starwars Vs. star trek

is got me thinking for a couple of minutes, mainly due to my interest in

millitary science. In Star Trek you have large ships with heavy guns firing at
each other from long range(more or less). Star Trek naval warfare very closely
resembles WWI battleship tactics. In star wars you have carriers, the star
destroyer with its TIE-fighter battle group, and rebel
cruisers(correllian
corvettes? mon calamari ships?) with X-wing and Y-wing battle groups.
Star Wars therefore is similar to WWII naval tactics, carriers with fighter
battle

groups. As a little side note the dogfight scenes in star wars were made using
film footage of WWII dogfights. Yes I know in Star trek they use fighters, but
the only time I have ever seem them was in DS9 during a couple battles in the
war, and most of the ships were heavy battle cruisers(battle ships). And yes
star wars does have big capital ships blasting at each other with big guns.
What I am trying to show is the general use of naval forces in each of the
universes. Thought I might share my observations of these two popular
Sci-Fi backgrounds.  I hope someone finds this interesting =).

"treat your plane like your women, jump in them about 5 times a day and take
'em
to heaven and back." -Captain FlashHeart

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:01:26 -0800, Chris Connor <con9570@flash.net>
wrote:

> In Star Trek you have large ships with heavy guns

Actually, it doesn't really resemble much of anything. The ships don't
maneouvre in lines or anything, even though that might make sense given the
weapon layout and the lack of 3D movement. The ranges are ridiculously close
for the weapons. There isn't much in the way of tactics except "swarming".

I have some thoughts of my own on Star Trek...

A certain game designer...who shall remain nameless...told me himself that all
of Star Trek is just a vast allegory to the 20th century. So his game
design...also will remain
nameless...is filled with 20th century non-clamenture (that word is hard
to spell)

When I told him I didn't think so...he said I just needed to get back to
"reality". But on second thought, he felt that "reality" was better without me
in it!

Now is that anyway for a business man to talk with one of his customers?

Sorry about that last post, but that dude really cheezed me off!