This feels like a bit of a straw-man. In my youthful nonsensical cross-franchise pissing-match days, we pitted the Enterprise versus a Star Destroyer, or at least some other capital ship.
Unless you were asking which one was cooler, in which case the Falcon wins every day and twice on Sunday.
The millennium falcon is shit even in universe
You came in THAT thing??
In Star Trek, their run-of-the-mill, rarely discussed deflector is doing way more work than anything in the Star Wars universe. The one exception is the world-ender planet lasers which have been a big plot point in too many films and STILL have no plausible means to exist IN THEIR OwN UNIVERSE!
The Falcon is a corvette and the Enterprise is something like a cruiser or a battleship, we're talking apples and oranges here
This is like asking "Who would win in a fight, a submarine or a jet?"
The two combat styles aren't comparable. Star Trek is based on naval battles, in fact, IMHO, the very best OG Trek episode, "Balance of Terror" was based on a WWII set submarine combat novel and movie called "The Enemy Below":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below
Lucas specifically wanted Star Wars to emulate air combat and dogfights.
Not so much a vintage van as a vintage semi-trailer truck.
I don't think vintage van is apt.
I think I'd go more with the something like a juiced up truck, or maybe hummer.
However, you could make the more apt comparison by sticking with ships.
The falcon was a smugglers' ship, so it would be more like one of those fast cigarette boats drug runners use (or used to at least) rather than a car at all.
What are you saying?
The crossbow guy shoots 1 out of every 10 times on target! Can the Enterprise to better than that? Do they have something like targeting computers that hit every time?
But well, I have only ever seen people asking about the Enterprise against the Death Star or the Enterprise against a destroyer. On both cases the Enterprise can destroy the ships without even getting in their ranges, of course, but it's more than a pair of smugglers.
Technically the Falcon is much more like an 18-wheeler than a van. It is a cargo pusher/hauler, by design.
But still, the comparison is apt.
Like other commenters pointed out Star Wars is a universe in decline whereas Star Trek is constantly improving. OG Star Trek would be somewhat comparable to the Star Wars Universe minus the teleporters which would be an unbelievable advantage.
I think an OG Star Trek ship the same size as the falcon would be a battle that could go either way. Obviously a ship like the Enterprise is so much larger it wouldn't be a fair fight.
The better debate would be between a Star Destroyer and the Enterprise. I feel like that comparison would be fairer.
If you're going to compare the Millennium Falcon to anything, it would likely be a runabout or Delta Flyer.
Who wants to burst the bubbles of Star Wars fans?
The Millennium Falcon could not stand up against any of the Star Trek Hero-ships. None of them. Zero, Zultch, Neoni.
In fact, every single ship on this list except for maybe the NX01 wouldn't even need to fire a shot because they could just get a transporter lock, and teleport everyone off the ship and then grab it with a tractor beam. Everyone. Han, Chewie, Luke, Leia, Finn, Poe, Rei, everyone. They can be beamed directly to the Brig to make sure they don't do anything stupid, and whoever the captain is (I'm going for Pike because he's my favourite) can some down and be all "Hey, you were firing at my ship with a peashooter, don't worry, it's unharmed, strange ship, doesn't have Warp or shields or anything. You all seem human except for the big guy there, we don't have your species in our database. Want a drink of something? The replicator can make anything you'd like."
It's like asking if some random hick with a pickup truck, an AR-15 and a few pipe bombs could take on a fully trained Roman charioteer with equipment forged by the finest craftsmen in the Empire.
M-M-Moopsy.
Why are people still arguing in the comments. Falcon would be toast before they’d got someone to the turrets.
We look for things, things to pay the Hutt.
What this analysis forgets is one simple fact:
Han shoots first.
(He still loses most matches but I think NX-01 would not win)
the falcon took on worse and had no problems.
... but but but he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs or something maaaaan
This basically happened. It's TNG 2x01, "The Outrageous Okona." Some schmuck in a jumped-up cargo shuttle harasses the Enterprise, and Riker asks, 'can lasers even hit us?'
The pilot is a chauvanistic brigand, on the run, having dumped his cargo... wearing a white shirt and dark vest. It is genuinely surprising Memory Alpha does not explicitly call this a Han Solo expy.
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I'm a Trekkie though and through, but I still think the Millenium Falcon wins that battle in a simple one on one.
Well if you put it that way... Weedman and Crossbro let's go bay-bee!!
Maybe, but if it was a movie who would you cheer for, the massively overpowered enterprise just blowing up a space minivan or the David vs Goliath battle where two friends with a crossbow takes on a US Space ship and triumphantly makes the impossible possible
I mean, the Millennium Falcon and the Defiant would make for a good scrap, not sure if even that's too much of a mismatch.
Maybe the Millennium Falcon Vs the Delta Flyer.
It's all just a big misunderstanding!
Wouldn't the Enterprise just beam them directly to the brig?
But does the enterprise dump its trash?
I think a better match is Enterprise vs Star Destroyed.
Only one of these vessels has done the Kessel run in 7 parsecs
Honestly an X-Wing would likely fare better than the Falcon. Proton torpedoes, and small enough to evade their turbo lasers phasers
So you think the same as we do, then? The weedman in the vintage van it is, then.
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