Star Wars / Star Trek Showdown - rough draft

An animation I am working on where a Star Destroyer and the Enterprise D meetup for a showdown via wormhole, who will win?

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Film & Animation

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• star
• wars
• trek
• space
• battle

[millenniumfalsehood]

If I may, how about making one or the other off-axis? I get irritated at how most meetings in space take place as if it were at sea, when there's no up or down in space.

It would probably be more dramatic than the way you have it here.

[matus1976]

Well, even at sea ships will usually face their fighting profile toward their opponent, this presents a lower profile to the opponent and focuses their best armament toward their enemy. Even if they initially met off axis, they would orient their most armed face toward the opponent.

[millenniumfalsehood]

True, but I was referring to how the animation assumed that the ships would already be in perfect alignment. If the ISD was twisted a few degrees initially, then rotated to align with the Ent-D, it would probably be much more dramatic and would address a failing that I see in most sci-fi.

I would have said the above, but I was heading out and didn't finish my thought properly.

[matus1976]

In general I agree with your point, in this case I was working off the idea that they both aligned with respect to the 'wormhole' surface - perpendicular to it. However this was just a preliminary design, I want to change the 'wormhole' to a spherical 3dimensional one, I think I'll intergrate your suggestion then and have the SD some in a little off axis, and make a small slow turn to orient to the EntD.

[droidekabakugan1986]

The Star Destroyers look fabulous, but the Enterprise-D wasn't all blocky like that. She was pretty and curvaceous, like a stripper.

[matus1976]

This is just a low poly mock up, check out my current progress videos for the hi-res versions

[74205Defiant]

1:40 looks like a super giant stargate

[millenniumfalsehood]

I'm not sure the blast they stopped was equivalent to 1/9 the Death Star's main cannon blast. For one thing, the 8472 ships apparently need an amplifier array to increase the power of their main weapons, so each individual ship doesn't have 1/9 the power of the Death Star. Otherwise why use the center ship at all instead of just firing on the same spot?

For another thing, the Death Star's blast is *much* more violent and destructive than the 8472 blast.

[fixer1972]

looks like a super stargate from sg-1 to me

[CobaltX07]

Yes, they would probably try to capture the ship, at least if one of the more competent leaders was in charge. I still think they would require 2 shots or a volley to destroy the ship though. Voyager's shields held against one Species 8472 bioship shot before failing, which is roughly 1/9 the Death Star's superlaser, so it seems Fed shields always stop whatever was fired at them first and then fail.

[matus1976]

both are modeled to their published specifications exactly.