my favorite “star trek v star wars” fanfic i ever read was actually really fair and obviously written by a fan of both star franchises (or stargate lol)
i have no idea what it was called. but it acknowledged the strengths and weaknesses each would have an created a neat scenario that resulted in a plausible “worlds collide” event that in itself was very star trek (dimensional rift kind of thing).
it was basically Empire v Federation. the Empire blew up Mars. hyperspace was insanely fast and gave the star destroyers a massive advantage but federation ships were packing incredible firepower and maneuverability. there were good stakes and it was fun.
my only bias was enjoying space fascists eventually get fucked up by plucky inventive space communists once they realized they were basically fighting the equivalent of the “coast guard”.
Starfleet ships are not, by and large, warships. Smacking around a California class doesn’t necessarily mean anything about your chances against a Defiant class or an Akira class
sorry for late reply! my summary was poorly worded. the dimensional rift connected the Sol system and the environs around Courscant together. in the story the Enterprise-E crew we all know and love figured out along with starfleet that the forces they were up against was not an experienced conquering battlefleet but basically a colonial police force/coast guard and used that to their advantage. it took place post-Dominion war so starfleet ironically had far more combat experience and combat capable ships and they were able to outmaneuver and essentially isolate and tactically destroy the star destroyer and Imperial fleet elements because they were so overconfident and not used to fighting a force that had such radically different doctrine and technology.
it treated the star destroyers as tough to take down heavily armored behemoths that had inaccurate manually crew served plasma weapons that individually didn’t pack a huge punch.
my favorite “star trek v star wars” fanfic i ever read was actually really fair and obviously written by a fan of both star franchises (or stargate lol)
i have no idea what it was called. but it acknowledged the strengths and weaknesses each would have an created a neat scenario that resulted in a plausible “worlds collide” event that in itself was very star trek (dimensional rift kind of thing).
it was basically Empire v Federation. the Empire blew up Mars. hyperspace was insanely fast and gave the star destroyers a massive advantage but federation ships were packing incredible firepower and maneuverability. there were good stakes and it was fun.
my only bias was enjoying space fascists eventually get fucked up by plucky inventive space communists once they realized they were basically fighting the equivalent of the “coast guard”.
can you elaborate on this please?
Starfleet ships are not, by and large, warships. Smacking around a California class doesn’t necessarily mean anything about your chances against a Defiant class or an Akira class
So the coast guard in that analogy was star fleets advance forces?
While they’re armed, most federation ships are primarily civilian in nature, and built accordingly.
sorry for late reply! my summary was poorly worded. the dimensional rift connected the Sol system and the environs around Courscant together. in the story the Enterprise-E crew we all know and love figured out along with starfleet that the forces they were up against was not an experienced conquering battlefleet but basically a colonial police force/coast guard and used that to their advantage. it took place post-Dominion war so starfleet ironically had far more combat experience and combat capable ships and they were able to outmaneuver and essentially isolate and tactically destroy the star destroyer and Imperial fleet elements because they were so overconfident and not used to fighting a force that had such radically different doctrine and technology.
it treated the star destroyers as tough to take down heavily armored behemoths that had inaccurate manually crew served plasma weapons that individually didn’t pack a huge punch.
I’d love a link to that fic, if you ever come across it again.
i’ll try to dig around. this was an OLD story. pre-AO3 and even pre fanfic.net
pretty sure it was on it’s own webpage