Rumors from someone besides his ex-wife? Because I haven’t heard one. Unless, of course, you count random speculations on the interwebs.

The episode is “Mirror, Mirror.” “Through a Mirror Darkly” is the “Deep Space Nine” episode in the Mirror Universe (well, one of a few.)

There are no statements that Sulu is heterosexual, but there are multiple indications throughout the series where he admires a woman in an amorous way, such as at the end of “Shore…

Neither situation makes any sense, so that’s kind of like justifying one bad script by citing another bad script that did the same thing.

This explanation is also entirely retroactive on their part after years of expressly referring to the Kelvin TIMELINE, meaning it was not meant to be an alternate universe, but a…

You entirely misconstrued that episode. It isn’t saying the entire show was a holodeck fantasy. It is saying that the events of the entire series, the last episode included, happened exactly as we saw them, and that they remain relevant enough in the 24th Century for Riker to have “visited the past” to help work some…

You mean anyone like George Takei himself?

1. A significant amount of combat would be in space, as it is in Star Wars itself.

2. Speed can win a war, a fight, or any other conflict. It doesn’t automatically win, but it is a valuable asset. It can, at the least, prevent your opponent from winning, leading to a stalemate.

3. Obviously Federation personnel are…

There’s an episode of Voyager where phased ion cannons from a planetary defense system strike the Voyager a minimum of six times, five after the initial one struck them in their deflector dish (before shields were raised), partially disabling it, and they didn’t lose shields, let alone have the vessel’s primary…

1. They cut apart the atomic bonds. There is no reason there needs to be an obvious display of energy release like some kind of bomb has gone off. The body’s molecules simply come apart.

You can’t destroy energy or matter, only change its state, but that doesn’t mean we have to be visually aware of the results. What…

For two reasons. 1. Because that would risk killing the person behind it if they were touching it and/or it were particularly volatile. 2. Because they are skilled fighters, tacticians, and marksman, but prefer to keep peace and minimize collateral damage.

As to why it doesn’t happen by accident, well, because phasers…

It’s been established, regardless of your opinion of their looks, that Federation personnel pass extensive physical training, martial arts, marksmanship, tactics, and other combat training, and are required to pass regular fitness examinations, just as in our real world police and military forces.

So we’re going to ignore the fact that any Storm Trooper ever shot, while wearing his armor, even though hit in the chest (which should be the strongest part of the armor) of an armor specifically designed to resist energy weapons, are immediately knocked unconscious or killed? That armor isn’t doing anyone any favors…

YOUR conversation is about Star Trek versus Star Wars. THE ARTICLE was having a conversation about The Federation versus the Galactic Empire, primarily because they are the major technological and military might shown in the cinematic (read: canon) adventures of each universe.

You can open it up to the whole universe…

I’m going to have to ask you to name those ‘dozens of other times’ Storm Troopers (NOT Clone Troopers, as they are NOT the same) are crack shots.

Starfleet Officers are actually trained for potential war-like scenarios. This is made explicit in the fact that every Starfleet Officer studies martial arts, ship combat,…

Don’t forget that it can be used to focus the entire power of a starship into a single destructive blast powerful enough to leave no doubt in the Enterprise crew’s mind that it would not just defeat, but OBLITERATE the Borg.

Of course, the reason they don’t often use that is it would shut the ship’s main power down for…

Which incident are you thinking of?

Because they don’t need to, which should say a lot. Standard Federation shuttlecraft have repeatedly been used in battle scenarios and performed at least as well if not better than Tie Fighters in most engagements we’ve seen them in.

A handful of shuttles would be superior to all those fighters, though, which is really the important fact at the end of the day.

Transporters CAN travel through shields. This was an issue on the Original Series and in the first season or so of the Next Generation, but innovative thinking (by the Enterprise D crew no…

Here is an example of what you are saying, CJ, assuming the Quite Likely takes them time to read such responses and is interested in learning more about Star Trek (since it appears they know very little.)
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It showed that what the Federation does best is the same thing the Borg do best — adapt and overcome new challenges. The Dominion posed a threat, to begin with, and the Federation changed its thinking to overcome that threat. They created new technology, adapted old technology, created new stratagems, gritted their…

Having existed longer doesn’t give you superior technology. That’s a flawed assumption. In fact, their age is a mark against them, given the technology is Star Wars has remained stagnant and hasn’t improved for thousands of years, whereas the Federation’s technology has gone from real world technology to what we see…