Stewart at SDI wrote:
First the rules;
1. There are so many stupid/contradictory/defects in all the settings that only the best item that you want to use counts. (I.E. if it does something fast there but slow someplace else and you want fast, then it's fast.) There are an infanite number of reasons why they might choose to go slow in the above example. The "contradictions" have reasons, we just do not know why the are.
By this reasoning, the DS9 wormhole means that all Fed ships can cover 70,000 light years in seconds. There are just as often extenuating circumstances for high speeds as low speeds; you are assuming that there can be extenuating circumstances for low speeds but not
for high speeds.
2. If you must choose between a visual and some other source like a book, then the movie/TV show wins.
3. Ignore production values, scale and scope of the story. They muddel the issues and cloud judgement. You can always make it better, bigger or different if you want.
4. Anything that is possable now but seems to "dissapier" in the "future" is still there, it's just so well intigrated that it becomes invisable or there is some "unexplained" need for it to work in some other fasion.
Except that in Trek's case, this is disproven by observation. Numerous sentient robots exist in TOS Trek, yet Data is considered a remarkable phenomenon a century later in TNG.
5. The most likely asumption is the best. Collorary; the simplest solution is the right one. The more convoluted the explination must be the less likely it is the right one.
Star Trek is more advanced than Star Wars.
By this, do you mean "The major Alpha Quadrant power", or do you mean "everything in Star Trek including the Q?" I take it you mean "The major Alpha Quadrant powers".
This fact is based on the following points of logic.
1. Star Trek has demonstraited the following technologies that are not seen in Star Wars, therefore, it is more advanced.
I notice you ignore the technologies Star Wars has which Star Trek does not, such as mass-produced inexpensive sentient droids with modular body parts that can self-seal together, hyperdrive, and lightsabres.
(In the entire history of the world, no technology has ever been compleatly lost) FTL Combat, Faster transit speeds, Transporters, Replicators, Time Travel, E.W./ E.C.M. / E.C.C.M. and Sensors/Scanners that are thousands/millions/ billions of times more accurate/sencitive than their SW counter parts.
Wrong, wrong, right, right, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
FTL combat is a myth; they only fight at warp when both ships are at warp, at similar velocities. "Warp-strafing" involves approaching at warp but dropping to sublight to fire before speeding away at warp again.
Hyperdrive is far faster than warp drive. If you disagree, explain why it took years for Janeway to get home.
Transporters and replicators exist in ST but not in SW. So what?
Time travel is not a technology; it is a trick which they occasionally do, usually with a slingshot effect. Most of the time, there are extenuating circumstances or external forces involved; a hull contaminated with "chroniton particles", an Orb of the Prophets, hitching a ride behind a Borg sphere, etc. And there is ample evidence that they merely jump into parallel timelines when they do this, rather than creating a grandfather paradox and altering the timeline they originated from.
As for the EW/ECM/ECCM, you'd be hard-pressed to beat distortion jammers so powerful that they warp the fabric of spacetime itself, or a galactic star-tracking system which can determine in real-time that the gravitational silhouette of a star tens of thousands of light years away is still present after it has been deleted from the records.
3. Threwout history, the side with the supirior technology won irregardless of the force ratios.
That depends on the type of superiority involved. An advantage in speed, armour, and firepower is much more useful in war than, say, superior food service technologies. Do you believe that Japan's technological prowess would have allowed it to defeat the USSR at the peak of its power?