SciFi Wire, in pointing to their sister site, DVICE, asks questions about “who’d beat whom” in SF battles, a long and honored tradition.
Their examples, though, aren’t very even or creative.
Ever wonder who would come out on top if sci-fi’s most famous franchises duked it out?
Could a fleet of Shadow vessels from Babylon 5 overpower the Death Star?
Yeah. Yeah, I’m pretty sure they could. The Death Star is a one-trick pony. Yeah, it has swarms of TIE fighters, and various gun turrets, but (so far as the movies go), it’s big gun isn’t exactly what you’d call suited to a quick, dynamic space battle.
The Shadow Ships, on the other hand, not only have their own swarms of fighters, but are regularly shown carving apart opposing vessels and large space installations — not unlike the Death Star.
No contest, as far as I can see. Especially if we’re talking a fleet.
What if the Cybermen battled the Borg?
I’m pretty sure the Borg would wipe them out without much fanfare. The Cybermen are pretty impressive against hapless humans with slugthrowers and no body armor, but the ever-adaptive Borg — even if we’re just talking about foot soldiers here, not a Cube — would handle Cybermen pretty easily. Esp. once they figured out how to hack into their system and assimilate them that way.
(Now, a Borg Cube vs a Shadow Ship … that might be interesting …)
Check out our sister site DVICE as it leaps into the fray to referee a Star Trek/BSG face-off, which we hope will be the first of many such bouts. Find out which starship will be triumphant and which will end up as nothing more than space debris!
Without looking at the site, I give the nod to the Enterprise. Not only is her in-battle warp drive technology more than capable of evading any nukes Galactica might toss her way, her shields would render her immune to any fighters from Galactica and her energy weaponry would quickly end the battle.
(Of course, then we we would have to see a lust-off between Riker and Starbuck …)
For the record, DVICE disagrees, though they call it close. But only, it seems, because Vipers can outgun Shuttlecraft (because that’s what the Enterprise always uses in battle, right?) and because BSG’s DRADIS is somehow superior in battle to ST’s sensors (what?!).
FWIW, I see the battle between the two as pretty close to the TOS episode “Balance of Terror,” with Galactica in the Romulan Bird of Prey role (slower, more primitive technology, but with a few tricks up its sleeves). That one ended up as a pretty decisive victory for Enterprise, barring Adama coming up with an extraordinarily clever idea (not beyond the realm of possibility). I stand by my assessment (and most of the commenters at the site seem to agree with me).
Its obvious.
The Doctor wins.
Yes, but he’s haunted and guilt-ridden by doing so.