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I’ve been flying spaceships for as long as I can remember. At least since I was 8 years old. No…not literally…but Legos, videos games and more. I remember back to this PC game called Freespace. Did you ever play it? You were a fighter/bomber and you would have to help take down capitol ships as well as other enemy fighters. It was a good time. So this got me to thinking outside the boxes and I started to wonder, who would win in an all out battle between Star Trek and Star Wars? That is, all Star Trek factions VS. All Star Wars factions, including those “big Corellian ships”.

Which universe has the best ships? Who do you think would win in an all out war with each other?

Vote and post below.

Star Trek VS. Star Wars Ships. Who Would Win in an All VS. All?
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@benoitt ,

BUT WHAT ABOUT TURBO LASERS?​

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One only has to look at the size comparison to have your answer. Imagine the enterprise trying to defend against even one wing of X-fighters. Worst case, just ram the Enterprise with a Battle Cruiser.

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Star Trek has Captain/admiral Kirk enough said, but add in Picard, Data and Janeway and pfffffttt forget about it

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Really depends how deep you want to go with it but my money is on Star Wars.

Don’t get me wrong Star Trek would put up a fight especially the Romulans and Klingons, but Star Fleet doesn’t have real war ships. It is hard to say for sure because Star Trek has so many one off “baddie of the week” factions and never put much emphasis on star fighter combat except as set dressing for a handful of “Dominion War” battles. Borg Cube v Death Star or Exegol class SD would be fun to watch.

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Star Trek ships were much smaller than the Empire / First Order ships, so I would deduce the smaller ships would be more manuverable and harder to hit.

If you include the fighters (which the Empire/First Order and Resistance had) these would be formidable against the Star Trek ships, bringing the size issue back to the Star Wars side.

However, the Star Trek universe was on of exploration and not domination, so the Star Wars universe was always in conflict and technology was geared toward war, not peaceful co-existance.

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When I consider the beating that the borg took from starfleet on more than one occasion it makes me more apt to think that if nothing else the ingenuity and flexibility of starfleet would help it succeed. I asked my self if I thought the empire could beat the borg and I’d have to say the empire would be quickly and completely assimilated so…

Makes me wonder if the borg was partially made up of the empire at the time when star feet gave them their butt whooping

also makes me wonder if they would have made c3po partially organic like they did to Data…

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“Lasers!? Lasers can’t even penetrate our navigational shields, don’t they know that?”

Start with telemetry: Star Wars style telemetry systems can’t even detect a couple of runaway droids in an escape pod, while Star Trek sensors can locate individual life forms on a planet from a distance. Jeez, does anyone remember that you can hide from a Star Destroyer by simply PARKING ON IT? Then you have long range scans, which some Trek episodes remark that this is as far as 1 parsec, which is over 3 light years away, with other sources claiming max sensor range up to 17 light years. I’ve never seen Star Wars sensor ranges documented at more than tens of thousands of kilometers.

Trek ships will just lob photon torpedoes (which travel at warp speed) at the Star Wars ships from so far away that they won’t even know what hit 'em. Or Romulan plasma torpedoes. Or Borg gravimetric torpedoes. Whichever one. Boom, gone are those star destroyers. Even the starfleet PHASERS have listed range of something like 300,000 KM which again, will hit the Star Wars ships from outside their sensor range.

And THEN you have the multiple factions in Trek that have ships with cloaking, something which is only described as one-off “experimental” tech in Star Wars. Cloak their way close in runabouts, transport tactical teams onto the bridge or engine room, and cloak away. Or just transport photon torpedoes onto the enemy ships since shields in Star Wars suck and probably wouldn’t even stop Trek transporters.

Another example of the difference in tech: “planet killer” weapons in Star Wars are a “huge deal”. The fact that the Death Star or Starkiller Base is out there and can destroy a planet is treated as a rare and serious threat and often the plot revolved around taking out these weapons. In Star Wars, “planet killers” are the size of a moon or a whole planet, and a HUGE expenditure in resources. Star Trek has a whole list of weapons that can take out a planet or at least make it uninhabitable, from trilithium warheads, the genesis device, the Species 8742 planet-killer weapons from Voyager, the Xindi weapon-ships, the gravimetric-photon torpedoes (also from Voyager), that are all readily reproducible, ship-mountable and transportable.

Yeah, I enjoy Star Wars as much as the next nerd. But if there were a fight between the two, it’s so obviously a curb-stomp battle in favor of the Trek factions that it wouldn’t even be that fun to watch.

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I honestly don’t know much about the Star Trek universe and its ships. I love the different ships/vehicles in the Star Wars universe, so that’s where my vote lies.

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Which ever one Chuck Norris is piloting.

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While the weaponry itself makes for a good comparison and an easy win for Star Trek, also look at the tech.

Transporters.

Star Wars has no shield tech capable of blocking them. So what do you suppose happens when the Star Wars crew and whatever other vital machinery gets beamed out of the ship into open space?

Or…instead of sending a torpedo down an exhaust port, use the transporter to beam the torpedo in.

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I dunno, if the Star Wars ships are as accurate as Storm Troopers’ shooting, then Star Trek will win in a walk.

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I think small craft maneuverability is the only area where Star Wars ships are superior. But in every contest you can devise, beaming a Star Wars pilot right out of his cockpit eliminates any threat imaginable.

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To be fair to Star Wars, Federation star ship sensors are often fooled by ships traveling in parallel with themselves. They almost always leave a newb ensign in charge of interpreting if it’s a threat. And regardless of the superiority of the Star Trek shields, they don’t seem to prevent space born entities from coming right up and penetrating the hull. So tech vs tech, Star Trek all the way. But if the Force were allowed to be brought into this, it’s just as lopsided the other way. Star Trek would need the Cisco and Wesley Crusher to step way up.

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Yeah, I intentionally left out any discussion of “the force” as it’s just such a wild card.

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Imperial I class star destroyer has 60 turbolasers, 60 ion cannons.

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I’d have to say Star Wars. From what I’ve seen from most of the ships in Star Trek have torpedoes with one or two guns. Just one Star Destroyer or Cruiser with multiple cannons would take out Star Trek ships fairly quickly. That’s not counting the individual fighters that would surely overwhelm their shields, leaving them vulnerable for capital ships.

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Does anyone recall the Death Star?

But there is a flaw in the system you say! Good luck getting the Enterprise down the trench to put a photon torpedo in the exhaust port.

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I’m putting my money on the Star Trek ships because, as the OP says, you have to consider all factions. Now, to my knowledge, I don’t recall any Star Wars ships having any prominent use of cloaking technology like the Klingon and Romulan ships do. Heck there was even a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode about a secret Federation project that violated a peace treaty with the Romulan Empire which involved a device that could not only cloak a ship from detection but could change the phase of all the matter on and in the ship to allow it to pass though other solid matter. Even though initial tests of the prototype did not fair well (most of the crew died when the cloak failed in the middle of passing though an asteroid and they fused with it), I’m sure they could work out the bugs if given the opportunity. I mean, imagine not only sneaking up on your enemy but doing so by passing though a planet as if the universe was one giant Doom level and you’d just used the cheat codes for both invisibility and to toggle on the no-clipping mode.

Also, while (some) Star Wars ships are large and imposing and that universe is constantly embroiled in conflict it’s not like the Star Trek universe hasn’t had it’s share of conflict as well. Battles and all-out wars have been fought between the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Empire, and the Cardassian Empire and then there are still other non-Federation worlds that could be either combative with or supporting of any of the above (e.g., the Breen and the Ferengi). On top of that, there were major thematic arcs involving conflicts with factions from completely separate quadrants of the galaxy, most notably the Borg (more on them later) and the Dominion.

Finally (and probably most importantly), does anyone honestly think that even if the Rebel Alliance and the Empire teamed up for the sake of mutual self-interest that they could defeat the Borg?! If we are able to look beyond just the ships and consider the inhabitants of each universe something tells me that even the Jedis’ and Siths’ ability to use of The Force would be no match against the Borg. Furthermore, as soon even just one of the them got assimilated the Borg collective would become aware of The Force and would start to use it themselves. If you think it was bad when they could adapt and create personal shielding against phasers just imagine what they could with access to both sides of The Force. You’d have drones able to leap great distances, employ force lighting to stun their opponents, and then proceed to assimilate them by force-pushing assimilation nano-probes into their bodies (as that’s going to be way more efficient than injecting them using their standard assimilation tubules).

While the Star Wars ships would certainly put up a good fight, the Star Trek ships would just eventually win out due to the broader range of technologies. I’d even go so far to say that even if you leave the Borg out of the equation that the Star Trek ships would still win out in the end.

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