Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Tampere, Finland
Posts: 12

I know almost nothing about Star Trek so I
cannot tell you my opinions.
Bringin Star Trek
and Star Wars into this topic was unexpected.
But...
This topic turned interesting after all!
you seem to be quite a Star Trek fanatic Kill...

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I want Freespace 3
and Babylon Project mod
for FS2!

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: scotland
Posts: 1205

acaully i like all sci fi but star trek was first - and its fairly obvious that star trek tech is well in advnace of whats in freespace

star wars is debatle - they dont have transporters but thats basically it but to compinsate they have death stars - adn thats a major compensation

b5 is completely different at least at the begining humans are at the low end of tech and had nearly been exterminated - but its a great show - i just wish that jms had known sooner that season 5 was a go so he could extend the shadow war - put part of the civil war into season 5 - would have made season 5 better - i dont know i didn't like season 5 for some reason

anyway nevermind sci fi cool all of it

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, WA, United States
Posts: 1290

To be honest, I think FS2 fighters would have the upperhand against spacecraft of similar specs in the ISA/SW/ST universes. The FS2 fighters have afterburners, shields, and very powerful missiles and guns (can you say Harpoons and Kaysers?).

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland
Posts: 3194

Not to forget Tornados and Trebuchets and of course Subachs and Prometheus.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

You can't really beat Trek ships. The writers are always coming up with new treknobabble that justifies a way for a small ship to destroy planets with torps.

It's such a shame the series were so crap.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Sheffield UK
Posts: 1913

Well i have experience with b5 star trek and freespace

star trek can destroy anyhthing, am sorry but its tech is far in advance of the others (they have shields on cap ships for christs sake) they can take down bombers from huge ranges.....im sorry but nothing could beat a star trek ship (if it was of comparable size to the other universes)

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 22

hehe
Jabu got it to the point!

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Posts: 95

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland
Posts: 3194

What!?! They can do that?!?!

WTF they haven't done it then?!?!

For god's sake, they should do that for great justice!

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 22

rofl

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland, beyond the Rim
Posts: 164

Jabu, did you mean that thay simply turn the elctric charges reversal? That means they only make anti-matter of normal... That's not a big problem, as long as there is no ("normal")matter anywhere nearby, it would cause a VERY large flash of bright white light with huge amounts of gamma radiation in it. Next second we'll have a universe that consists of subatomic particles (protons, neutrons and their anti-matter companions, maybe even some short-aged mesons) and high-energy photons. There's only one very, very large but: we humans have managed so far to produce only single anti-hydrogen and anti-helium atoms, using horrible amounts of energy. Even though we'd put all ST universe ships' energy resources together they wouldn't have the energy for that.

My God what a piece of perfect bogus... I guess I'm now worth my name. Even though this might have a hint of truth. Don't die of boredom while you read this
Might be too late now... This is in the end of message

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Humans...
Yes. They are the key.

-Delenn and Kosh, Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Yes, a foolish key... But who cares?

[This message has been edited by Kurare (edited 03-18-2001).]

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Z'Ha'Dum
Posts: 18

Your forgetting the unlimited power of the mighthy scriptwriters. They're like Q's. They're omnipotent. And they can make others omnipotent, too.

But, antimatter isn't all that bad. I mean if all the universe was made of antimatter, we would be calling it normal, and normal matter antimatter.

When comparing ST with something else, you have to first translate it (ie forget all the babble and script anomalies and face the fact that they never really get anything done except through tricks, no matter who the enemy is).

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"There is only chaos and evolution!"
"You will fight, because we tell you to fight!"

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: scotland
Posts: 1205

excuse me but they had a very brutal little war with the dominion - oh be reasonable the culture is probally about the most advanced tech ever written about although they wouldn't do so well against Q

anyway nevermind - i've met iain m banks - lives about 30 miles from here or used too might have moved now it was several years ago

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

Star Trek would probably beat anything. Even Culture

All they have to do is depolarise the negatively charged antimatter-emitter and run the plasmastream through a magnetic-graviton field, polarising the positive ions into negative ions, thus destroying the universe.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

Umm... you DO realise I was just being sarcastic?

The series are so full of treknobabblecrap and "particle-of-the-week" stuff... and I don't really see what the Dominion has to do with this debate...

Well anyway... I'm bored with this subject. Let's leave Star Trek altogether and focus on something else, okay?

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