Technologically speaking, the Star Trek Universe is more advanced than the Star Wars Universe

RebuttalsSpeed My opponent has already tried to counter the claim I was going to make about the speed of Star Wars ships. It takes mere hours and days to traverse large swaths of space in Star Wars. In A New Hope the Millennium Falcon reaches Alderan from Tatooine in what seems like a few hours. Tatooine as we know is in the Outer Rim Territories. However, evidence suggests that the galaxy is not a microgalaxy as my opponent tries to argue. Some sources argue that the galaxy is standard in size, 120k lightyears across with 400 billion stars. [1] Also, it is a well known fact that the Republic/Empire do not have significant influence in the Outer Rim, if the galaxy was indeed as compact as my opponent wants us to believe it would seem that it would be easy for the Republic/Empire to dominate the galaxy when that is not the case. The Empire has a hard time finding the rebels and the Outer Rim remains rough and uncivilized which leads us to believe the galaxy is indeed of normal massive size. Hyperdrive in Star Wars appears to be much much faster than any propulsion in Star Trek. It would have taken Voyager 75 years to reach the Alpha Quadrant from the Gamma Quadrant. In The Empire Strikes Back Admiral Piett says: "If the Millennium Falcon went into light-speed, it'll be on the other side of the galaxy by now. " [2]Even if we assume that the Star Wars galaxy is "micro", say 10,000 light years across (10% of the Milky Way) the Millennium Falcon could still traverse half in a matter of an hour or two meaning it can travel at ~5,000 light years an hour. Much, much faster than anything in Star Trek and more indicative of the travel times seen in the movies. Firepower My opponents main argument here is that phasers shoot in a continued stream (which naturally would use more energy mind you) and are not as "bulky" as blasters. In Star Wars we see much more diversity of weapons than in Star Trek. In Star Trek we have the standard phaser and then photon torpedoes. In Star Wars we see blasters, turbolasers, the Death Star's planet destroying beam, sonic charges, sonic blasters, missiles and ion cannons. Each weapon serves a different role and is much more diverse than in Star Trek. Then there is the lightsaber which is not only one of the most badass weapons ever imagined but can deflect blaster (and assumingly phasers) beams as well as cut through solid steel and other hard materials. If we look at the lightsabers cutting ability (as when they melted the blast doors of the Trade Federation capital ship in The Phantom Menace) and the planet destroying ability of the Death Star simple phasers begin to look boring and ineffective. Droids, Holograms and TransportersWhen we look at the technology of droids, my opponent points out one special example of a droid in Star Trek in the form of Data. However, if we look at droid tech over all we see that there is much greater proliferation of droids in the Star Wars universe. Some of them have full personalities but they are everywhere and they are all mostly intelligent and independent. There are far, far more droids in Star Wars serving all sorts of purposes which shows that droid tech is much easier and more accessible in Star Wars than in Star Trek. There were entire armies of intelligent droids in Star Wars, worker droids, interpreter droids, computer oriented droids. In Star Trek we just see Data, one android. Hologram technology in Star Trek seems to fill the void that is left by the clear absence of the proliferation of droids. Droids seem much more practical than holograms. They don't need hologram emitters, a constant external power source or a large computer bank to run them, they are portable and accessible at all times. Star Trek uses holograms because they don't have the droid power that Star Wars has. Star Wars rightly uses holograms for mainly communication because they have droids to perform the other functions that holograms seem to do in Star Trek. In Star Wars there is no transporters device like in Star Trek no. But do they need it as much? Star Wars ships are much much faster (as I have demonstrated) and therefore direct transportation is not needed as much. Plus, transporters seem to have a lot of issues. They are easily disturbed and interfered by atmospheric disturbances and other anomalies making the transporter unusable in many situations. Star Wars does not have this problem. Rarely did we see anyone stuck, stranded or blended together due to shuttle craft. ArgumentsConstructionThe Star Wars universe seems to be much more adept at construction than the Star Trek universe. Star Wars hosts much much larger ships than in Star Trek, the Super Star Destroyer and Star Destroyers, Death Star, Mon Calamari cruisers are all massive. The standard Star Destroyer was a mile long while the Super Star Destroyer was 19km long. [3] And the Republic/Empire churned out hundreds of these ships. The Star Wars universe also boasts construction feats such as Corucant, a planet completely covered in cityscape, on Naboo there are underwater dome cities protected by energy fields while Bespin saw a floating colony situated above a gas giant. All of these construction feats blow the Star Trek universe out of the water in terms of size, proliferation and advancement. Energy and PropulsionIt is well known that the Star Trek universe is powered by anti-matter warp cores and it is just as well known that these warp cores are finicky and hard to manage. You don't hear anything about propulsion or energy in Star Wars. Why? Because obviously it has become so standard that it requires no maintenance or attention. The warp cores of Star Trek must be kept stable, insulated, unbreached, fueled etc. causing endless hassle for the crews of various ships throughout the series. Star Wars has no such problem. Save for damage we see no problems with the engines or power sources of any ship which to me speaks volumes about the tech involved. ConclusionMy opponent put out good points but they seem to have been countered. Even in a microuniverse Star Wars ships are much faster than Star Trek ships, they are not plagued by the problems and propulsion issues of a pesky warp core and they can zip around the galaxy in hours or days. Star Wars boasts much more weapons of great diversity and purpose from the legendary lightsaber (which was quite effective in all situations) to the Death Star's planet destroying beam the firepower in Star Wars seems to be greater as well. There is a high proliferation of useful independent droids in Star Wars as well as holograms whereas Star Trek only has holograms save for a few special examples of extraordinary androids. Construction seems to be much larger and more proliferated as well. Overall the tech in Star Wars seems to be of a similar or higher level than in Star Trek. [1] . http://starwars.wikia.com...[2] . http://www.ssonlineuniverse.net...[3] . http://en.wikipedia.org...