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According to Star Trek, nothing can remain in planetary orbit without engine power. But if that’s the case, then what holds up all those engine-less satellites, space telescopes, and space stations in Earth orbit today? Those are either in moving orbits, or geosynchronous orbit at 22,000 miles; nei...

This is tangentially related to the debate over categorizing Star Trek vs. Star Wars (Sci Fi vs. Fantasy), if you're curious, but I am looking for any good resources on the Scientific Unrealism of Trek, preferrably handy online resources. Now I read Mike's entire page sometime between 2003 and 2005...

books and other literature are canon apart from a few alternate-universe exceptions, as are games insofar as you don't use game mechanics. It would help to preface this discussion with that fact. That way there's really nothing to discuss, since the books contain things that are impossibly more pow...

If by 'realistic' you mean 'consistent', you could just dump all the one-shot, one-episode wonders that were contrivances to create forced plots. Even without ironing out inconsistent weapons and shield strengths, removing the outliers would make it more consistent. I'd be saddened indeed if they w...

By divine intervention/selling your soul to the devil/Q, you've been given the power to re-edit or change the Star Wars saga in order to prove once and for all time and without a shred of doubt in anyone's mind the superiority of Star Wars over Star Trek, even to Trektards like Darkstar. What kind ...

Does this discussion allow claims of SW features or technologies, which have never been demonstrated or claimed in in any movie, or novelization thereof?
Yes or no, please.

In "Wrath of Khan," we see that Trek has about the worst navigation-techology imaginable; basically it seems that a starship simply warps to a star-system, and locates and counts the planets from the most exterior planet-- until it finds the planet-number it's looking for, having no idea ...

Batman wrote:The same way the RIAA charges you for downloading music they cannot possibly prove you did? They blithely assume you used the route, charge you for it and dare you to prove them wrong in a long and costly lawsuit?

The Force DOES have a strong influence over weak minds....

The monopolization/control of "space lanes" in the SW galaxy, seems to counter the notion that hyperdrive allows a ship to travel magnitudes faster than Federation ships. Trucks can go off road or even on the streets, but for the most part everyone uses the highway system for long-distanc...

The idea that the 'spacelanes' are actual physical routes is asinine; I believe the EU explanation for the EU conceit of spacelanes is the Republic-era reliance on pre-calculated jumps. There's no evidence at all that the commonly used routes are more than simply commonly-used routes (or even narro...

In "Wrath of Khan," we see that Trek has about the worst navigation-techology imaginable; basically it seems that a starship simply warps to a star-system, and locates and counts the planets from the most exterior planet-- until it finds the planet-number it's looking for, having no idea w...

The monpolozation/control of "space lanes" in the SW galaxy, seems to counter the notion that hyperdrive allows a ship to travel magnitudes faster than Federation ships. Likewise, when Han Solo was escaping the Star Destroyers in Ep. IV, he had to wait for his computer to plot the course t...

This pertains to the final arbiter of canon on each side, i.e. where the proverbial "buck stops." Canonicity of EU sources, would seem to give this power to everyone who writes a LFL novel or even comic book, giving canonicity to their figures regardless of inconsistency with on-screen mat...

After reading the various discussions/info regarding the Superlaser I had a question which I didn't see considered-- specifically, the lack of actual heating of the planetary mass. The figure of 1E+38J for a planet of 1E+24kg, comes to an average of 1E+14J/kg-- enough to heat the mass by about 30 bi...