I've been trying to show SW superiority from one example of SW droids superior to ST but they think that one off AIs like Data (well Data, Lore and B4) shows that ST is superior.Well, this is sort of all over the place.
In terms of computational power, the ST universe is clear ahead, which was the question, not which one has more artificial life. Because as we saw, your average Data or hell, EMH is far more intelligent and knowledgable than just about any droid we've seen. Can C3PO translates millions of languages? Sure. But that's all he's really good for.
Data on the other hand, is a literal walking dictionary and is capable of running multiple things in his head at once, is capable of heavily modifying weapons, is capable of building complicated structures at blurred speed, is capable of performing android-brain surgery with such speeds that an admiral had trouble keeping up with them, putting in a fairly lengthy code, and multiple other things. That's not even metioning his extensive knowledge in science, engineering, philisophy, history, and culture. C3PO in comparison...is a third rate android.
And it's not just Data; Lore was also intelligent, just an evil douche. B-4 was less intelligent, but still capable of sleeper agent methods and has the excuse of being a prototype. Even going farther than that, the EMH was capable of becoming his own person and had the vast majority of Federation medical knowledge in his database. He was also capable of thinking for himself and improvising as tme went on, as well as learning opera and wrote his own book. Compare that to an SW medical droid, which...probably not so much. Or again, C3PO, whose limited to his programming to a very extreme degree.
And of course, the doctor in Voyager was a Mark I and had already been replaced by a Mark II before the series was even over. What did Starfleet do with all the holograms with the most intelligent medical minds ever created? They put them to work shoveling trash.
It's also worth noting that the Federation has had the ability to create intelligent computers for some time--it was done by Doctor Daystrom; he created a computer based off his own mind. While it was a failure due to his own personal problems being reflected by the computer, we clearly see that the capability for intelligence is already in Starfleet technology. Fuck, Wesley accidently created an intelligent hologram because he asked the computer to boost the difficulty setting to Data's level. And that hologram later made another hologram sentient (a bit debatable given that she seemed rather easily led in the episode). And that's not even considering the Voyager episodes with semi-intelligent life.
All doable from the holodeck. So to claim that Trek is incapable of creating sentient life is rather foolhardy. One woman even created intelligent repair droids. It seems to me that those with positronic brains are really the ones that are difficult to create, not so much artificial life. And then again, we see that creating a positronic brain and getting it to work isn't the problem in terms of complexity, but so much as it is that positronic brains have a high degrading problem that means they have a life span ranging about a week; DR. Soong himself ran through a dozen or so of them, according to his android wife.
It's also worth noting that even the most intelligent droids in SW are also rather stupid. Mass produced B1s are as dumb as dirt, B2s aren't much better, Droidkedas are rather battle oriented, Spider droids and their line are just like the last, and Commando Droids theemselves are the only ones that appear remotedly competent and cost a shit load of money--and they're not even close in terms of combat capability or intelligence as Data is either, given that clones can still beat them in hand to hand combat.
Now, back to the terms of computational power, a Galaxy class starship is capable of holding the minds of billions of people; ie, an entire planet's worth while still having enough memory for basic life support and minimal operation (ie, no antimatter breach or some such). We also know that Voyager's shuttle from Threshold (shudder) every centimeter within their sector--which just to tell you, sectors require a day for the Enterprise D to scan and it can scan up to 10 LY at a time--so at least about 10 light years. It's also worth mentioning that said sensors were able to retrieve these scans at not only faster than light velocities, but infinite velocities (or near infinite more probably...somehow...never made much sense). This was then just dumped into Voyager, which already had a shit load of information on it--including a file on Seven and her family--three nobody scientists that vanished decades ago, not to mention the shit load of memory that's required for the holodecks to run to the point that each hologram looks like the real, authentic thing and even acts like it, as well as reacts.
Star Wars? They've got nothing that even comes close to that sort of memory or computational capabilities. And despite the several security breaches in Starfleet, they do seem more protected than the casual Star Wars consol, where any enemy can just sneak aboard the bridge, reset the navicomp and not even apparently requiring a password.
At least it's still better than Dalek Security, where you leave your genuis enemy who has escaped in all his tight jams throughout your species entire history in the same room as the unlocked consol that controls every Dalek in existence...despite the fact that all Daleks are extremists to begin with, so no sort of device is even required...
In other words, how is SW superior to ST in computing power and technology?
