Star Trek or Star Wars?

[Kamog]

Somehow the Star Trek ships look more 'high-tech', more sleek and elegant. The Star Wars ships are really powerful, but they have a heavier, bulky, conventional-technology look to them, as if they just took present-day rocket engines, armor and equipment and scaled them up thousands of times to make a star ship.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Come to think of it, they did it all, B5 vs SW vs ST vs BSG all in one huge mutli - scifi space battle. Very cool.

Linky?

Dahak could blow up starfleet, the klingon and romulon fleets, the borg, speciecs whatever, the entire empire and rebel fleet, including both death stars and polish of all the bab5 races, including the ancients - all at the same time.

But Star Trek is my favorite.

[Atrocities]

What I like about Star Wars is the universe itself. We know that the history of the galaxy that they live in is several thousands of years old. They have colonized the entire galaxy and have a huge society. Star Trek is not as indepth as Star Wars and Star Wars easily has the history over Star Trek.

To explore the history of the Star Wars universe would be a awsome journey compared to that of Star Trek or even Babylon 5.

Although I love the ships and characters of Star Wars, I love the look and design of Star Trek ships more. Never the less they are so close in score that if I had but a micro second to choose I might be sporting a lightsaber and rulling the Galaxy with an iron fist. (Literally)

[gregebowman]

What Atrocities said. I grew up as a Trekkie (yes, I use that phrase. I'm first generation, baby!), so I was a ST fan thru & thru. Then Star Wars came out, and changed that. Not overnight, of course, as I can watch hundreds of hours of ST, but only 10 (soon to be 12) hours of SW, not counting the various cartoons. But the scope of SW is so much more than ST, and the history is so much more than ST, which can only claim to be about 300 years, as compared to at least 4000 years during the Sith War period, and approximately 20,000 for when the Old Republic was conceived. As far as the ships, I loved the old Enterprise, but I'd kill for a ride on the Millenium Falcon. And another thing I love about the SW universe is that, with Lucas's approval, everything in print is included in the continuity of the SW universe, unless Lucas changes it in a movie. Paramount's position is that if you see it in a movie or series, it's canon; if you don't see it, it didn't happen. So give me Star Wars anytime.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Somebody posted a link to a piece of fanfic on what would happen if Star Wars met Star Trek. I for one had always assumed that Star Trek would beat Star Wars (after all, phasers will disintegrate you, bLasters just cauterize you), but this story changed my mind.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Fanfic/Conquest/

Thanks for posting the link to the story. I enjoyed reading that. The story is interesting and very well-written. When I started reading it, I couldn't stop until the end.

[David E. Gervais]

I voted for Star Wars. You must understand, I was 17 when I saw the original and it absolutely blew me away. One thing that I really liked about SW was that the ships/weapons/planets etc all had that 'used/lived-in' feel. ST has always had pristeen ships and looked just a tad too squeeky clean to be believable. Oh, and the Falcon, it's still my favorite ship of all time. She is one of the strongest character's in the movies. Just as important as r2 and 3PO.

Also, ST was/is/and will always be primarily made for TV media. SW was/is in the realm of Motion Pictures. TV is nice, but a good movie beats TV hands down all the time.

But Thankfully this is real life, I don't really have to choose, I can have my cake and eat it too. Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, B5, Farscape, Andromeda, Earth: Final Conflict, etc.

Oh, and Books,.. there are hundreds if not thousands of great Science Fiction books that have not found their way to TV or Movies, but that does not make them in any way less deserving. All in all, I think we are very lucky to be living in these 'interesting' times. Yes indeed, this is a great time, Live long and prosper my friends.

Cheers!

[BlackRose]

I voted Star Wars, nothing can undo the damage that Voyager did to me, nothing... Well Jar Jar and the Chemistry between Padme and Anikin came close.

Both have their conns, both have their pros,

In the end the SW pro's outweigh even DS9 (my favourite ST series). Many of the books in SW are crummy, but not on the level of ST's book franchise. I still come back to Zahn's work on the SW book franchise... great stuff, better movie material than ep 1 and 2 have generated. Just the overall dynamic of the thing...

Bounty Hunters, Smugglers, Slavers, ALliances, Planets Divided etc Star Trek almost seems black and white in comparison. Not to say Trek is bad, its just went for a 7 year slide with Voyager and when/if I figure out where Enterprise is going we'll see if we have to tak on another 5

ST Movies vs SW Movies? No question there, no ST movie comes close to the original triology.