Star Wars vs. Star Trek

[MHR7331]

So I was at the Long Beach Comic Con yesterday, and saw a plethora of Star Wars crap, and a handful of Star Trek crap. I'm a diehard Star Wars fan, and I just have a really hard time imagining why some go the Trekkie route. On one side you have Jedi Knights, Sith Lords, Wookiees and droids... and on the other side you have dudes dressed in spandex with lapel pins carrying photon remote controls. Okay, so the Klingons are pretty hard, with their ceremonial whatever-they're-called blades... aside from that, I just don't get Star Trek. Feel free to enlighten me

 

[DaMulta]

I feel sorry for you that you just don't understand the greatness of Star-Trek!

Altho the last movie was a total fail.......

 

[jimik]

I like the entire exploration angle that Star Trek took. I was not a hard core fan of either, but out of the two I enjoy Star Trek more.

 

[Moobyghost]

I like the exploration and civility of Star Trek. In star wars they just blow up **** first and ask questions later.

BTW, The new Star Trek movie was freakin' Win!!

 

[AngusATAT]

I feel sorry for you that you just don't understand the greatness of Star-Trek!

Altho the last movie was a total fail.......

And the last three SW movies weren't?

Meesa so confuseded.

 

[AngusATAT]

BTW, The new Star Trek movie was freakin' Win!!

Freakin' A, Bubba.

 

[MHR7331]

And the last three SW movies weren't?

Meesa so confuseded.

lol... it was pretty sad when I watched Phantom Menace... Entire audience was booming when the opening story prologue thing started up. End of the film, it was dead quiet save a few reluctant claps... well, at least the "last" three were good

 

[Elendil]

George Lucas = Hack He should get down on his Knees and beg Peter Jackson to give him lessons on how to make a movie trilogy. (Of course, Jackson's material was a 1000 x's better to start)

Star Wars is just nonsensical crap that uses special effects to distract from the fact that it is an empty vessel with no redeeming value.

OTOH Star Trek has a clear message and deals with social issues and talks of a future with hope.

Besides the Star Trek ships are much cooler.

PS. Did I mention that George Lucas is a hack? Not one good effort since American Graffiti

Voyager may be the best Star Trek series of all.

 

[Mary Kay]

Star Trek was Wagon Train in space! After all those cowboy shows from the 50's and 60's it was so wonderful to see something like Star Trek! It didn't hurt that Kirk was such a cutie or that all the girls work skimpy outfits. Uhura was the first black woman who wasn't a maid or nurse. Spock was a novel type of costar.
We wanted to believe that space travel was that close! We had the space program boom and the feeling was that one day..it could be us on that bridge. I wanted a food synthesizer and a comunicator. ..can we say micro wave and cell phone?
Star Trek the T.V. series was a part of the "feel good" of our youth. The Movies were reunions..though I did like part2 and 4!
Star Wars is a part of your youth, light sabres and Yoda. to me they were kids Sci Fi..they did get a lot better and then a lot worse.
Most people will be divided down age lines as far as Star Trek vs Star Wars.
I still have my Star Trek baseball cap!

 

[Moobyghost]

Star Trek was Wagon Train in space! After all those cowboy shows from the 50's and 60's it was so wonderful to see something like Star Trek! It didn't hurt that Kirk was such a cutie or that all the girls work skimpy outfits. Uhura was the first black woman who wasn't a maid or nurse. Spock was a novel type of costar.
We wanted to believe that space travel was that close! We had the space program boom and the feeling was that one day..it could be us on that bridge. I wanted a food synthesizer and a comunicator. ..can we say micro wave and cell phone?
Star Trek the T.V. series was a part of the "feel good" of our youth. The Movies were reunions..though I did like part2 and 4!
Star Wars is a part of your youth, light sabres and Yoda. to me they were kids Sci Fi..they did get a lot better and then a lot worse.
Most people will be divided down age lines as far as Star Trek vs Star Wars.
I still have my Star Trek baseball cap!

I love you.

 

[Lloyd]

Star Wars is just nonsensical crap that uses special effects to distract from the fact that it is an empty vessel with no redeeming value.

I sense much anger in this one...

I wouldn't go so far as to say Star Wars has no redeeming value. Certainly not as rich as LOTR. But there was some value in it.

I am not sure why Star Wars and Star Trek have to be compared. They really weren't the same at all. (Aside from the fact that they were both in set in space, and they both have 'Star' in the titlle).

Personally I like them both. Although I agree with the poster that said the last ST movie was a fail. It just didn't make any sense. Can anyone tell me if it only takes the tiniest drop of 'red matter' to destroy an entire world, why would you take a huge ball of it in a tiny ship flown by one elder man, with no back-up all the way across the galaxy to stop a super nova. Gee, I hope nothing bad happens to that guy...

Also Episode I and II sucked. Episode III was okay. And Empire was definitely the best.

 

[gashin]

Strange - just yesterday I had this urge to watch Star Trek vs Star Wars videos and now you post this topic. This video pretty much sums up the Star Trek vs Star Wars debate:

YouTube - Star Wars Vs. Star Trek - DMP Edition HQ

 

[LoBo]

apples and oranges. two completely different concepts. but star wars kicks ..... jedi...need I say more. The halo universe is more my style anyway.

 

[HaploVoss]

I love Star Trek... but you have to admit... you just can't do THIS with Star Trek:

YouTube - Numa Numa Yoda #09

 

[mlady]

So I was at the Long Beach Comic Con yesterday, and saw a plethora of Star Wars crap, and a handful of Star Trek crap. I'm a diehard Star Wars fan, and I just have a really hard time imagining why some go the Trekkie route. On one side you have Jedi Knights, Sith Lords, Wookiees and droids... and on the other side you have dudes dressed in spandex with lapel pins carrying photon remote controls. Okay, so the Klingons are pretty hard, with their ceremonial whatever-they're-called blades... aside from that, I just don't get Star Trek. Feel free to enlighten me

i am the opposite. while ONE movie was cool on the star wars side (the one with the ewoks) none of the other ones made much sense.

however STAR TREK made sense from the time i started watching it on tv in the 70.'s on Saturday, at 1 PM. it was a story about some where far away, that could actually happen, at some point in the future.

it was the connection from current day and stories around our time, that were reflected in the star trek story boards that drove me crazy.

some of the series didn't do much for me. voyageur had it's moments, challenger was pretty intense at times. it was TNG that spawned my favourite series of all time DS9.

i loved that in the alternative universe, Kiera was bisexual. It was nice to have that identification of me somewhere else out there. even if it was in a "fictious" space.

` sighs ` ...

 

[Scottofalltrades]

Star-Trek will always be my personal favorite. To this day, whenever I catch a rerun of any Next Generation episode I'm instantly glued to the t.v. I do like Star Wars.......just not nearly as much. That movie franchise should have been left as alone! The 3 cash in movies that Lucas made ruined it for me.

 

[DaMulta]

BUT Picard has his own song!

YouTube - The Picard Video

 

[Lloyd]

i am the opposite. while ONE movie was cool on the star wars side (the one with the ewoks) none of the other ones made much sense.

That comment made me sad on so many levels....

 

[Lloyd]

Next someone needs to post a thread about who would win in a fist fight, Han Solo or Indiana Jones...

I believe that is the natural progreesion.

 

[angelique510]

That was a funny vid, gashin. Thanks.

I enjoy them both. In my house, I am the Trek geek, and my husband and son are huge Star Wars fans. I think my son has every Star Ward book ever published. Star Wars was a big part of my childhood, and was a cinimatic milestone. But I would have to say I enjoy Star Trek better. It is more about the people than action and shoot-em-ups, Especially DS9.

DS9 is most definatley humanoid interest stories. "More cerebral" is how I have often heard DS9 discribed. (And Avery Brook's voice just does it for me better than James Earl Jones'.)

I agree, LOTR does have them all beat, but that is going into a different genre. (Even though I love Same Rami, I am a bit worrried what he is going to do with The Hobbit.) I personally prefer fantasy to sci-fi. And Tolkien did make the mold for fantasy. But the two genres have been grouped together.

Dune, which is one of my favorites, seems to bridge both genres. Yes, it is set in space, but has more of a fantasy feel to me. Dragonriders of Pern has always been considered fantasy; dragons and all that - but it started with space travel and genetic egineering.

My obsession though, the best of all stories, IMO, is the Wheel of Time series. I am rereading them all again becuse the first volume of the final book will be out this month I can go on forever about it, and have been known to do so. Any fellow fans, feel free to pm me. We can share the anticpation.

Thanks for the geek thread. I am always happy to put in my two cents worth on the subject.

Be well,
~A