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Alex C:
In my social group Star Trek has always been the top dog, really, although that's probably a direct result of my age group. I was born in 1982 so I'm the same age as the Wrath of Khan and a year older than Reading Rainbow with TNG debuting when I was 5. So, basically, I spent the first 12 years of my life watching LeVar Burton.
scarred:
Well, and comparing them doesn't even really make sense. It's just something people do because they both have "Star" in the title. I mean, Star Wars is pure space fantasy, whereas Star Trek, priding itself in its canon and technological nerdery is science fiction. I like both, thank you very much, but they're very different products and the whole "Star Wars VS. Star Trek" issue isn't an issue at all, it's just a bunch of nerds yelling at each other for no reason because they're nerds.
Despite Star Wars being heavily involved in my youth via action figures and the expanded universe, the volume of simply awesome Star Trek material is astounding, and I'd have to say if I had to choose one it'd be Trek. There are other factors, of course, but having one bad show and one exceedingly mediocre show out of five series doesn't negate the fact that Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation are two of my favorite television shows of all time. Star Wars couldn't even do three whole movies right (lookin' at you, Ewoks. Haven't been able to finish Jedi in years).
KvP:
Part of it is that before Episodes 1-3, Star Wars had a sterling reputation as having 3 really great films that had mass appeal, whereas the only film in the Star Trek franchise that had something close to wide acclaim was Wrath of Khan, with pretty much every other iteration in the series (especially the odd-numbered ones) being considered fairly awful. Plus, you know, Star Wars = Light sabers ; Chewie ; Death Star. Star Trek = Plainly stated humanist values ; We're trapped in a Shakespearean holodeck program again! ; Here's a planet where we learn that nazis still would have been bad had they won WWII.
scarred:
There were way too many Nazi episodes of Star Trek. And by way too many, I mean more than none.
KvP:
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--- Quote from: scarred on 25 Oct 2010, 20:51 ---There were way too many Nazi episodes of Star Trek. And by way too many, I mean more than none.
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Hey you! * I thought you wrote "less than" for some reason!
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