Which ship would win a battle between the USS Enterprise (any version) and the Battlestar Galactica and why?
I’m a fan of Battlestar, but I’ll have to say that the Enterprise would easily handle the Galactica. 1) The Enterprise has superior protection. Shields. These can handle most forms of attack and could easily handle the projectiles and nukes that the Galactica fires. The Galactica doesn’t appear to have anything other than tough armor, which gets damaged from opposing fire and heavily damaged with nukes. 2) The Enterprise has superior range. It can engage enemy ships from tens of thousands of kilometers. So far, all the engagements we’ve seen from the Battlestar are at much closer ranges. 3) The Enterprise has superior weaponry. Phasers and Photon torpedoes. The Galactica has good weapons, but they do not compare to what the Enterprise is packing. 4) The Enterprise has superior speed. The Galactica can perform ‘jumps’, but these take time and calculation, they aren’t meant for fast maneuvering during a battle. The Enterprise, on the other hand, can manuever and fire a multiples of the s