“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone
A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments
so, in other words,
Pretty much.
here have some size comparison
Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?
And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:
Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:
And since Serenity was mentioned too…
Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.
And for those interested in a visual comparison:
(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)
TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status*goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun
(to be clear the monkey is Solo)
This is the analysis I am here for
The Enterprise can canonically render an entire planet devoid of life with a few torpedoes if the crew really wanted to
Also, one of the biggest thing people forget when comparing scifi universes is that every weapon in Star Trek is waaaaaay more powerful than a lot of other franchises – it just doesn’t seem that way because the other races also have these weapons.
Like no one wipes out planets not because they CAN’T in Trek, but because they also want to use those planets. Like the Borg wipe out a planet, and the Romulans try to blame the Federation for it.
Because it’s not outside of their capabilities.
Okay, but here’s the real question:
Why would the Falcon even be fighting the Enterprise?
The Enterprise is, first and foremost, a scientific and diplomatic ship. It has significant defensive capabilities, in line with its mission: “to seek out new life, to discover new planets, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.” They might find friendly aliens. They might find a bunch of uninhabited planets. They might find something that thinks the Enterprise would be a tasty snack. It’s good to be prepared for all those possibilities.
Meanwhile, the Falcon’s entire thing is “don’t be caught.” It wouldn’t want to engage with the Enterprise, and if it did, it would be on an emergency basis where the Falcon needed help. They wouldn’t be fighting, they’d be saying “hi, our warp reactor sprang an unobtainium leak in the Z29 sector and we don’t have the macguffinite to fix it, can we like, borrow one of your repair bays and trade you some credits to get materials?”
The only reason the Enterprise would have to say “no” is if they realized the Falcon was a smuggling ship. And if that happened, one of two outcomes would occur:
1) Kirk would have to let them go because the Empire isn’t part of the Federation and has no treaties with the Federation that would give Kirk the authority to detain the Falcon, or
2) Kirk would be like “well listen the Federation isn’t allowed to take sides in this conflict because we don’t admit warring planets, but we are allowed to drop stranded travelers off at space ports, and if your repairs should happen to take all the time between here and Tattooine where you just happen to need to drop this princess who’s fighting the space Nazis, well, we’re just making sure some people in a conflict we know nothing about get home safely.” And then he’d set course.
And frankly, even if the Enterprise were to encounter the Empire after this, I’m pretty sure they’d be able to be like “we were just coming through to get around Romulan airspace and assisted some civilians. We don’t take sides in conflicts and if you’ll excuse us, we’re actually on our way to Rikkitikkitavi VIII to send one of our crew home for his biologically-mandated fornication.” Because even if that pissed off the Empire, as noted above, the Enterprise has planet-destroying capabilities. The Empire is hamstrung.
But all of this, of course, ignores the biggest factor in why the Falcon wouldn’t fight the Enterprise, which is that at a bare minimum they’re several centuries apart (and may be moreso. We know that in 1977 the Falcon was already “a long, long time ago,” and I believe the Enterprise is from the 2200s if I recall my Trek timeline correctly. If the Enterprise time-traveled again and ended up in the appropriate time and galaxy, they’d probably be doing their best to avoid engaging with anyone, because this time and place by definition exists before the Federation and so the Prime Directive is in place as these are all uncontacted planets.
sure! as the favored waterbird of the inland north, loons can be found on everything from state flags to motivational stationery.
but while all of this hoohah might give you a pretty good idea of what these elegant birds look like, they absolutely fail to give you a sense of scale!
when u are holding a hammer everything looks like a nail -> when u are holding a point and shoot camera every sight looks incomparably ephemerally beautiful
last night i was on the verge of falling asleep and i suddenly had this vivid image in my mind of a link that was being passed around tumblr on the understanding that it was some kind of very important psa, but the embed was just a photo of a man in a field and a headline that said ‘Know him for his mole attacks and seek shelter.’ and it was so funny to me i woke up. so obviously the next day i made it on my website
I like how there’s a category of careers (cowboy, pirate, spy, princess) that have a very specific historical and political context that they get stripped of for the entertainment of children
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Fandoms: Doctor Who. Marvel. WTNV. Star Trek. Wynnona Earp. DC. Star Wars. etc
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