Star Trek < or > than Star Wars

[Ruptga]

Thanks to a mental block the TOS movies start with Khan in my head.

Yeah, I don't think they ever made a Star Trek V either, they just skipped straight to VI.

 

[IronWing]

IV was save the whales, right?

 

[Ruptga]

IV was save the whales, right?

Oh yeah, it's known among my family as The Great Whale Adventure. People generally use the "if you accept it for the turd it is, it's actually an awesome turd" to defend their bad taste and, uh, turds, but this is one of the few cases where it's a valid defense. Like with Deadpool, they knew exactly what kind of movie they were making so they didn't take it too seriously, and it just worked. To this day people quote the scene with Scotty talking into a mouse, even though that guy has been dead for well over a decade now, it's classic. See also: Nuclear Wessels.

 

[IronWing]

Oh yeah, it's known among my family as The Great Whale Adventure. People generally use the "if you accept it for the turd it is, it's actually an awesome turd" to defend their bad taste and, uh, turds, but this is one of the few cases where it's a valid defense. Like with Deadpool, they knew exactly what kind of movie they were making so they didn't take it too seriously, and it just worked. To this day people quote the scene with Scotty talking into a mouse, even though that guy has been dead for well over a decade now, it's classic. See also: Nuclear Wessels.

There's a great drinking game you can play with that movie, "Spot the fire extinguishers." If someone spots a fire extinguisher, everybody else has to drink. Hint: the Romulans Klingons were very safety conscious.

 

[Exterous]

Babylon 5.

Aw man - now that was an awesome series. (Generally - and not the attempted followup)

 

[Ruptga]

There's a great drinking game you can play with that movie, "Spot the fire extinguishers." If someone spots a fire extinguisher, everybody else has to drink. Hint: the Romulans were very safety conscious.

Wait, you mean Klingons, right?
/me reaches for his pitchfork

 

[IronWing]

Wait, you mean Klingons, right?
/me reaches for his pitchfork

When did the Klingons get cloaking tech, I thought that was a Romulan thing?
<hands in nerd card>

 

[cbrunny]

When did the Klingons get cloaking tech, I thought that was a Romulan thing?
<hands in nerd card>

http://www.startrek.com/database_article/cloaking-device-klingon

2268

 

[Tormac]

They used to be different, Star Wars was a fantasy opera set in space and Star Trek attempted to be science fiction with a conversation about social issues.

Of course Star-Trek is being debased into a starwars clone with the new director, so it no longer matters.

I’d rather stay away from the theaters and read Asimov, Heinlein, or Herbert’s novels at this point.

 

[slag]

I voted star trek but only because Spaceballs was not an option.

They've gone plaid!!

 

[poofyhairguy]

According to my simulations (in my mind), this is what the fight would look like:

A "shields up" command from Picard undoes that scenario.

 

[Chapbass]

Aw man - now that was an awesome series. (Generally - and not the attempted followup)

This. Better story than both of these other shows, by far. And, for some characters (see: Londo, G'Kar, specifically), better acting too.

 

[IronWing]

A "shields up" command from Picard undoes that scenario.

And since Star Wars laser blasts move very slowly, there is plenty of time to dodge them.

 

[Fritzo]

Oh yeah, it's known among my family as The Great Whale Adventure. People generally use the "if you accept it for the turd it is, it's actually an awesome turd" to defend their bad taste and, uh, turds, but this is one of the few cases where it's a valid defense. Like with Deadpool, they knew exactly what kind of movie they were making so they didn't take it too seriously, and it just worked. To this day people quote the scene with Scotty talking into a mouse, even though that guy has been dead for well over a decade now, it's classic. See also: Nuclear Wessels.

Well, double dumb-ass on YOU!

 

[Murloc]

I prefer sci-fi to magic stuff so Star Trek

 

[madoka]

IV was save the whales, right?

There's lots of Star Trek I try to deny ever happened.

 

[madoka]

I prefer sci-fi to magic stuff so Star Trek

Yes, there's certainly no magic in Star Trek.

 

[Ruptga]

Well, double dumb-ass on YOU!

no u

 

[cbrunny]

Yes, there's certainly no magic in Star Trek.

Q isn't magic. Don't be ridiculous.

 

[phreaqe]

I keep trying to watch star trek shows but they are just boring as crap. i just cant get into them at all. So Star Wars and its not even close.

 

[Murloc]

Yes, there's certainly no magic in Star Trek.

I must say I'm a filthy millenial so I'm talking about the feature movies and I have no idea who that guy is. I guess that makes me a pleb.

 

[Mike64]

Yes, there's certainly no magic in Star Trek.

But in the Star Trek universe, the "magic" is just " 'science' your puny, insufficiently-evolved human brain isn't capable of understanding", not "quasi-religious, mystical mumbo-jumbo"...

 

[Mike64]

I must say I'm a filthy millenial

What's more, a filthy millenial with lousy observational skills... Those are two completely different people (characters and actors).

 

[Ichinisan]

Neither one is "better" than the other. They're completely different genre.

Star Trek is science fiction.

Star Wars is science fantasy.

So the difference is fiction / fantasy? That implies fantasy isn't fiction.

 

[cbrunny]

So the difference is fiction / fantasy? That implies fantasy isn't fiction.

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ˈfan(t)əsē/
noun

1. 1.
   the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.
   "his research had moved into the realm of fantasy"
   synonyms: imagination, fancy, invention, make-believe; More

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