Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Galaxy Gun destroys Earth/other major planets of ST.
Did you not read it the 1st time?
Destroying planets doesn't affect the ST universes battle capabilities because most of it is in space anyway. Besides how to you aim for and hit a planet you can't see givin that ST has the ability to cloak entire planets?
And replicators can't instantly..
Strawman argument. Besides industrial sized replicators have been seen anyway. Used specifically for making large engine components etc. So yes, weapons can be replicated.
Considering that in AOTC, a Clone trooper’s rifle was able to blast a Droideka in half..
So a clone's rifle is the same as Han's blaster now? How do you explain Leia taking a direct hit and receiving nothing but a graze on her arm?
A low power federation phaser (the small hand units as opposed to the larger, more powerful rifle) can blast through 10 feet of solid rock...Bit more impressive than a few inches of metal
Theres also an instance of planetary debris hitting a Borg ship and destroying it well enough.
I take it you're referring to the incident with species 8472? Bit of an odd argument given that the ship that was destroyed had already taken massive damage in an attack from a species 8472 bioship and was left without shields or propulsion.
Picards Tommy Gun is quite very applicable enough as well considering that the holodeck..
Do SW employ projectile based hand held weaponry? Is it known that the Borg suffer losses from most weapons before analysing and adapting and is it therefor reasonable to assume that had Picard tried that trick again, the Borg would have adapted
I’ve cited official manuals and episodes to back up my claims and given specific movie examples. Hell I’ve even given other EU examples as a means of argument....
I wouldn't be taking the ST manual as an infallible source of information. It states that Breen hand held weapons have only kill settings but several times in DS9, people take direct hits from them and survive.
I've cited tons of examples of ST weapons that you've had no counter argument against. Start showing me what SW would do to counter those weapons and perhaps you'll be onto a more plausible argument. I've already PROVEN that the Borg can adapt to weapons by frequency regardless of power. Have you shown how SW would prevent being hit by phased weapons? Have you countered the fact that weakest federation torpedo (the photon) is more powerful than the most powerful nuclear weapon ever.
Care to cite examples?
Certainly. In Q-who (next generation) the Borg used transporters that passed straight through the shields of the enterprise.
In DS9 episode "the Jem'Hadar" the Dominion had transporters that passed straight through shielding.
Yeah you've really only looked at the surface of that site if you are going to make that presumption: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire...p;Submit=Submit
Bit of a silly argument, most of them eh?
Yes, we all know the Borg consist of assimilated Species that had males and females. Are these genders utilised within the species or are they bypassed by cybornetic implants. Well we know they use birthing chambers and not natural pregnancies. Regardless...What actually is the argument he's trying to make on that point anyway?
He then argues that the Borg can't adapt to any weapon despite the fact that they clearly assimilated Hirogen, Klingon and many other species (clearly indicating that they've easily adapted to their weapons in order to assimilate them). Not to mention the fact that it's mentioned countless time that they can adapt to any weapon.
The point about the tractor beam? So what if it can only be used at short range. The whole point of it's use isn't as a weapon but as a means to stop and allow for the assimilation of ships. Not to destroy them (Pretty self explanatory why it wouldn't be used IN A BATTLE then isn't it)
The vast majority of the rest of the points are completely irrelevant to this debate.
The entire star fleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships
Makes my point stand even more doesn't it?
For one thing, he does not say Star Destroyers. Meaning that the official numbers cannot be established by someone who is demonstrably wrong about the capacities of the Empire....
I'd say someone who makes his living smuggling things across the galaxy and avoiding the empire would know them well enough.
Lets go back to the quote "The entire star fleet couldn'f destroy the whole planet"...Yet 9 small species 8472 bioships could. And there's an entire universe of them to put into the fight.
The Dreadnought class ship in question recieved several refits during the course of time when they have been obtained by Thrawn
They were made before the clone wars and were lost in hyperspace on their 1st voyage. So how it could have been outfitted? Oh and my mistake. It wasn't 500 ships...It was 200.
And an ISD is weak against a Borg cube.... how exactly? If species 8472 has demonstrated anything, its that a sufficient magnitude of firepower beyond the realms of Borg adaptation is enough to overcome the Borg...
There's no mention of the mechanism that species 8472 employ in their weapons so making baseless assumptions is silly.
Again, you are assuming that Star Destroyers are the only ship that consist of the Imperial Fleet...
You have zero proof of this. We've seen an imperial star destroyer being incapable of destroying the millenium falcon, which is effectively a piece of junk.
We've seen areas of ships take direct impacts from turbolasers which have only caused minor explosions in hanger decks etc.
We've also seen a fully armed SD take an impact from a small asteroid that has sheered of and destroyed a huge chunk of the ship.
2 death stars within 5 years.
The 1st death star was already well into construction when Luke and Leia were born but wasn't operational until they were fully grown up. Your time lines are WAY OFF.
Which is to say nothing about how many they actually produce, merely the speed of which they are produced....
Evidently nowhere near as quickly as the Dominion. Which was my point.
So the presence of a force that has a high volume of blaster weaponry...
No...seeing as i've already shown a minor phaser shot is far more powerful than SW rifles. I've not even mentioned the transporter rifle which fires a projectile and then transports it to either inside an enemy target or just outside ready for impact...in other words, unstoppable. And this is just the federation weapons.
It would give them a sufficient advantage...
Biological cloaks? Don't think they've even sniffed that kind of technology before.
Actually it’s still all on you. After all you made this claim without even providing any immediate specifics:
You were the one who said "i won't go into specifics". In regards to countering my points, you still haven't done so...Please do.
Also read the thread. You'll like it.
And when did I mention Star Fleet in that post? I’m asking for pretty much the whole of trek. Again, how standardized is transwarp that it is sufficiently distributed throughout the fleet(or any fleet for that matter) ...
The federation, the Borg and the Voth all have transwarp drive, The Borg also have the transwarp hubs. Transwarp isn't a specific technology but merely a piece of terminology to indicate in advance beyond warp technology. The entire Borg fleet utilises it. Only a small number of Federation ships had utilised it (including one that reached infinite velocity). Unsure about the Voth though.
You do realise BDZ is the bombardment of a planet and can take an entire fleet days to do it? In many cases people have escaped planets under BDZ bombardment. Can you see them doing the same to an attack by species 8472?
This is where I direct you to the Voyager episode: Scorpion Part II. Where 13 bio-ships were destroyed and as a result...
By a weapon that SW can manufacture?
Last I check they were described as a direct energy weapon
You're thinking of a "phaser"...Not a "phased" weapon...Difference....Idiot.
Yeah. Shields.
Are you deliberately being obtuse? Shields don't work on weapons that phase out of space/time because the weapons don't exist on the same plane of existence as the shields until they rematerialse at their target. It's not difficult to grasp.
Power magnitudes had a lot to do with it. Really now the only real relevance of frequencies....
The relevance of frequencies is how the Borg adapt to direct energy weapons. It's mentioned countless times in ST and it's why the Federation alternate phaser frequency to make them (slightly) more effective. So no. It has nothing to do with bypassing shields. The Borg have several other weapons for doing that.
Again, you have no evidence for what it is about species 8472 weapons that makes the Borg succeptible to them. It may have nothing to do with magnitude. Even if it does, it's quite clear that the magnitude of their weapons far outstrips anything the SW universe has and so they would win on their own.
Raw power is completely ineffective against ablative armour. Still haven't answered that point (or any of the others i've made)
Keep trying son.