2. Positing an interaction between Star Trek and Star Wars makes hard-core geeks SF geeks resemble that robot from ‘Lost In Space’ with smoke coming out of its head, going “Does not compute . . . Does not compute.”

3. Was the question of who would win, The Thing or The Hulk, ever resolved?

No.

The Empire isn’t stupid enough to use women in combat.

If you look at the (albeit fictitious) technical specifications of Imperial ships and those of Star Fleet ships, the difference is monstrous. Just by numbers alone, only a diehard trekkie would think the Enterprise would win in this scenario. But then, the Star Wars universe is tens of thousands of years old, whereas Star Fleet is only a few centuries of space warfare. So it’s like comparing a Roman trireme to a modern day warship. The level of technology isn’t even in the same realm.

300 million gigawatts is 300 million gigawatts. And that’s assuming the Enterprise is lucky enough to go up against some of the lighter ships in the Old Republic‘s military.

And finally, the Star Wars franchise isn’t made up of french socialist pacifist wussies.

This, FTW!

Talk about S T U P I D.

(And yes, they use “turbolasers” instead of phasers. One: whether lasers or particle beams or Make-Shit-Upitons, 64,000 gigawatts is 64,000 gigawatts. Two: Both canons still call long guns “rifles” despite not having rifled barrels on their weaponry. Again, names mean little, gigawatts mean everything.)

And finally, the Star Wars franchise isn’t made up of french socialist pacifist wussies.

I still say the Defiant could take on every ship in the Star Wars universe at the same time by itself.

1) A Star Destroyer would never have to fight the Enterprise, because if you consider a Star Destroyer to be a fighter jet, then the Enterprise would have roughly the speed of a snail. Imperial ships such as Star Destroyers are known to be able to cross the galaxy in – at most – a couple of months. The Enterprise would require generations at their fastest speeds.

Side note: Star Destroyers do have shields.

2) Star Destroyers are vastly superior in terms of sheer power output, among other characteristics. It has been scientifically calculated that only one or two turbolaser blasts would be necessary to destroy a Enterprise-like ship, shields or no. Heck, it wouldn’t even take a Star Destroyer. Even an Acclamator troop transport (the kind-of Star Destroyer-looking ships in the prequels) or the Slave I (the Fetts’ ship) would be a David vs Goliath scenario.

On the flip side, the Enterprise’s phasers or torpedoes would be about as effective against a Star Destroyer as a tree against an AT-ST… okay, bad example, but you get the idea.

Buttercup and her green “kitty” she loves.

Let’s see – deep gouges on my knee from when the cat fell asleep and started to slide off, then desperately tried to stop the fall; scratches on my shoulder from when the two kittens used me as a launch pad for reaching higher furniture during their game of chase; scratches on my belly, chest and arms from when one of the kitties climbed me like a tree to say hello; bite marks on my toes ’cause I moved ‘em under the blanket and hey, that looked like prey to a no-longer-sleepy kitty – yep, that’s a kitty she’s holding, all right.

No buttercup!! Don’t feed the kitty after midnight!!

I dunno, we were never much treated to the extent of a star destroyer’s capabilities. But the death star’s weapons seem to be vastly more powerful than anything the federation ever dreamed of.

Hell, a little ship like the Defiant could take on a whole fleet from Star Wars.

Death Stars and Star destroyers are the past, The enterprise is the future. They would never meet up. Ok theoretically if Kirk can go back in time and save the whales, he can go back in time to fight the empire. My money is on the Empire in that situation. Dark side of the force plus tech beats tech alone.

But Star trek dilemmas are not usually solved by tech. Usually the are solved by being lucky and clever, to allow for snarky comments about whatever strawman issues are being raised. The empire is not lucky or clever, the death star is the prime evidence of that. That thing is the Washington Generals of Space weapons.

Then again the enterprise gets destroyed about 3/4 of the time in the movies so it is plausible that the empire might get a chance to cause some drama.

Of course Kirk could just give Darth Vader a tribble.