Why? The Borg were systematically destroying defenses on their way. That's a very logical thing to do since the ultimate assimilation of the rest of the Federation and the Alpha quadrant is the goal.
No, it's a very stupid thing to do, and only failed to fail because the Federation engaged the borg cube at point blank range instead of blasting them away from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Hey Mike, honestly, do you have any in universe justification for this fact that works with BVR Trek ranges?
This is blatantly false and is more proof that you have ignored evidence, which would be grounds for a warning. Examples like TNG's "The Wounded" (the USS Phoenix jumps out of a 200,000 km weapons range in under 3 seconds) and TOS' "The Changeling" as well as "Balance of Terror" (the Enterprise stays out of the Romulan BoP's weapons range using her superior maneuverability and speed) disprove this.
Sure, even though you fail to explain to me when this has ever been provided to me before.
Give me scripts, please. Or video.
The first and second examples are not nearly as impressive as you make them out to be and you have not provided any analysis of the visuals of the Falcon's approach to the Death Star to support your case. How fast is the Falcon going? Same thing with the Falcon escaping the second Death Star's destruction in RoTJ.
I could cite a spacebattles.com calculations from a professional photographer explaining that the Death Star's appearance implied a mean velocity of 110 kilometers per second, but all you really need to know is that the Death Star went from being
too tiny to see to filling up the entire screen within minutes. Now the Earth, correct me if I'm wrong, can still be seen from Mars, and estimates to get there using the fastest known propulsion systems is months.
On the other hand, in the highest canon of the SW movies and TCW, almost no one ever makes use of such weapons, the exception so far being Jango Fett in AoTC.
Blatantly false, as has been provided to you multiple times, in RotJ thermonuclear weapons are used, as well as in TPM, RotS novel and various EU sources.
And a single use is enough, the "exception" is still evidence.
In addition to that example and the ST:ENT "Demons" one, the Picard Maneuver from TNG's "The Battle" is another example of a micro-warp jump.
-Mike
Yes, and it was such an ingenous maneuver to them that it got its own name after Picard, rather than his crew questioning why he would use a tactic that only a bunch of idiot writers for a 20th century sci fi series would think of.
Remember that, in most Trek space battles, they line up in
vertical walls and charge at each other in this fashion. Now you can assign whatever derogatory terms you want to Wars tactics, but aside from Coruscant (which, as I have explained 1 million and seven times, was a special occurence) and TCW battles (whose tactics contradict RotJ and are still superior to vertical walls of suicide), Wars battles more closely resemble a modern deep blue shootout rather than a bronze age battle, and even that is being generous to Trek.
Please, Mike, if Trek vessels really are as accurate as you claim they are, explain why in Nemesis, cloaked ships ambushing the Enterprise do it from such a close distance that the Enterprise was hitting them by accident? Or why, in the Dominion battles, both battle lines regularly pass right through one another and come out somewhat intact?
Which we never, ever see used in the highest TCW or movie canon for SW ships when it would be highly advantageous.
Since when? How do you know just from the statement above that the turbolasers being used at Endor weren't continent destroying? Oh, no, you don't. And the Death Star's superlaser (which was not the first, as Mon Monmtha made clear) was certainly continent destroying.
In fact, that's all contradicted by TCW now since we know that 100 megatons of explosive force is considered a huge number in SW.
Brilliant source you cited here. Whatever episode you are referring to is contradicted by the RotJ novel, where thermonuclear fireworks are harmless enough so that Ackbar can stand in front of a window and only feel the ship getting rocked.
We never see shielding that high ever,
Death Star's shielding, which was "rudimentary" according to the same novel (Death Star), deflected fragments the size of mountains presumably moving at at least escape velocity.
And I've stated this piece of evidence multiple times before. Feel free to show me where you have not-ignored it.
especially since the shields of an ISD can be knocked out by an ordinary star as was the case with the Judicator at Nklon in "Heir to the Empire",
Don't get into this. I have much more ammunition that you do in Trek ships getting screwed over by ridiculously low yields of radiation, like when the Enterprise could only last
18 minutes at 250 million kilometers from a pulsar, which, assuming a shield bubble 50 meters off the hull, with a irrelevant margin of error, equates to...
....
...
wait for it...
half a kiloton.
Congratulations.
This is less than a weather shield used by a backwater, half-assed group of working class miners in Star Wars: Gambit (a
Clone Wars novel). Said weather shield stopped a powerful storm powerful enough to disinegrate several Jedi padawans, and for Obi Wan to doubt if even
Yoda could hold it off for long (well, until the shields malfunctioned). After a few on the fly adjustments by Anakin, the shield withstand a week (or so) of constant bombardment from several hundred battle droids.
A few other points...
1. That SW ships can hit stationary targets as small as DS9 - Rebel Dream. ANH (tractor beaming the Falcon). In fact, the ability of ships to aim the right direction for cross galactic hyperdrive runs and drop out within a few hundred kilometers of a planet or even a ship is almost proof enough, since the precision of their instrumentation would have to be to the trillions or quadrillions of digits.
2. That SW ships use their speed tactically - already explained, RotJ
3. That the ANH circumnavigation of Yavin is valid - apparently, some of you feel that, because the imperial display and the Rebel display do not exactly match one another, both can be completely dismissed as inaccurate and the Death Star can be assumed to not have circumnavigated Yavin, even though said event is crucial to the entire plot. The Rebels were on the "far side of the gas giant" according to the dialogue. Take "far side" as 180 degrees [Rebel display] or 150 degrees [Imperial display] , it doesn't matter. We see X wing fighters clearly traveling around the gas giant to meet the Death Star.
