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dreadgeek · 11-29-2010, 12:59 PM

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.

11-29-2010, 12:59 PM	#8
dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,844 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	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 massacceleration be with you. __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community.* "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)