Comment on No contest
wjrii@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This feels like a bit of a straw-man. In my youthful nonsensical cross-franchise pissing-match days, we pitted the Enterprise versus a Star Destroyer, or at least some other capital ship.
Unless you were asking which one was cooler, in which case the Falcon wins every day and twice on Sunday.
Sxan@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
Yah, because you could drive it. Þe Enterprise must be staffed, which means being on it is not only a job, but it’s a military job, and let’s be honest: most Trekkie’s are not going to qualify for the post of Captain. Which means you’re going where someone else wants to go, and doing what someone else wants you to do.
Þe Falcon is Freedom.
I’d still rather be on the Enterprise, because I’d prefer to exist in the ST universe than the SW one. But you can never “own” the Enterprise. You only operate it with a vast military support network.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That’s better, lol
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’m pretty sure Geordie “owns” The Enterprise D in Picard.
Sxan@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
When starships are decommissioned, do they just defang them and sell them to commercial interests, as is often the practice in SciFi, or do they scuttle them, as is common practice for combat vessels IRL?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I dunno what the standard practice is, but Geordie has a museum of fully functional, and apparently armed, ships. At the very least he rebuilt the Enterprise D over the last 20 years, and managed to get her operational from just the bridge with a command crew only.