[geoschmo]

I wish more ST and SW fans could get along. There isn't that much quality SciFi out there to be so nit-picky.

Personally, I like both, but I lean towards Trek. The biggest thing Trek has going for it is the sheer volume of material. That's also unfortunately it's biggest downfall. Star Wars has 12 hours. It's definetly more consistant that Trek from beginning to end, but as good as it is you can only watch it so many times before it gets old.

Trek on the other hand has enough episodes to run 24hrs a day for weeks. At it's best; the last couple years of TNG, the first couple seasons of TOS, every other movie, and pretty much every episode of DS9, Trek is great entertainment. The plots are engrossing, stories are action packed, the effects well done, and the characters deep and engaging.

At it's worst; the last season of TOS, the first couple years of TNG, every other movie, most of Voyager and nearly all of Enterprise, it's borderline unwatchable.

I do like Star Wars, but I could easily come up with 40 episodes of Trek that are better than almost any of it. With the possible exception of The Empire Strikes Back, which I would rank as one of the best all time movies ever, SciFi or otherwise.