For many years, it’s been something of a parlor game among the nerdy classes to speculate on what would happen if one of the starships Enterprise<\/i> from the Star Trek<\/i> franchise faced off in battle against an Imperial Star Destroyer from Star Wars<\/i>. In fact, this particular hypothetical has been such a common topic of discussion in sci-fi fan circles that it’s become a tremendous cliche: Much like those 2 a.m. college dorm-room discussions in which someone suggests that maybe, just maybe, our lives are only dreams and none of the other people in the room are real and how damn trippy would that<\/i> be?, it’s the topic that everybody<\/i> has encountered at some time or another.<\/p>\n
The outcome of this debate is both inevitable and inconclusive: it ultimately comes down to simple partisanship, i.e., which franchise the debaters happen to be a bigger fan of. The Trekkies usually cite Star Trek<\/i>‘s defensive shielding technology (which seems to be lacking or at least far less impressive in George Lucas’ universe) and the seemingly infinite flexibility of phaser weapons as the decisive reason why the Enterprise<\/i> would kick butt. Meanwhile, the arguments of Star Wars<\/i> fans (Warsies?) usually depend on the sheer scale of Imperial machinery and the brute force commanded by those British-sounding guys in gray.*<\/p>\n
This video (one of the better-made ones I’ve seen in this particular sub-genre) introduces a hitherto ignored factor into the equation:<\/p>\n