re: Star Wars vs. Star Trek in a battle for all the marbles...who wins?

The movies don't generally talk much about how the technology works, because it's fantasy not sci-fi. (Star Trek tries to be more sci-fi and so at least tries to give explanations. Where Star Wars tries in the movies it usually makes it worse) But there are plenty of official supplementary materials that do.

My father warned me that someday, somewhere, somehow, I would hear the words "Who would win between...?" He said that on that day, I must run away screaming or risk either going insane or being butchered by angry fanboys. So I will do precisely that, but before I go, I just want to note that 1) size doesn't really matter quite so much at the level of technology where something the circumference of a bowling ball can be packed with explosive potential to annihilate a city, and 2) the Death Star is, in the end, one of worst and most inefficient designs imaginable for outer space combat. It's like putting a single non-swiveling cannon on an aircraft carrier and trying to blow up a speed boat running circles around you. That, at least, should be kept in mind.

Depends on if this dude decides to intervene.

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he Enterprise crew has faced world-destroying powers before, and come out on top.

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yea because the story was written for the crew of the Enterprise. So if they would have lost the story would end and they wouldnt get to write more stories of the crew.

On the other hand the Star Wars story was written as the Empire being the bad guy. and in movies the bad guys loses.