Thinking About … The Millennium Falcon

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Anonymous

Obligatory point-out: A “parsec” is a measure of distance…not speed. Just like a light-year IS a measure of speed, but not time. That said, you’re absolutely right. If NCC-1701 is a European luxury sedan, then the ‘Falcon is a muscle car with a jacked-up ass, tacked-on spoiler, glasspacks, slicks and headers. And, of course, a secret compartment under a false bottom in the trunk what fer the smugglin’, and such.I guess it all boils down to taste, but really, who would YOU rather roll with? A crabby, emasculated Klingon, or effin’ Chewie? I mean, sure, either way, you’re forced to put up with a mincing, gold-skinned android as a tag-along, but come on. You know you wanna party with a Wookiee.
sasquatch

the ‘kessel run’ may have actually been something measured not in time, but the shortest possible distance. a navigational hazard course that requires getting as close as possible (or comfortable) with a set of obstacles that you wouldn’t want to touch.
Swaag

Enterprise or MF? I think it would come down to getting into Warp fastest. So as Captain, I’d have to say I’d probably go with “Make it So” over “Wookie…punch the phucking console a few times…and be quick about it!”nnThat being said, I’d park the MF in the shuttle bay for the moments when I needed my Beautiful Blue Bitch Magnet.
Michael

I don’t care who had the better ship because I’d rather have an Imperial Star Destroyer and as far as the ladies, Han Solo had one woman in all three movies while Captain Kirk tapped something in 24 of the 80 “missions”. Going by the numbers alone, Kirk “pulled more wool”, but he only had 24 “relationships” over the span of 80 missions which means that he was 30% effective in sending his little guys “to boldly go where no man has gone before,” whereas Han took the noble route and devoted his efforts to Leia throughout three “missions”, making him 3 1/3% more efficient than Kirk; but that was “A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…”
demasat

sasquatch speaks the truth – the trick of the Kessel run was not speed alone. The route is riddled with black holes that inhibit direct point A to point B travel. True badasses, such as Han Solo, pride themselves on making the run by travelling as close as possible to the black holes without being sucked in.
http://twitter.com/AmandaSo AmandaSo

As someone who actually makes money (albeit vestigially) off the Starship Enterprise, I do have to say that — the ship aside — Harrison Ford was way, WAY hotter than William Shatner ever dreamed of being. Ever. At any age.nnLet us pray. Amen.
Foak

That makes no sense, because he was bragging at the time about the speed of his ship not the daringness of his piloting