Star Wars or Star Trek?
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Star Wars or Star Trek?
In general, the whole franchise, concept, characters, TV series, films and expanded universe.
Simple question. But simple answer . . ?
Simple question. But simple answer . . ?
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I'm fond of both, although my Star Trek fondness is erratic, some films I really dig 'First Contact', 'Wrath of Khan' and 'The Voyage Home'. Certain episodes of 'DS9' and the theme tune of 'Voyager' which is very pleasant.
Likewise my fondness for 'Star Wars' doesn't stretch far beyond the original trilogy and segments of the prequels, although the original 'Clone Wars' cartoon was awesome, the non-CG job, can't bring myself to watch this new fangled CG stuff.
'Space Above and Beyond' anyone remember that? Flawed creature design aside (basically humanoids in really big helmets) it had pretty space ships.
I'm fond of both, although my Star Trek fondness is erratic, some films I really dig 'First Contact', 'Wrath of Khan' and 'The Voyage Home'. Certain episodes of 'DS9' and the theme tune of 'Voyager' which is very pleasant.
Likewise my fondness for 'Star Wars' doesn't stretch far beyond the original trilogy and segments of the prequels, although the original 'Clone Wars' cartoon was awesome, the non-CG job, can't bring myself to watch this new fangled CG stuff.
'Space Above and Beyond' anyone remember that? Flawed creature design aside (basically humanoids in really big helmets) it had pretty space ships.
Guh.
Parts of Star Trek make me want to weep, tbh. The acting hurt my eyeballs. But I grew up watching TNG and the original Trek, so I can stand it, and even know what's going on when. Just don't make me watch Voyager and everything will be peachy.
Star Wars is okay, but that was more the ex's thing. I liked the toys from the 90's. Will watch the odd movie if it's on TV and I don't have anything else to do.
Parts of Star Trek make me want to weep, tbh. The acting hurt my eyeballs. But I grew up watching TNG and the original Trek, so I can stand it, and even know what's going on when. Just don't make me watch Voyager and everything will be peachy.
Star Wars is okay, but that was more the ex's thing. I liked the toys from the 90's. Will watch the odd movie if it's on TV and I don't have anything else to do.
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It's an awesome series, just recently watched it again.Wildrider wrote:'Space Above and Beyond' anyone remember that? Flawed creature design aside (basically humanoids in really big helmets) it had pretty space ships.
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Star wars hands down for me. Speaking mainly of the original Trilogy here, although I do like some of the expanded fiction comics and consider KOTOR to be one of the best video games of all time. As a matter of a fact I think the storyline in KOTOR I & II far exceeds the prequel movies' scripts and acting.
Star Trek is just something I've never really gotten into all that much, it just doesn't have the same kind of action and excitement as Star Wars. I will admit to liking a few of the movies, and did watch most of Voyager, but outside that, I never could get into the original Trek series very much. Overall it seems too boring for me.
I love the original Star Wars Trilogy, and never turn down watching a film of it, if it happens to be on TV. I can live without the prequels though. The Clone Wars animated series was pretty enjoyable for me though, and the CGI show was far better than the prequel movies as well, at least what I've seen of it (all of season 1).
Star Trek is just something I've never really gotten into all that much, it just doesn't have the same kind of action and excitement as Star Wars. I will admit to liking a few of the movies, and did watch most of Voyager, but outside that, I never could get into the original Trek series very much. Overall it seems too boring for me.
I love the original Star Wars Trilogy, and never turn down watching a film of it, if it happens to be on TV. I can live without the prequels though. The Clone Wars animated series was pretty enjoyable for me though, and the CGI show was far better than the prequel movies as well, at least what I've seen of it (all of season 1).
Hmmmmm?
Have to go with Trek. Sure, you can watch the Star Wars flicks in one long session but as a sample of scifi SW is in the end just one story.
Trek, OTOH, is many stories with numerable ships ... some good, some very very bad (Spock's Brain anyone?) and with it a greater diversity of content and even subtext.
Have to go with Trek. Sure, you can watch the Star Wars flicks in one long session but as a sample of scifi SW is in the end just one story.
Trek, OTOH, is many stories with numerable ships ... some good, some very very bad (Spock's Brain anyone?) and with it a greater diversity of content and even subtext.
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Stopping just briefly to point out that only four of the eleven Trek films were released in the 80's (though if we're only counting "proper" Star Wars films then that would be an 80's franchise mostly)...Cliffjumper wrote:Blake's 7. Seriously. Star Wars and Star Trek are both respectable 1980s movie franchises, bank holiday material like... Back to the Future, or Ghostbusters. But neither are anything worth getting frothing about.
Then I'd go for Star Trek. Mainly because it is more versatile than Star Wars is. All of the main Wars fiction is about rebelling against the Empire. Star Trek just has a mandate of :"Hey, lets go out there and see what we find", and that makes for a lot more interesting storytelling. It can do the big war stuff, or the character based stuff, or just taking an interesting SF idea and knocking it about for an hour (The Next Generation was espeically good at that, it gets props for doing a Groundhog Day episode before Groundhog Day).
Though the proviso is I'm only counting the four good versions of Star Trek- Original, TNG, Deep Space nice and the recent film. Voyager and Enterprise can go die alone in a corner.
EDIT: And just to be completely clear, City on the Edge of Forever is not just better than any Star Wars film, it's one of the best bits of drama ever made in any genre and media EVER, if you're not crying at the end you're dead.
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- Summerhayes
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I'm actually surprised by how even the split is.
I was tempted to put a "neither" or "equal" option but I hate giving people an easy out. Though I was gonna put an MLP option and I now regret not doing so . . .
For me, its Trek for a couple of reasons. For one, its a future with a sense of Science Fiction, and its much easier to imagine that being the real world some day. Star Wars feels more like a fantasy to me, albeit one that happens to have space ships. (which is basically what Lucas was going for, I guess . . .)
And as everyone else on this side has said, there is infinite variety in Star Trek. Every series (Enterprise can go stick its head in a hole, but I'm not too hateful of Voyager because it had Howling Mad Murdoch and the Borg) feels like a legitimate extension of the same universe. Whereas with Star Wars, for me it feels like 3 nice little films from the 80s, which I'll admit are masterpieces, and then a load of not-especially-relevent spin-off material.
But it does have lightsabres . . .
I was tempted to put a "neither" or "equal" option but I hate giving people an easy out. Though I was gonna put an MLP option and I now regret not doing so . . .
For me, its Trek for a couple of reasons. For one, its a future with a sense of Science Fiction, and its much easier to imagine that being the real world some day. Star Wars feels more like a fantasy to me, albeit one that happens to have space ships. (which is basically what Lucas was going for, I guess . . .)
And as everyone else on this side has said, there is infinite variety in Star Trek. Every series (Enterprise can go stick its head in a hole, but I'm not too hateful of Voyager because it had Howling Mad Murdoch and the Borg) feels like a legitimate extension of the same universe. Whereas with Star Wars, for me it feels like 3 nice little films from the 80s, which I'll admit are masterpieces, and then a load of not-especially-relevent spin-off material.
But it does have lightsabres . . .
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But only 2 of the 6 Star Wars films were released in the 80's too.inflatable dalek wrote:Stopping just briefly to point out that only four of the eleven Trek films were released in the 80's (though if we're only counting "proper" Star Wars films then that would be an 80's franchise mostly)...
Then I'd go for Star Trek. Mainly because it is more versatile than Star Wars is. All of the main Wars fiction is about rebelling against the Empire. Star Trek just has a mandate of :"Hey, lets go out there and see what we find", and that makes for a lot more interesting storytelling. It can do the big war stuff, or the character based stuff, or just taking an interesting SF idea and knocking it about for an hour (The Next Generation was espeically good at that, it gets props for doing a Groundhog Day episode before Groundhog Day).
Though the proviso is I'm only counting the four good versions of Star Trek- Original, TNG, Deep Space nice and the recent film. Voyager and Enterprise can go die alone in a corner.
EDIT: And just to be completely clear, City on the Edge of Forever is not just better than any Star Wars film, it's one of the best bits of drama ever made in any genre and media EVER, if you're not crying at the end you're dead.[/QUOTE]