Are you kidding me? The Enterprise encounters god-like beings on a regular basis, and still manages to subsist after all those episodes, only having lost a very large bunch of its low-ranked crew members. The death star would easily be dealt with in a single episode (but if possible without killing all the people living on the death star, as that would be super cruel).
The drive into the hole. The camera is now sideways, so that the background is pure black and it looks like a turn-based battle scene of some rpg game. They are standing on the left and are awaiting enemies.
The first panel is popular media, not computer scientists.
The computer scientist would write papers about how they adapted principles of the alien technology to our stuff.