Also the Enterprise vs. Millennium Falcon debate has never ceased to confuse me, like, you’re basically wondering who’d win in a fight between a fully staffed US Navy research vessel armed with harpoons and torpedos and all sorts of other boat vessels OR your weedman and his sweet vintage van, his buddy riding shotgun with a crossbow
Back when the EU was still called the EU, the published technical sources did seem to indicate that Star Wars had more powerful weapons, hyperdrives, etc. than what was listed in the Trek tech manuals. I think that’s what the “Millenium Falcon would win” claim is based on. But really, both Wars and Trek (EUs/novelverses included) just made up their technology stuff as they went along, changing and retconning as necessary to fit any given plot. So, probably, if such an improbable battle ever “really” happened, the outcome would be decided by whatever the writers decided was best for the plot, not by any tech manual stats or whatever.
(I remember there used to be this website where this one guy, obviously a Star Wars fan, selectively used all these different EU sources (along with copious insults and cursing) to claim that Star Trek ships would always lose and that anyone who claimed otherwise was stupid and/or spouting propaganda. The scary thing (aside from the fact that some of his arguments were just nonsense) was just how over-the-top the site was: it wasn’t enough for this guy to simply show that the Executor could beat the Enterprise and leave it at that; he had to prove that Star Trek fans were less intelligent, that Trek itself was worse-written and less moral (“zomg Star Trek promotes socialism!”), and that the Empire was better than the Federation in every imaginable way. It was one of the most bizarre things I’d seen on the Internet up until that point.)
like i’d pretend to be surprised that someone could watch star wars, pat himself on the back endlessly for his great intellectualism, and still not recognise that the empire are the baddies, but it would be a lie. that’s basically the epitome of ‘nerd culture’.
(and i think i’ve glimpsed this site. hell i think the atomic rockets guy linked it at some point… yes, of course he fucking did. it’s here. it is incredibly embarassing and i’m glad i’ve never interacted with the guy. but i’m not sure if my what if school of etc. etc. posts are any less embarassing.)
I think it was stardestroyer.net, and yeah, it was the most embarrassing thing on the Internet ca. 2000