In the case of the Enterprise, Capt Kirk has stated on the show that the Enterprise is capable of destroying an entire planet (ref “A Taste of Armagedon”?). We don’t know if that means in the Death Star way, or in the cinder ball way, but either way it means a dead planet. The Enterprise uses energy weapons with a virtually unlimited number of phaser shots. The photon torpedoes were assumed to be energy bolts until the The Wrath Of Khan depicted them as actual devices of limited quantity aboard ship. Galactica does have a nuclear missile arsenal of it’s own of unknown yield and unknown numbers of warheads. That means the Galactica has a limit to it’s nuclear attack capability. The Enterprise has taken a nuclear blast of unspecified yield at less than 100 meters with only circuit overloads and a few radiation burned crewmen in the episode “Balance of Terror.” In that episode, the Romulan ship also fired a torpedo that could destroy a Federation base located one mile deep on an asteroid made of “almost solid iron.” The Enterprise took a hit from that torpedo, although after the torpedo lost much of its power chasing the Enterprise. The Enterprise suffered no damage at all. The Galactica did take a nuclear missile hit of probable 50 kiloton yield (based on another scene where a Cylon Raider launched a 50Kt warhead at Colonial One) at what appeared to impact directly on the hull in the first episode, causing serious and extensive structural damage to Galactica. So far the shows are supporting the far superiority of Enterprise. Not to mention Warp speed beats hyper jump by far. Please bring up specifics from the shows that support your position. feelings and desires don’t count only “facts” from the shows matter.

To level the scale, that a .15 megaton nuke compaired to a 62.0 megaton Photon torpedo, or the reverse…, a 150 kiloton nuke vs. a 62,000 kiloton Photon Torp.

1 megaton is 1,000 kilotons! Photon Torpedos are waaay more powerful than BSG nukes! And, btw, the max yield of a Photon Torp. is 90 megatons, not 62 (1.5 kilograms of both matter & antimater. Basic physics/real-world math).

Here’s a link to a wiki about the largest nuke EVER detonated. It was a massive 50 megaton (a standard Photon Torpedo, dialed down to a 60% yield). The fireball itself was 33 kilometers in diameter!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

The Enterprise vs. Galactica combat report would be a short one.

“3000 kilometers away, out of range of their weapons, the Enterprise fired a Photon Torpedo at the Galactica. The Galactica’s point-defense weapons sucessfully detonated the torpedo 2-4 kilometers away from the ship. The massive size of the Galactica shielded about 1/4 of the structure from being completely destroyed in the explosion, but the shock wave sent the crushed remains of the vessel spinning off into space. No remaining life signs.”

final word:
ST vs BSG? this is no contest. YOu are pitching 24th century technology vs 1990ies nukes and guns? just because you attach a jump drive to an oil tanker , doesnt make it a fighter jet.
enterprise would not be hit by any weapons of BSG, it simply could not lock on. ST has teh best weapons lock sensors, and BSG could not escape. Phasers would tear the ship apart, slowly but surely.
raptors would do damage to enterprise, but be quickly disabled, since they are too slow to evade sensors.
finally, a boarding party with phasers beamed on the galactica would render this ship uncontrollable within 20 minutes.
the reason behind this, is that we might have a galactica spaceship in a couple of hundred years, the enterprise is about 500 years into the future (time and space manipulation requires such massive energy reserves and potential) – and the question is if that were ever possible.
so there is a 500 year technological span between ST, BORG, DS9 and the GALACTICA universe. That’s actually the charm of galactica, it is retro!…in essence today’s tech , played out in space.
remember also that enterprise has traveled the galaxy, encountered many many species for generations, and knows about space. galactica knows nothing. they travel lost, looking for earth. enterprise can go at will…
DATA beamed on board galactica with WORF , would take out the entire crew, most likely.
ANY civilization that can fabricate WARP drives, and control them, cotrols energy , mass and time, and can therefore build weapons that can desintegrate anything.

back to the israelis!.. the only thing they should be working on is their water supply and how to make friends with their enemies… this is a big world between USA, EU, China, JAPAN, and there’s just no time for the world to deal with a bunch of crazies in that region , who all combined are the size of LA and San Diego County combined.

Some links:
http://www.ditl.org/pagship.php?fedsovereign
http://www.ditl.org/pagship.php?feddanube

This is just wrong. 150 kilotons = 625000000000000 Joules, and 64 megatons = 267800000000000000 Joules. One megaton is 1000 bigger than one kiloton. So the Enterprise’s weapons are about 500 times better than BSG’s.