Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Again, I'd have to look for an example of a corresponding tech in SW. Advantage: Trek, with reservations. Remember that Trek Ships can't fire while cloaked. That severely limits their effectiveness in combat.
I'll try to answer this:
Star Wars tech does cloaking devices in its arsenal but I don't know if they are used as much as they are in ST, more or less.
The empire built cloaking devices for the following ships (as far as I know) for the tie phantoms, they were developing one for the Executor-class Star Dreadnought before Rouge Squadron destroyed it,Starkiller's Rouge Shadow had one,Darth Maul's Scimitar.
Grand Admiral Thrawn (Galacitc Empire/Imperial Remnant/ Empire of the Hand) was able able to cloak tie fighters and mole miners in the "Heir to the Empire" novel. Thrawn was also able to cloak asteroids as seen in "The Last Command"
The Criminal Warlord Tyber Zann was able some of his frigates. Though Zann's cloaking device would make the frigates shields malfunction.
The Galactic Alliance believe that the "dome structure" on Chiss Star destroyers have cloaking devices. They haven't confirmed it one way or the other but Jaina Solo who is a very experienced/accomplished fighter pilot believe they do.
Supposedly in The Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy game, the player goes to a planet to destroy it's cloaking device another jedi installed at some unknown time so that the Disciples of Ragnos didn't acquire it.
Some of the SW model cloaking devices works both ways so that the enemy can't see them or pick them up on sensors but the cloaked ship are in the same predicament. So its not that big of an advantage depending on the model.