Star Wars v.s. Star Trek
 

I kept hearing for the longest time from different people
"Star Wars was the best!!"
"Star Trek Rulez!"

And then there's the subdivisions...

"The early 3 were better than the new Star Wars Pre-quels"

"Picard could kick Kirks ass with his arm tied behind his back !!...."

"Janeway was the Ultimate Feminist !!"

And then there's those that Live to cosplay {I won't touch that part}

I grew up in a "House Divided", My "sperm Donor" was a Trekker, I discovered years later that I could insult him with "trekkie"{don't ask...}
My mother's a die-hard Fan of Star Wars, she's slightly picky of the prequels, however, she claims they answer maybe 1 or 2 curiosities she had..
She thinks jar jar binks is beyond Stupid.

Me? I like 'em both...
Each have their pro's and Cons..
Although, I do have a preference {in star trek category} for Deep Space 9 + Enterprise {Enterprise delves into Lots of Vulcan subjects + DS9 has nifty "Culture" subject*My fave are Dominion/Changelings*}..
As for Star Wars, all of 'em were cool.
The Luke Skywalker/Leia thing kinda grossed me, but it was fixed {thankfully}..
And yes, it took me forever to grasp it all {closed captioning}
So, Which is Your Favorite??
Why?...

:sunglass:

Star Trek....
 

Dune.

Though, I love the outfits of the alien ladies Kirk romanced in the original Star Trek, if I must follow the rules :)

Star Treck rules..I hardly never missed a show,some charaters were better than others in there interpatation of who they played so each gets his/her due.

My vote is for Star Trek, the original and Star Trek the Next Generation.

I do have very fond memories of viewing Star Wars a few times in the darkness of Grauman's Chinese Theater.

I love each for different reasons.

Star Wars is just THE best space-opera (and here I am talking ONLY of the first trilogy, the second trilogy was a travesty and Lucas should be ashamed of himself). Star Wars has the benefit of a world that is not exactly pristine. I love the moral ambiguity around Darth Vader and that the Dark Side of the Force isn't necessarily *evil*--more misguided and blind to consequence but not evil in the simplistic sense you normally see in Hollywood films.

Star Trek, on the other hand, gave us a very pretty future--no greed, the only violence came from outside the Federation, etc. Of the two, Star Trek seems the more *achievable* future since, strictly speaking, all of the tech in Star Trek is theoretically possible (yes, even the transporter and the warp drive).

That said, I think that Star Wars had better aliens. Some of the aliens in Star Wars are *actually* alien while the Star Trek aliens weren't really alien. One thing I'd really like to see is a portrayal of aliens that are truly Other. I understand that, up until very recently, aliens had to be people in suits or makeup. Now with CGI we can start seeing truly *alien* aliens instead of bilaterally symmetrical aliens. Imagine, if you will, an alien built on a cephalopod (octopus or squid) body and you start to get an idea of what it is I'm hoping to see in future sci-fi.

Cheers
Aj
ps. may the mass*acceleration be with you. :)

I'm firmly in camp Holy Trilogy, kids. Original Star Wars allll the way.

Although, I do have the hots for Data. I can't help it.

Star Trek hands down! Star Wars was/is ok but Star Trek is my favorite!

Original SW trilogy beats the original ST series hands down. However, the second SW trilogy pales compared to the original and next gen ST series.

I'd even be willing to give Lucas a mulligan on Episodes 1 - 3 given that episodes 4 -6 were SO good. But if he took the mulligan he'd have to do so on the condition of NO Jar-Jar Binks. None. Not even any member of his species! Oh and ditch the metachlorides.


Cheers
Aj

I've never seen, nor had any desire to see, a SW movie, so Star Trek it is!!

For quite awhile, I had no choice But to watch star trek {one of those fun-fun memories of my sperm donor, not!!}
He could never understand {or accept} why I had no clue what the show was going on about, however I did enjoy the Visuals, Uhura in particular....
Star Wars was the same, however, when Closed-Captioning became mainstream, That was the first thing I rented.
I loved the Bar/Promenade scenes of both star trek and star wars, whoopi goldberg was very cool, and actually Got me back into Star Trek...
My obsessions were Vulcan and Changeling, Anything to do with either one in depth had my Undivided Attentions...
Even the Books. :2butch:
My mother got me Obsessed with Ewoks though, I've stunned people with Details on Ewok society, Vulcans, Changelings, and sometimes Ferengi...:glasses:
I wasnt fond of Klingons..
I always felt it was a smack of Racism..
The storyline of Picard as a Borg also annoyed me...:angry:

As for "no metachlorians", you're stripping Star Wars of its very essence :blink:
There'd be no "Force", Dark or Jedi

Oh, and Tribbles Rawk !!!!
:happyjump:

We did just fine in the first three movies without any metachlorians. The Force was the Force. It had an effect on the weak-minded, those weren't the droids you were searching for and that was that. :)

As an aside, because I work around a bunch of geeks there are two phrases from the first movie we use constantly. The ubiquitous 'these aren't the droids you're looking for' and "but I wanted to go to Toschi station and pick up some power converters!" whenever an end-user wants something either ridiculous or technologically impossible. :)

Cheers
Aj
May the Mass*Acceleration be with you.

Power converters at a Toschi shoe store? :confused: