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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1277359" data-attributes="member: 6929"><p>Oh, I don't know... B5's Earthforce uses missiles with fairly fearsome destructive ability (see the season 4 culmination where one missile-equipped satellite prepares to destroy the eastern seaboard of America), and there are about a kajillion different types of weapon listed in the B5 d20 rulebook, ranging from lasers to particle beams to Minbari fusion cannon (which aren't powered by fusion, it's what they do to the target) to various antimatter cannon to the feared neutron laser, which I have no concept of operational theory, but sounds cool, just like phasers. Hardly 'just blasters'. The Drakh Plague that overran Earth was nanotech, and not the nano of any mere galactic scourge such as the Borg, but nano derived from the science of a race so ancient they keep the first lifeform of our Universe in their basement.</p><p></p><p>And Star Wars is riddled with tech if you know where to look. I've already mentioned Interdictor Cruisers and wondered about their effects on warp corridors, seeing as they're intended to disrupt a parallel continuum and Trek ships still travel within 'real' space. There's also bacta (not as effective as dermal regenerators, but hey), droids that manage to both have intelligent personalities and not create an android army to destroy mankind (let me check, how many AI-enabled robots are there in Trek? Hm, two. And one of them's an Evil Twin TM. The record for Giant Computers is even worse, they're all machine supremacists), and cloning. Plus you can do nearly anything with the Force.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying Trek is surpassed by any of this. In fact, it's still about the most tech-saturated thing on TV, and still has the awesome Transporter. It's just that there is a fair amount more than just blasters and shields to B5 and SW.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 1277359, member: 6929"] Oh, I don't know... B5's Earthforce uses missiles with fairly fearsome destructive ability (see the season 4 culmination where one missile-equipped satellite prepares to destroy the eastern seaboard of America), and there are about a kajillion different types of weapon listed in the B5 d20 rulebook, ranging from lasers to particle beams to Minbari fusion cannon (which aren't powered by fusion, it's what they do to the target) to various antimatter cannon to the feared neutron laser, which I have no concept of operational theory, but sounds cool, just like phasers. Hardly 'just blasters'. The Drakh Plague that overran Earth was nanotech, and not the nano of any mere galactic scourge such as the Borg, but nano derived from the science of a race so ancient they keep the first lifeform of our Universe in their basement. And Star Wars is riddled with tech if you know where to look. I've already mentioned Interdictor Cruisers and wondered about their effects on warp corridors, seeing as they're intended to disrupt a parallel continuum and Trek ships still travel within 'real' space. There's also bacta (not as effective as dermal regenerators, but hey), droids that manage to both have intelligent personalities and not create an android army to destroy mankind (let me check, how many AI-enabled robots are there in Trek? Hm, two. And one of them's an Evil Twin TM. The record for Giant Computers is even worse, they're all machine supremacists), and cloning. Plus you can do nearly anything with the Force. I'm not saying Trek is surpassed by any of this. In fact, it's still about the most tech-saturated thing on TV, and still has the awesome Transporter. It's just that there is a fair amount more than just blasters and shields to B5 and SW. [/QUOTE]
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