vastly superior tech to the Empire, with their Antimatter alone being trillions of times more powerful than fusion.
