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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Zagorath to c/[email protected]
 

TranscriptionTumblr post by arctic-hands:

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

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An image depicting the story of the "Judgment of Solomon", where Solomon is labelled "stargate fandom", and the two women are labelled "star trek fandom" and "star wars fandom". The Star Wars lady is standing grumpily with her hands on her hips, while the Star Trek woman gestures with open arms. Between the two of them, on the floor, is a baby in a wicker basket. Solomon sits over them in judgment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Anyone else played VGAPlanets back in the day? Or perhaps yesterday?

https://planets.nu/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Picturing the Death Star being rocked by explosions and some random Stormtrooper in the coolest suit of armor ever seen who's all fucked up hobbles up to a button and is like "Adapt to this, bantha poodoo" and slams a fist onto the button, shooting the planet destroying laser at the cube as both vessels explode like Alderaan in the special edition remaster of New Hope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The thing about trek and wars fans is that humanity has the biggest baddest guns in their respective universe.

Gate fans know we tau'ri are inferior in technology, internal politics, weapons, manpower, and even our biology compared to the goa'uld and jaffa, the Asguard, and the replications.

We have a massive inferiority complex and we are fully aware that we are just hairless apes bumbling around in the dark, fiddling with tech that we barely, if at all understand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that hasn't heard this one?

[–] Zagorath 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I hadn't seen it before, but I'm also not seeing anyone saying they have seen it before? I know lemmy.world is having federation difficulties, but I checked how this post appears on there and still didn't see any comments to that effect. Are there other instances I should check that are also having problems?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean this is presented as an old joke, but I've never heard it.

[–] Zagorath 3 points 6 months ago

Oh I see. To me it looks like it's presented as very old, but not widely-known. Something that happened a long time ago in a couple of small niche communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You guys haven't heard of Stargate? It's awesome. It rivals TNG.

[–] Zagorath 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not Stargate, this specific post/story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The only one... so far.

Oops, that doesn't work here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Doesn't the death star have no shield? It has been years since I watched the movie, but I remember the shield coming from a generator on the planet. So, just move the fight somewhere away from the planet and light them up.

[–] Zagorath 2 points 6 months ago

Doesn’t the death star have no shield?... I remember the shield coming from a generator on the planet

That's true of the second Death Star. I forget whether there was any shield on the first DS or not, or whether there may have ended up being a shield over the second DS if it had been completed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People always debate Wars vs Trek but forget Blazers. Death Star absolutely loses to Wave Motion Gun

[–] Zagorath 1 points 6 months ago

I didn't forget Blazers, I've never heard of it before. And to be honest, my Googling was less-than-stellar just now, too. Is it an anime?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The real question is Borg vs Cybermen. Who assimilates who? And will Dr. Picwho be able to save us from the resulting super hybrids?

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