Which ship would win in a fight

[wraith1701]

I think all a Federation ship needs to do is beam out all the personnel from the bridge--maybe a dozen or so people. Shouldn't take too much energy or time. Is it ethical? Sure--what's the difference between killing them in the vacuum of space or killing them with photon torpedoes?

Yep; that's what I meant by my earlier post.  Remove the head of the snake (the command crew), and the body dies.  A lot more humane than destroying the entire star destroyer.

It'd be very cool to see the Defiant going against Ti Fighters. Hey didn't Starfleet field small fighters in their final fight against the Dominion? It'd also be cool to see those fighters do battle with Ti fighters.

The Akira-Class ships are designed to carry a complement of Perigrine class warp fighter craft.

[Jen]

Why didn't they just beam out the enemies of every ship they went head to head with?  ;)

Seems like it would have made their lives much easier when combating the Borg, Romulans, Klingons or Dominion. You're tactic sounds like a winner to me, but I don't think it was a battle tactic they ever practiced during combat. It probably violates some rule of engagement the Starfleet/Federation has.

[wraith1701]

Why didn't they just beam out the enemies of every ship they went head to head with?  ;)

I think that they would if they could. :)

Unlike the ships of the Star Wars universe, the ships of the Star Trek universe have shields which would prevent this.  I base this belief on the fact that in many instances, we see Star Wars ships being contacted or damaged by physical objects that would be deflected by Star Trek ships. 

For example, several star destroyers are damaged by relatively small asteroids in Episode V.  Also in Episode V, the Falcon is able to attach itself to the hull of Vader's star destroyer.  In the Star Trek universe, shields would have prevented the Falcon from even coming close to a starship.  And in Episode VI, we see at least one star destroyer get taken out by a kamikazi dive by a damaged starfighter that was at least 100 times smaller than the destroyer.  In Trek, comparatively sized objects, such as bits of debris, are routinely knocked out of the ship's path by the standard navigational deflector shield.

[3 Ducks in a Man Costume]

To be fair, they had noted that their shields were down around the bridge when that A-Wing flew through the window in Star Wars.

But maybe to complicate things further, what if you had someone like Darth Vader aboard the SD when it went up against the Galaxy ship? Perhaps the Force would be the real deciding factor, not technology.

[PepperDude]

Yeah you could be on to something.  :worthy  Darth Vader could use his Battle Meditation skillz to give his ship and fleet the upper hand. BTW, Battle Meditation is a skilled that Bastila used in Knights of the Old Republic with great effectiveness.

[billybob476]

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

[Darth Gaos]

Yeah you could be on to something.  :worthy  Darth Vader could use his Battle Meditation skillz to give his ship and fleet the upper hand. BTW, Battle Meditation is a skilled that Bastila used in Knights of the Old Republic with great effectiveness.

And (just to get totally geeky) also to used to some effect by Joruus C'Baoth (sp) in the Thrawn Trilogy.
That was actually something I hadn't considered...the effect any Force-users may have on the battle.