Hey! That damned Warbird just cut me off! Exec, power up weapons...
This is what happens when too many fanboys are gathered together to make a space epic with no non-fanboy supervision. Or traffic control.
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Ironically, there's not a Bird of Prey in there!
What did the Romulans drive? A Warbird? I can't remember all that crap anymore…
Actually, that wasn't intended to be a snarky nerd-critique… I meant to imply that they'd already blown it up for cutting them off… but I got distracted and clicked "Submit" before I finished my thought. Sorry 'bout that.
Eh, no worries. I figure that I'm venturing into a minefield anytime I post anything Star Wars/Star Trek related. I used the one ship name I could remember, and of course it was wrong.
But I like the blowing up angle, I should have used that.
Star trek was the one with the x wing right?
/too easy (to bait people who are way too into it, not making fun of our gentlemanly professor)
Eh? It's a Sikorsky:
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Oh right.
Get thee to Memory Alpha!
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main
I'm starting to have second thoughts about posting the rest of my planned articles on fictional spacecraft. You guys are scary.
I just like 'em because they look cool. They also give me good ideas on projector weapons to muck about with.
Crazy? Come on. if I were crazy would I post a picture of a girl licking her toe?
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Not touching it.
I'm with you. A cool design is a cool design. I've never really been able to get into it, but Eve online has some awesome spaceship design.
There, I fixed it. As far as I can tell. In trying to get the right name, I saw this romulan ship:
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labled as a Warbird and a Bird of Prey, and "D'deridex". So just what is the correct name for this thing?
D'deridex is the proper Romulan name. Warbird is the
AmericanFederation English name. Bird of Prey is just wrong. There is a Romulan "Bird of Prey" but it more closely resembles the Klingon Bird of Prey.Original Series Romulan BoP:
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Star Trek: Nemesis Romulan BoP:
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Thank you. Fanboy.
The way I remember it, D'deridex is ship
class, Bird of Prey is sorta like a NATO
code name, and Warbird was the TNG
update of that.
As for the Romulan BoP looking like Klingon
cruisers, I think it was another case of the
dreaded, " The model's not ready yet, Mr
Roddenberry.." And they passed it off as
a technology transfer ie: Germany & Japan.
Damn skippy imma Fanboi;
ya don't think I show up for the
scintillating conversation, do ya?
Did anyone else open up the large version hoping to see a rogue vessel, Firefly classification in there?
Also it brings to mind how badly the Empire would trounce the Federation.
I'm already regretting my decision to comment because I'm going to look like such an effing fanboi.
The (Star Trek) Federation would easily prevail over the (Star Wars) Empire.
Empire air support rely too much on speed and sheer numbers. Federation phasers are accurate and directional and would make quick work of unshielded TIE fighters. Empire capital ships provide heavy fire and are relatively well shielded, but all Federation craft (including air support) are shielded (unless the plot requires their shields to easily fail). Even a Federation medium cruiser (Akira, Defiant, etc) are a nice mix of agile enough to avoid the slow targeting of an ISD's blasters, and shielded enough to take the hits that do find their mark.
I think I should stop there and do a whole post on this.
Come now, I'm disappointed in you. Akira is a heavy cruiser, Defiant is an escort cruiser.
Huh, I guess Defiant works. A bit obtuse, but it works.
Kind of used to names like Destiny and Candy for escorts though…
I'm going to go with 'there are more of them and they're all better' as stat-ed out by that site (which is much fun).
It seems to me that Star Trek is simply about the inherent goodness of (mostly)humanity. Star Wars is about the struggle of good versus evil.
I like Warhammer 40K. Which is about the (futile and meaningless) struggle of quite-evil-indeed versus ridiculously evil. Imperium of Man vs. The Empire? Now that would be a good fight.
Maybe. The Imperium seems to sort of suck at energy weapons, comparatively. And shields.
Besides, we've all seen how badly
Imperial troops are at aiming….
"Gun Control is being able to HIT
your target"
Not to mention, the Empire figured out one way to destroy a planet. How many ST universe bad guys have figured out ways to destroy planets in completely different and interesting ways? Hell, the Federation does it with a modified photon torpedo (Genesis Device).
Also, the federation has transporter technology. Beam explosive weapons right into the Empire fleet and/or their bases. Done.
The Federation DID prevail over the Empire. As in it already happened. The Empire was a long time ago whereas the federation is in the future. One can only assume that after a series of tyrannical rulers came and went, the Empire simply imploded, broke up or somehow destroyed itself. Since there is no reference to it in Star Trek cannon, it either doesn't exist anymore or perhaps never did.
Heavy Traffic? Meh.
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