That is actually a pretty good question. It would make a great thread. Anybody interested? (I don’t want to hijack this one).
Let us not forget that the Star Trek characters are just as over-the-top in their capabilities as their superheroic counterparts.
Star Sapphires in their stripperiffic outfits would be no match for the James T Kirk. I mean, seriously.
And Scotty (or other Star Trek engineers) come up with just as many improbably technobabbled marvels as Mr. Fantastic. Polarities would be reversing right, left, and center.
And I shudder to think of the carnage that could ensue from a quip-off between Spider-Man, McCoy, and Spock.
I judge it conceivable that Data & Geordi could suss out that Hal’s ring is vulnerable to yellow, and I expect Kyle or Guy might do something foolish in the battle. But the only way the Enterprise has a prayer against a pissed-off Alan Scott is if the battle starts 23 hours & 50 minutes after his last ring charge and he doesn’t have his battery at hand.
Use this thread if you like.
Whoosh (there are actually a couple of very long threads devoted to this subject).
Besides, everybody knows the answer: Kirk is Vader’s bitch.
Ah. I interpreted the post as wondering how all the super heroes would stack up against a Star Destroyer.
Then the joke is on me
The Enterprises (all but the NX) have shields, and a Star Trek shield might be a fair approximation for Promethium or Adamantium. Many super groupings might have no way to enter the ship.
Telepaths could mind control a way in, Shadowcat could probably pass through and disrupt the Enterprise’s mainframe. Thor or Storm in a space suit might be able to call up something similar to the Mutara Nebula and render shields and sensors useless.
If inside the ship, any super team is going to be at a huge advantage unless the ship captain decides to do some un-Star Trekky stuff. Like flood the halls with poison, use high frequency sound to knock out the team or overstress the artificial gravity.
So, I’d say it depends on the team make up, and the writer.
Most of them, I’d agree (most of the more powerful X-Men have powers that wouldn’t work in space), but couldn’t Professor X take them all out single-mindedly? Assuming, of course, that his ethics allow it.
Didn’t Kirk beat God?
I wouldn’t give a plugged nickel for the Avenger or the JLA against a ripped-shirt Kirk.
Wouldn’t Prof. X hesitate for a fatal moment when he laid eyes on Capt. Picard?
http://www.freewebs.com/xfreak0310/home%20page.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/JeanLucPicard.jpg/250px-JeanLucPicard.jpg
That’s an interesting question (for, uh, certain values of interesting) – does weather control extend to space weather?
So, you mean, if it’s convenient?
Oh, and… Patrick Stewart doesn’t age. What’s up with that?
I think Storm’s power is better described as control of ambient energy fields. It’s been suggested in canon that she can manipulate radiation in space; she simply doesn’t bother when she’s on a planet because she’s very skilled at screwing with the weather.
That said, the Enterprise owns her until they make the mistake of beaming her aboard.
Way, waaay back in the Claremont days, before Storm had a mohawk even, the X-Men went into space against the [del]Xenomorphs[/del] Brood. Storm ended up befriending some space-whales, and we discovered that her weather powers did, in fact, work in space.
Solar wind.
… What? I already said “Claremont” and “space-whales”, and you were expecting what was to follow would make sense?
That’s exactly the incident I was thinking of; the space whales were called the Acanti. (God, that story rocked; it’s much better than it sounds.) As I recall it, Storm’s specific thought process during the battle was that she was forced to rely only on her lightning, whereas she would have preferred to toss around radiation bolts too; but she was recuperating from massive injuries and didn’t have the juice. Her phrasing was confident enough that it was clear she knew she could do it and how to do it. I can easily she her and Xavier working on it in the Danger Room.
Four way fight, Enterprise D vs Vader’s Star Destroyer vs a fully stocked and repaired Battlestar Galactica vs Batman, who wins?
Batman is only 50% prepared, btw.
Multi-way fights always come down to politics, who’s willing to temporarily ally with whom and who’s willing to stab whom in the back. If the combatants all know each others’ backstories, then the other three will all gang up on the Star Destroyer, Vader being, as tagonists go, an rather than pro. From there, Batman will probably come up with some ruse to convince Picard and Adama that the other is not to be trusted, and sit on the sidelines while they duke it out, intervening only when one of them starts to get the upper hand.
In my viewing, an ST shield is a fair approximation of a rusty colander.
Vader.