Star Trek vs. Star Wars

lets compar oranges to appels shall we i like both

grew up with TOS. always felt like it could be real. wanted to be Spock when i was little. SW is more entertaining as storytellin goes. ST is just more compelling. and with being on tv so much of its concepts could be explored. SW is like literature class. ST is like science class.

I like star wars better, but perhaps that's just because i grew up in a generation where star wars was the most popular. Star trek doesn't quite pull me in the way star wars does, but still, star trek is pretty awesome

@ spock

for star wars quotes, you need, "I've got a bad feeling about this." Its the one line, aside from "may the force be with you" that is in every single star wars movie! great discussion though man!

That video is hilarious

@ CorndogBurglar thanks for the feed back, interesting point of view. I tried looking @ Wookiepedia but to much info for the answer i was looking for on there. I also was hoping a real back & forth debate on what others thought Especially from Anil Rickly.

@ super mario glade u like it.

@ dellamorte1872 I hear u but i do prefer ST over Sw but would still like to get away from vader & luc & experience something new & fresh.

@ scarface I havent'seen it yet, maybe i should check it out.

anyway, to me it seems like star trek is more intellectual than star wars. like dellamorte said, ST seems to be more grounded, and a LOT of the things they encounter are actually real things in life. and i don't mean all the aliens, but time paradoxes, temporal displacements, worm holes, all those things exist in the real world, we just don't know much about them. i say its more intellectual, because there are some episodes of ST with no action whatsoever.

SW is just more fun to me. and i love the whole, light vs. dark side, and what each represents. i enjoy both though

@ spock

i agree. and even when they aren't about luke or vader, its about their family before them. so in essence, it kinda is about them too. there is actually another trilogy after the original that will probaly never get made into movies. but to me, thats the best one. Luke eventually turns to the dark side, chewie dies protecting solo. leia and solo have twins that are both very powerful with the force. a lot more happens!

CORNDOG. Thanks for the SPOILERS :( Could've warned us though. :( Could you tell me where I could read this story. I think it is after the much critcally acclaimed Timothy Zahn Trilogy? Am I right? After that Trilogy I saw the books where Han and Leia met. all kinds of stuff. But Corndog, I am now am going to research all this.

@ Spock. i wanted to wait until later on to post here(damn you Corndog ;)..) but, I grew up on both SW AND ST. I love Star Trek for what is it and the same is said for SW. My dad took me to see ST 5. I remember it clearly. We weren't the closest. But, like I said. My brother were fans of ST. I was just a novice Trekkie. I wish I could be a Trekker. But I am not. I am a very big fan of the Original ST series. Green chicks aside. It was good. Very insightful.
SW 4-6. Great films. I loved em all. ST Gen. Well,
very, very deep. Soulful. The red shirt guy doesn't always die. My favorite story was when the Blonde haired chick cut short,(suprised you didn't put her pic up top) died when fighting that Black Tar psychic creature. That had long lingering effects on the crew for a long time after that. But I sitll loved it for what ST Gen was. DS 9. Not too big a fan, except for the time travel episodes. I couldn't get into the dude's spirit in a chicks body. I wanted that morphing guy to find out who he was and where he came from. Voyager was a return to glory for me. I couldn't wait for the crew to get home. Enterprise was great from the couple episodes I saw. I like Scott Bakula. I wish the show could've stayed on longer. Okay. SW 1-3. Well, great return to the SW universe. EP 1 was really just about him as a kid and to tie in all the characters. JAR JAR helped with comedy relief and I was happy with the end scene against Darth Maul. SPOILER!! Liam Nielsen did a beautiful job in the death scene. I loved it. But overall the movie just didn't do it justice. I still love it as a fan though. I stick to the side I've chosen. EP 2 Too much romance involved. Killed the movie for me.
I liked the line "No, I don't want to sell you a Deathsick." But, Yoda saved the film. EP 3, best of them all. Lot's of killing and lightsabers battles galore. But over all, A good watch. A closing of the circle once more. So ST has a long history and it does have alot of books and more movies. But SW has alot of to back itself up as well. I think even though there could be a debate going back and forth. People in their later years, start to realize that both are good in their own ways so why not just make peace. Things are much better that way I think. I do remember someone saying something like "In SW they don't have to ask permission from the federation to blow up a planet." I thought it was funny at the time. But oh well. What are ya gonna do? Spock, Thank you for this very insightful article.

@ spock
If you are interested somewhere online (sorry, can't remember where) there is a crossover story/novel where Q brings the Star Trek Universe and the Star Wars Universe together allowing characters from both universes to interact. If I remember correctly it gives an explanation as to why The Force does not exist in the Star Trek Universe. If I find the link (if it still exists) I will post it here.

This has been a fun debate to follow spock.
But i,m still die hard Star Wars and none of you can change me none of you i say.
Corndog you seem to be well versed in the star wars universe the dark side is strong with you my friend.
Darth Maul would be Vaders Biotch the only thing that took Vader down was himself and he could have beaten luke no probs and used yoda for butt floss just my opinion. lol

Alright Anil thanks for your post. I now me & u were comparing chara a while ago. That was fun. But anyway I hear u with the light saber. Who wouldn't want to wield a plasma based sword & cutting your enemies down to size.
ST also has that appeal of what our world could use a good dose of BETTERING ONES SELF etc. I guess this bedate will range on until something both beats them out!!!!!!

LIVE LONG & PROSPER!!

@ OP4, thanks for the answer u were the only one!! Thats awesome Darth Nihilus. The Force is the SH.. thats what Iam talking about! "The Force is strong with Darth Nihilus indeed."
What I meant about setting ST coming 1st was that there hasnt' been any other SciFi shows or movie that were in the same quality of ST/SW that set the mark of this whole SciFi we enjoy. I mean look @ Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers etc. Those were fun but they just weren't up to par. That being said this is fun.

@ Scarface u did indeed!!!! LOL

This is almost as deeply debated as religion. So for me, no one is superior to the other, and I like bits and pieces of each.

as for the whole Vader vs Maul. There is a comic about it and it ruled. I have it in fact and Vader powned Maul.

Oh we could debate it and it would lead to some pretty angry (but fantastic) sex. But what person really thinks of the force or the enterprise when "firing proton torpedoes" ^_^

LMAO. One night I actually moaned oh the force is strong with this one. Needless to say he laughed his ass off. So did I. True geek to the core... I guess.

Its a tough question, to say the least. I love both equally so I couldnt really choose. There are so many factors to think about. Star Trek has a lot more exposure with its many television shows and a greater amount of movies, but each of the star wars movies were packed with action and fun, and you can probably compress all the action in all ST movies and still get less action than SW. I love the intracite plots, mind-blowing phyisics and exciting tactical situations of ST, but massive laser gun battles, lightsaber duels and force powers are equally as entertaning. Both have memorable characters, though SW has better villains (Romulans and the Borg are cool, but compared to Vader and Boba Fett...). At the same time, SW has been declining in recent times. Most people will agree that the three new films lacked the qualitity and fore-thought of the original trilogy. Meanwhile, at least for me, each new ST film seems to be getting better and better. I liked Generations, but First Contact blew that away. Then Nemesis blew that away. Then the new one...

In the end, as lame as it sounds, it would probably end up being a tie since both are very different. Depends on the mood your in at the moment I guess...

No prob. Thanks for the entertaining editorial :P