USS Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer!
A very old argument Trekkies try to win through the power of trivia. I am such a Trekkie...
FACT: Star Destroyers are equipped with lasers.
FACT: "The Outrageous Okona" states that lasers cannot punch through the Enterprise's shields.
FTW: Duh.
The above mash-up is more generous, but comes to the same conclusion.
A very old argument Trekkies try to win through the power of trivia. I am such a Trekkie...
FACT: Star Destroyers are equipped with lasers.
FACT: "The Outrageous Okona" states that lasers cannot punch through the Enterprise's shields.
FTW: Duh.
The above mash-up is more generous, but comes to the same conclusion.
Comments
Fans are funny things.
But that's hardly sporting.
The TIE Fighters aren't a threat themselves, they're designed mainly to escort the TIE Bombers, which are designed as anti-capital-ship weapons with shield-depleting ION cannons and massively destructive torpedoes.
The main tech that the Enterprise has that the SD doesn't is the transporter, but that's of limited use here, since even the capital ships in that Star Wars universe tend to be fantastically fragile, even brittle, once their shields are down anyhow.
Quite possibly an even matchup here.
You don't see carrier-like capital ships in Trek, probably due to budgets at first and tradition later. Is there a convincing in-universe explanation of why that model doesn't work?
Overpowered starships may also explain why the computer consoles can apparently electrocute you.
Regarding support craft, there might be a size issue. The Galaxy-class is pretty much the largest of the TV Starfleet ships, and most Imperial ships are bigger. There's also the question of why they have them. The support craft in Star Wars are usually designed to shoot and blow stuff up. That's obviously not the case in Star Trek, so there's no real need to have them.
I'd agree that the Death Star could probably blow the Enterprise apart, since it's highly unlikely that their shields can withstand something designed to blow up a planet in one hit. Of course, we don't really know the comparison between the Death Star weapons and a Star Destroyer. We also know that the Defiant has enough power to turn a planet to "cinder" (according to Broken Link). So I'd suggest that ST ships are probably a bit stronger weapon wise.
Star Wars does have better music though.
Set the battle in a random exotic particle cloud that stops that automated targeting (or let the Empire find a stash of Tetrion Particle paint beforehand), though, and the Federation ship is helpless, since it'll probably take them a few hours just to re-engineer the controls to where manual firing is even possible...