Star Trek versus Star Wars: The Debate is Opened

Originally posted by Schecter
no, they use blasters
never is it said that they use lasers.
you're just inventing evidence for the win, which while pathetic, is still a few notches above dragging star-wars EU into the debate for the win.

Blaster is a term that can be used interchangeably with the term "laser" for everyday conversation. Regardless, blasters and lasers are particle beam weapons, which fire a "bolt" of energy. The designs of blasters are a fair bit older than that of lasers, becoming less common in newer ships. With their design, blasters have high fire cycle rates, enabling them to multi fire, a mode of fire in which the rate of discharge is increased at the cost of accuracy. Blasters, because they are weaker than laser of similar size, are limited to starfighters.

ok, so thats a direct quote from wikipedia, (im too new a member to post the link)

so if blasters are weaker than lasers, then they definetly can not hurt startrek vessals

Originally posted by Kahless
Blaster is a term that can be used interchangeably with the term "laser" for everyday conversation.

no it isnt. a laser is shot in the form of an endless beam, which a blaster isnt. if anything, a phaser can be equated to a laser. though i wouldnt say that since i respect the boundaries of fiction and wouldnt pull such a copout to win the internets.

Originally posted by Kahless
Regardless, blasters and lasers are particle beam weapons, which fire a "bolt" of energy. The designs of blasters are a fair bit older than that of lasers, becoming less common in newer ships.

can we just acknowledge that blasters are a work of fiction, the same as phasers? please? you're scaring me.

Originally posted by Kahless
With their design, blasters have high fire cycle rates, enabling them to multi fire, a mode of fire in which the rate of discharge is increased at the cost of accuracy. Blasters, because they are weaker than laser of similar size, are limited to starfighters.

blasters do not exist. it is impossible to fire a short traveling burst of light with a head and tail. IMPOSSIBLE. its fiction.

Originally posted by Kahless
ok, so thats a direct quote from wikipedia, (im too new a member to post the link)

some pseudo-scientific whackjob posts their fantasies on wikipedia and you use it as evidence.

Originally posted by Kahless
so if blasters are weaker than lasers, then they definetly can not hurt startrek vessals

ZOMG YOU WIN!1 dur

A lightsaber cuts through ANYTHING. ✅

Irrevelant, but there it is.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
A lightsaber cuts through ANYTHING. ✅

Irrevelant, but there it is.

Wrong, can't cut another lightsaber's "blade". Otherwise we wouldn't have the "cool" sound effects in the movies.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
A lightsaber cuts through ANYTHING. ✅

Irrevelant, but there it is.

Ummm could a lightsabre cut through a wall made of cortosis?

Originally posted by Robtard
Wrong, can't cut another lightsaber's "blade". Otherwise we wouldn't have the "cool" sound effects in the movies.

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Ummm could a lightsabre cut through a wall made of cortosis?

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Ummm could a lightsabre cut through a wall made of cortosis?

So, cortosis will short out a lightsabre. Hmmmm I didn't know about that.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
whats Cortosis? is that StarWars related?

Yeah it's a major part of the plot line in the Jedi Knight 2: Outcast videogame.

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Yeah it's a major part of the plot line in the Jedi Knight 2: Outcast videogame.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
thats one of the few areas of the SW universe I am not familiar with, the KOTOR games.

It's not part of the KOTOR era.

blasters do not exist. it is impossible to fire a short traveling burst of light with a head and tail. IMPOSSIBLE. its fiction.

umm obviously?

we are not talking real life here, we are talking fiction, and we are debating on fictional terms.

its irrelevant if it could happen in real life, because we are talking the worlds of star wars and startrek which is not real life

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
It's not part of the KOTOR era.

I do know that spider slik armor can deflect blaster bolts.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
whatever, I am still not familiar with it.

You mean to tell me you haven't completely ruined your own opinion of Star Wars by reading, buying, playing or memorizing every bit of Expanded Universe garbage out there?!

What kind of a fan are you?

Originally posted by Devil King
You mean to tell me you haven't completely ruined your own opinion of Star Wars by reading, buying, playing or memorizing every bit of Expanded Universe garbage out there?!

What kind of a fan are you?

the games? nope.

Even those Yuuzhan Vong books?

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
Yeah it's a major part of the plot line in the Jedi Knight 2: Outcast videogame.

Not really. Shadow troopers are still little bishes, and even then, that particular plot point isn't totally significant.

Originally posted by Devil King
Even those Yuuzhan Vong books?

Originally posted by Robtard
Edit: The Jedi and and the force are the Star Wars anti-borg card. Problem is, how many Jedi exist compared to the Borg millions. Also, a victory would most likely be accomplished in a space battle.

You mean Borg trillions, don't you? (Maybe more...who knows?)

Edit- I still like the Star Wars Universe much more that the Star Trek Universe. I think that it could go down the middle and it could go to star wars and it could go to star trek...depending on your perspective and what you chose to acknowledge.

Case in point, Star Wars has the bad ass Han Solo....Star Trek has the bad ass Data. (I love brent spiner....)

numbers are kind of irrelevant when all those trillions share the same mind.