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

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And how did that work out in Vietnam?

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Uh, we killed a lot more of them than they killed of us?

We didn't lose the Vietnam war because of inferior technology.




Star Trek DS9 SPOILERSSSS

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Not only that, but Starfleet itself is small. In Kirk's era, he said there were only 12 "starships" - ships like the Enterprise - and they are widely scattered. In Star Trek The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier, the Enterprise was the only earth ship that could be spared for the mission. In the Search For Spock, the Excelsior was the only earth ship the Enterprise had to worry about escapin

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That always bothered me too. But in DS9 The Federation finds itself in an all out war and they have multiple fleets with over 100 ships each.