XPost: alt.fan.starwars, alt.startrek   
   From: bob@bob.com   
      
   "Ridge"  wrote in message   
   news:3h11j0dvd5vuuljg838821d75qrh4m47lo@4ax.com...   
   > "kathryn"  thus spoke on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:20:37 +0000   
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   > >"Harlan Osier"  wrote in message   
   > >news:73640140.0408271539.7ef323ba@posting.google.com...   
   > >> Who would win ???   
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   > >Depends if Star Wars get to use the Death Star or not, otherwise Id stay   
   > >Trek has superior fire power   
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   > >Kathryn   
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   > "Combat range: in ROTJ, combat initially occurs at ranges of a few   
   > thousands kilometers, eventually closing to a few hundred kilometres   
   > ("point blank" according to Lando) until Rebel ships are within a few   
   > dozen kilometres of the Executor."   
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   > Main guns: 64000 GW (2 kilotons per shot, 480 rpm firing rate onscreen   
   > in AOTC for time-averaged power output rather than peak output)   
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   > vs.   
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   > "Combat range: fleet actions in DS9 uniformly feature engagements at   
   > ranges of 5 km or less, just as they do in TNG's Klingon wars or Borg   
   > engagements. In "The Die is Cast", Sisko actually orders the Defiant   
   > to approach to 500 metres (while taking fire) before shooting at a   
   > Jem'Hadar attack ship, presumably due to some disadvantage incurred at   
   > longer range. The only long-ranged incidents involve stationary or   
   > near-stationary targets."   
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   > Main phasers: 3.6 GW   
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   > (http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/)   
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   > Clearly, SW could hammer ST ships at nearly twice the fiirepower for   
   > longer than ST ships could return fire.   
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   > C.   
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   Well thank you for that technical reply.   
      
   Did you take into account photon torpedoes?  Superior shielding and the fact   
   that there are more much shinier star trek ships?   
      
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