Weekend Open Forum: Star Wars or Star Trek?
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WangDangDoodle
Posts: 199 +70
I'm sorry, but that's a stupid question. Star Wars or Star Trek? What about Stargate? Hell, let's throw Farscape in there as well. It's all just good Sci-Fi! I remember when I was a kid, the other kids at school would get passionate about Star Wars vs Star Trek... like it's some kinda competition. I can't really put one above the other. There's good parts and bad parts in all of it.
hitech0101
Posts: 450 +36
Both franchises have good and bad parts. I would just like the franchises to put out great stuff rather than trying to drag it out.
p51d007
Posts: 3,926 +3,873
Star Trek TOS
I was 7 when they came on TV in the 60's...too bad the internet wasn't around back then.
All we could do was send snail mail, which didn't work. A flood of email would possibly
kept it on the air, but, in the same sense, perhaps if it stayed on the air a few more years,
it wouldn't have had the impact of today.
Star Wars is ok, but, personally, it's no Star Trek.
I was 7 when they came on TV in the 60's...too bad the internet wasn't around back then.
All we could do was send snail mail, which didn't work. A flood of email would possibly
kept it on the air, but, in the same sense, perhaps if it stayed on the air a few more years,
it wouldn't have had the impact of today.
Star Wars is ok, but, personally, it's no Star Trek.
cliffordcooley
Posts: 13,141 +6,441
I take it you do not enjoy movies at all, because then you would think you do not have a life!
Railman
Posts: 708 +100
I am not quite sure what the Belfast Association of Rock climbers & Fell runners (BARF) has to do with ST and SW?
dividebyzero
Posts: 4,840 +1,271
Because Internet. Therefore everything should be ranked. I fully expect another site to trump TS and publish an article "Ten Science Fiction shows that will make you age faster".
I know what you mean! redneck hooks up with and impregnates a non-blood relative. I guess that's why it's called science fiction.
ypsylon
Posts: 525 +548
Well I ask myself same thing over and over. So including all series I like:
DS9=B5/SG-Atlantis/SG-1+remaining Trek series/SW (it has good points - Thrawn, gargantuan ships, Dark Empire, Vader but in the end far too much fantasy idiocies & supposedly good vs supposedly evil stuff when both sides are equally bad and mass murderers are on both sides).
Hate to the core new Jar Jar Abrams Trek, let it burn....
DS9=B5/SG-Atlantis/SG-1+remaining Trek series/SW (it has good points - Thrawn, gargantuan ships, Dark Empire, Vader but in the end far too much fantasy idiocies & supposedly good vs supposedly evil stuff when both sides are equally bad and mass murderers are on both sides).
Hate to the core new Jar Jar Abrams Trek, let it burn....
captaincranky
Posts: 19,667 +8,802
In spite of that, it's rumored that they still use separate outhouses and lunch counters.
After the cancellation of Farscape, it's also rumored that Claudia Black, when asked, "what's next for you", replied, "well I'm far too butch to join the Village People, so maybe I'll train for Ultimate fighting"!
captaincranky
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I've watched Star Trek since it first started in Australia. I do see the Star War movies but I prefer the Star Trek world.
captaincranky
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The consequence of too much hype, and not enough experience to back it up, are why abstinence until marriage, and virgin brides are such anti-climaxes. Life is an anticlimax in general, hence the need to invent religion, (as well as sci-fi).
Patrick Stewart as "Picard" was really overbearing in STNG.
Despite the fact Scott Bacula can't act to save his life, perhaps even failing on his personal recognizance, I liked Star Trek Enterprise as well.
I'm curious to see if the new N.C.I.S. spin off, "N.C.I.S: New Orleans", with Bacula in the lead role, floats or sinks.
Change that to read, "the first four seasons of Andromeda", were great, and we'll be on the same page. Season 5 was a complete abomination. That's when the "dear one", Kevin Sorbo as "Hercules in Space's" ego got the very best of him, and the writing staff must have digressed to getting their ideas from overdosing on coke and weed.
dividebyzero
Posts: 4,840 +1,271
Justin Beiber is too butch for the Village People. Having said that Claudia's look tends to polarize the SF geek community. Personally I don't mind her look - the set of choppers are a little distracting, but much less so than Summer Glau's five
Both of them got drafted into Stargate to boost the ratings after Richard Dean Anderson left. Stargate SG1, if I remember correctly, did a Farscape homage in one of their episodes I think.
And back to Star Trek and Star Wars...
captaincranky
Posts: 19,667 +8,802
"Live long and prosper" as Star Trek's Mr. Spock used to say. Or as I say, "Claudia Black over Summer Glau, most illogical".
I tried to link images of the African Buffalo for comparison's sake, but got locked out by copyright restrictions.
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cliffordcooley
Posts: 13,141 +6,441
And I would bet you are even further from being perfect, but that doesn't shut you up. I've lost count of the times I have seen you degrade someones appearance, a virtue of which there is no control. You are highly disrespectful!
dividebyzero
Posts: 4,840 +1,271
You clearly have learned nothing Grasshopper. Devise a poll for Summer Glau or Claudia Black, and (judging by this thread and virtually every poll on the net) I'd guarantee most people would relegate both behind their fave SF girl. I'm pretty sure Tricia Helfer, Morena Baccarin, and Gillian Anderson have reasonably sized fan bases.
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