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

I will use a side by side comparison of analogous technologies and capabilities. SpeedMany Star Wars fans will claim that Star Wars ships are faster. I don't know where they get this idea but it is simply false. In A New Hope Obi Wan Claims that the Millennium Falcon can make “point five past light speed”. And that is supposed to be fast? In Star Trek, Warp 1 is light speed and Enterprise in the series Enterprise can go warp 5 and the Enterprise in The Original series can go much faster; the Millennium Falcon would be slow in the Star Trek Universe as Warp 1 is the same as light speed [1] It would likely be brought up that in the Star Wars Galaxy traversing the Galaxy takes a matter of hours to days while in Star Trek it takes at least decades to cross a quarter of the Galaxy, even by the time of Voyager it takes 75 years. The reason for that is that the Star Wars Galaxy must be a micro Galaxy while Star Trek takes place in our own Milky Way. This difference is all the more radical when you consider in Enterprise, humans had only had warp capabilities for less than 100 years, and yet they were already better than the Star Wars Universe which had had interplanetary travel for at least 1000 Generations. Obi Wan Mentions that the Jedi were guardians of the Galaxy for over 1000 generations, that's the Galaxy not a single planet, which means they made very little progress in all that time, and we can assume a generation is between and 20,000 and 40,000 years. This fact becomes important for much of the rest of my debate. The Star Trek civilization has been space faring for longer yet has made very little progress when compared to the Federation and most of the other civilizations in Star Trek. Firepower. When it comes to personal firepower Star Trek wins there too, look at the damage a phaser does when compared to a blaster. What about a lightsaber you ask? A long distance weapon is always superior to a weapon you must fight up close but I guess the Klingon Bat'leth would be comparable, true you could probably cut through the Bat'leth with a lightsaber, but this would only be a concern if when Klingons are challenged to an honorable dual and they were dumb enough to let a Jedi use his lightsaber. Phasers have a setting that can ultimately vaporize while Blasters have no such option. A phaser can also fire a steady stream while a blaster shoots in bursts. True you're dead either way at least if your human, some aliens may need the extra power. Blasters are also bulky compared the the phaser, which can be a strategic disadvantage. Although there are a number of variants from pistol to riffle, even putting that into account the Blaster is in general bulkier. [2][3]There is the Death Star. When it comes to technology in Star Wars what is the Empire good at? Creating weapons of Mass destruction. I will grant you that at the time I have outlined (the Original Series) the Federation didn't have something with those capabilities. It took the Empire 20 years to build the first Death Star then less than four to get the Second one operational. However creating something that can destroy a planet pales in comparison to one that can create a planet, case in point, the Genesis device. At the same time the Genesis device does destroy everything around it. (see video) Furthermore the Federation is meant to be peaceful yet is able to make weapons that rival or even surpass those in Star Wars. Everyone seems shocked in the Return of the Jedi when the Death Star takes out a ship as in the Star Wars Universe just shooting at a ship does very little damage compared to Star Trek. Let's look at droids, humanoid droids like C3PO go back to at least the prequels. While we do see androids in the original series, a truly successful human droid really didn't come around in Star Trek until we see Data in the Next Generation, but again this is a matter of technological advancement, in the Star Wars Universe droid technology seems to be stagnant. C-3PO also serves the function of being a translator. This is not necessary in Star Trek as they have the Universal Translator which although incomplete in Enterprise still functions for most of the known races. [3] In terms of other Droids R2 units are essentially glorified Swiss army knives. Speaking of Swiss army knives that brings me to my next point, in Star Trek they have Tricorders. They are a very useful medical tool with many different functions. Some are more specialized like the medical tricorder. Perhaps R2 has some of these functions but it's not entirely analogous and again I will bring up the portability issue. They have holographic technology in the Star Wars Universe for broadcasting images before Star Trek, but Star trek then soon develops holograms independent of any person, and once again the Star Wars technology is stagnant. Transporters. Star Wars doesn't even have anything remotely similar so Star Trek is way ahead in this one. Obviously it can be argued they don't take place in the same time period as Enterprise and the Original series take place in the 22nd and 23rd century respectively while Star wars takes place a “long time ago” however the debate I on comparing the technologies seen on screen and Star Wars has stagnation with it's technology while Star Trek sees incredible progress. Overall Star Trek technology is more advanced and progresses at a much faster rate than that of Star Wars. I thank my opponent and look forward to next round. 1 . http://en.memory-alpha.org... . http://www.youtube.com... 2 . http://starwars.wikia.com... 3 . http://en.memory-alpha.org... 4 . http://en.memory-alpha.org...