TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Ok this got my inner nerd going at max.

I think the interpretation of Star Trek weapons being more powerful is because their tech is so much more flashy. If you consider what actually gets destroyed on screen Star Wars is shockingly more powerful than I think you are all considering.

http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/FiveMinutes.html

Goes over all this from an engineering view.

However the Trek side is generally massively more adaptable and specifically accurate firing. Also far far more willing to steal/reverse engineer tech so I'm inclined to still think one on one the Enterprise would win in spite of the engineering info I linked to above. Also Trek generally has better sensors but both are extremely sci-fi capable of most stuff.

If you are talking about full galaxy on galaxy all out war a bunch of people have already brought up logistics and in that Star Wars would demolish Every single Trek race. Trek has stuff like Dyson spheres etc. but they are always either ancient tech or a build over tens of thousands of years.

Star Wars builds multiple megaprojects per year like Death Stars and world ring sized shipyards like Kuat and that without a full sized war on just fighting rebels. Really just prestige projects to them. Don't get me started on the hilarious number of super weapons from the books and comics.

Also the hyperspace lanes limit on hyperspace travel is overstated. For super cheap transport craft that have junk level navigation computers it is just not worth going outside the known lanes but basically anything above that can figure out jumps with just a minute or two. No reason to think they couldn't send out bulk drones and map out anything they need extremely quickly or more likely just buy the info off someone. Plenty of races in Trek world join the Empire just for the cash.

Also transporters get blocked by all sorts of stuff all the time including just plain ole rock. Anyone assuming it would go through Stat Wars shields is crazy level of bias to your preferred universe. Now either doing it before they put the shields up or tricking them or using some tech sidestep to punch a hole in them and using transporters is extremely likely.

Again all back to one on one or full scale.

And with all that written wall of text ... Trek vs Wars is done to death. They really are apples to oranges with Trek being soft Sci-Fi and Wars being fantasy. I have mentally always mapped shows/books to how hard their setting is. Similar to this but I think of it as a 1-10 and Star Wars barely gets a 2 on my scale because it is at least semi internally consistent and gets physical scale right. Past that nothing really matches reality at all. Trek only gets about a 6 in my opinion because of the shear number of one off solutions that seem to be magically workable at that moment but somehow aren't at any other point.

A full 10 is just real life like the Apollo program. 9 is stuff like 2001 A Space Odesy or Randevuz with Rama. Yes both Arthur C Clark.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness

All that said Can we get some serious thoughts into others universe mash ups like the Warhammer vs Trek or something like that.

Or how about even more out of the normal like Titan AE. Slow? Almost no large scale logistics. But one insanely powerful piece of tech compared to basically every other sci-fi anything. Planet (not falling apart like Search for Spoken) production in a matter of hours and doesn't seem like it is a one off. They can make more with other astroid belts etc.

How about just the pure sillyness of trying Trek or Wars vs Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Cricket wars here we go.