Thing is that Trek was and is being used (as an inspiration) for real scientific theories about FTL and apparently various other technological devices we made today (not to mention it was initially based on actual science back in it's day and from time to time tries to be consistent).
Furthermore ... SF's technology is NOT only almost 400 years into the future ... it's roughly about 3000 years into the future because the Vulcans (the Humans closest allies) were a space-faring race for close to 3000 years before Humans and set a certain standard.
Humanity being exposed to those technologies caught up to everyone else in 2161 (when the Federation was founded) and effectively introduced 'fresh perspective' into it all by further advancing those technologies (plus with 150 member races in the Federation, the diversity of scientific perspective would be actually staggering and the potential for developing even more radically advanced technology faster presents itself).
And by the late 24th century, they found themselves at a transitioning point from a technological point of view yet again most notably in FTL fields, Time Treavel and various other areas.
Star Wars as such is effectively a fantasy (although I do enjoy watching the movies on rare occasion), while Trek tries to ground itself more in actual science.
But when held up to scrutiny, both fail miserably.
As for if Wars Empire would win against Trek SF ... that's highly debatable because we have limited information to form a coherent opinion on which one would emerge victorious (though I have to admit, I find the attempt intriguing).
Also ... if I'm not mistaken Wong studied the technical manual which was made for TNG and intentionally made up figures for Wars which would surpass those of Trek ships making it look so a Wars X-wing could destroy a Galaxy class ship in a single shot.
One other thing that crossed my mind was that Wars was effectively demonstrated as a technologically static universe.
While Trek's Federation hyper advanced in merely 600 years to the point where time travel is widely used, and another 400 years later where their entire technology is based around time travel in some kind of a fashion.
So, even if Trek's Federation in the 24th century would not be able to 'stand up' to the Empire ... mere 200 years later, they can probably easily wipe the Empire from existence using what they will have for 'conventional weapons' at that point (well actually, they can probably do it in the late 24th century as well)
Furthermore ... SF's technology is NOT only almost 400 years into the future ... it's roughly about 3000 years into the future because the Vulcans (the Humans closest allies) were a space-faring race for close to 3000 years before Humans and set a certain standard.
Humanity being exposed to those technologies caught up to everyone else in 2161 (when the Federation was founded) and effectively introduced 'fresh perspective' into it all by further advancing those technologies (plus with 150 member races in the Federation, the diversity of scientific perspective would be actually staggering and the potential for developing even more radically advanced technology faster presents itself).
And by the late 24th century, they found themselves at a transitioning point from a technological point of view yet again most notably in FTL fields, Time Treavel and various other areas.
Star Wars as such is effectively a fantasy (although I do enjoy watching the movies on rare occasion), while Trek tries to ground itself more in actual science.
But when held up to scrutiny, both fail miserably.
As for if Wars Empire would win against Trek SF ... that's highly debatable because we have limited information to form a coherent opinion on which one would emerge victorious (though I have to admit, I find the attempt intriguing).
Also ... if I'm not mistaken Wong studied the technical manual which was made for TNG and intentionally made up figures for Wars which would surpass those of Trek ships making it look so a Wars X-wing could destroy a Galaxy class ship in a single shot.
One other thing that crossed my mind was that Wars was effectively demonstrated as a technologically static universe.
While Trek's Federation hyper advanced in merely 600 years to the point where time travel is widely used, and another 400 years later where their entire technology is based around time travel in some kind of a fashion.
So, even if Trek's Federation in the 24th century would not be able to 'stand up' to the Empire ... mere 200 years later, they can probably easily wipe the Empire from existence using what they will have for 'conventional weapons' at that point (well actually, they can probably do it in the late 24th century as well)
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Sisko was in the 24th C and had no problem throwing a punch.
Anyone who goes through the trouble of listing his credentials over and over again to "prove" that he must be correct deserves closer inspection. For instance, how many "experienced and respected" economists blew the recession forecast? As other posters and I have already pointed out, Mr. Wong misses the point of both SW and ST. They're modern mythologies, not history.
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