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When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
Reply from evilsoup:
An image depicting the story of the “Judgment of Solomon”, where Solomon is labelled “stargate fandom”, and the two women are labelled “star trek fandom” and “star wars fandom”. The Star Wars lady is standing grumpily with her hands on her hips, while the Star Trek woman gestures with open arms. Between the two of them, on the floor, is a baby in a wicker basket. Solomon sits over them in judgment.
Doesn’t the death star have no shield? It has been years since I watched the movie, but I remember the shield coming from a generator on the planet. So, just move the fight somewhere away from the planet and light them up.
That was the second death star that was still under construction. When fully built they were shielded.
Thanks! How was Luke able to fly along the original death star and launch a torpedo into its exhaust port if it was shielded?
The shielding in star wars is “Ray shielding” I reckon it doesn’t stop ships.
There is a moment in the first movie where they buffet going through the shield of I recall.
That is the problem when talking different sci-fi worlds. It’s all made uo and specific to the rules of that world.
That doesn’t make sense to me. If a ship can fly through a shield, then a torpedo can fly through a shield. They’re both physical objects moving at a fast pace. If it was an issue of specific kinetic energy being rebuffed, then they could just modify the torpedo to slow it down. I guess that’s why I haven’t been a big Star Wars fan since I was a kid. I can’t stop myself from asking these questions, and Star Wars usually doesn’t bother answering them.
That’s fair. Star Wars never really tried to be hard science fiction. It was always a space opera or science fantasy.
Right. A torpedo in space doesn’t have to maintain a minimum speed to stay flying like in air. And actually doesn’t have to be aerodynamic.
That’s true of the second Death Star. I forget whether there was any shield on the first DS or not, or whether there may have ended up being a shield over the second DS if it had been completed.