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Originally Posted by g99
i know how stupid the tech in Trek is, but Star Wars has its issues too:
2. All aliens have the same tech level. At least Trek does not do this
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Actually, Trek does do this. And in many ways, Trek is worse about it.
As frenat just pointed out whilst I was typing this, in the Star Wars universe, all the alien species are part of one big happy galactic civilization -- so it's not at all surprising that they should have roughly the same technology as one another. It would be as though every alien species in Star Trek was a member of the Federation.
In Star Trek, however, most alien species are supposed to have their own cultures/empires that are completely separate from the Federation. We should expect a lot more variance in the technology level between the various space-faring alien species. Yet, with few exceptions, they all have warp drive, they all have shields, they all have weaponry roughly equal to Federation ship's phasers in power, they all have subspace communications, and they all have transporters.
This was particularly onerous in Star Trek: Voyager. The Voyager was supposed to be in the Delta Quadrant, which had never ever had any contact with the Federation (or the Klingons or the Romulans or any of the other races/empires in the Alpha Quadrant). Yet, the very first alien species they meet has warp drive, shields, weaponry on par with Federation ship's weaponry, and subspace communications. They even respond to hails using the same subspace frequency and modulation protocols that the Voyager does! And yet, we in the audience are supposed to be impressed with how "different" and "backward" their technology is, simply because they lack transporters?! Pah. Pah, I say! PAH!!
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3. The force? Oh come on you complain about the elongating of a ftl drive and you don't complain about the force?
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Touche! :-)
I agree with Voyager. But what would happen if Star Wars had a weekly T.V. show (disreguarding the saturday morning Cartoons)?
We have talked about this before. In trek they ran out of original ideas into the first season of TNG and the end of TOS. So they rehasghed the same scripts and alines of the original series. I tottaly agree with you that the aliens themselves are much more accurate in Star Wars (barring the feasibility of a galactic civ. How do you administer a subject a thousand light years away? By the time you send a mnessage to them, they will be long dead.)
But the ships in Star Trek are alot more like what we would find in the future. Advanced weaponds, and technology. Sure the transporters would never be feasible
ever, but the rest of the technology is feasible.
The Star Wars ships are relatively weak. Most act less like spaceships and large battleships and more like jets. Remember the whole banking in turns thing?
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On another note i think we are hijacking the subject. We probobly should start a new thread.
So how would you bend not only light waves, but every wave from all specturms around your ship?.
One thing i do not understand from Star Trek is why can't you fire when cloaked? If it is a power issue than have passive systems like mines or a rocket. Open up a tube, let go a mine or rocket and send it towards the target. The no fire rule makes no sense to me.