Star Wars Or Star Trek?
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Star was is in the past.
Star Wars has better movies and video games. Star Trek has better stories built for TV.
EXACTLY!!!
Abrams version trumps the last 3 bullshit movies Lucas did
I don't doubt they are good movies. But as a kid I never liked either one. There was something about people spending their lives on a space ship I just couldn't find believable, episode after episode.
Look where technology is at now, it looks like that's where are eventually heading. I never thought I would see self driving cars and they have pretty much got the technology down, they just need to fix all the safety issues and in about 20 years everyone will be passengers in self driving cars.
Exactly. It's like asking if you like burritos or fried chicken? Both them shits are yummy but ain't got nothing to do with the other. I like both too. Right now I'm working my way through the Next Generation on Netflix.
Aside for the Borg I found TNG mostly boring.
you are boring
OK
Star Trek is Science Fiction. Star Wars is Space Fantasy period. There's nothing in common between them except they involve Space (and Space travel). Star Wars has more in common with Pirates of the Caribbean or Flash Gordon than it does Star Trek.
Star Wars spends more effort explaining how the Force works (i.e. Magic) than they do explaining how their tech works. Now that I think of it, what is the power source/fuel for all those ships , land speeders and death stars? They never ran out of it apparently lol. Them shits just worked until they got destroyed.
But that's what makes Star Wars more fun. They don't have to deal with the technical realism and can focus on the rollicking space drama.
Star Wars spends more effort explaining how the Force works (i.e. Magic) than they do explaining how their tech works. Now that I think of it, what is the power source/fuel for all those ships , land speeders and death stars? They never ran out of it apparently lol. Them shits just worked until they got destroyed.
But that's what makes Star Wars more fun. They don't have to deal with the technical realism and can focus on the rollicking space drama.
not the movies, the tv shows. never into Star Wars.
While star wars mainly has fantasy elements there are scifi elements as well...if its a percentage I'd say that its 70% fantasy 30% scifi
there are androids, holographic technology and computers and things that run on mechanical principle. There is a certain level of techno-babble tho the words power coupling and motivator seem to be the most used terms.
They may not explain how hyperspace works but the term itself is rooted in science fiction and theory. And do you really need an explanation on how TIE fighters or Xwings are powered to enjoy the story?
Hell in the original series of Star Trek did they really explain how beaming worked or dylithium crystals or warp factors I mean in the actual shows not all the supporting paraphernalia around it...The next gen series did a much better effort to incorporate scifi explanations and techno babble much more than the original series IMO.
Trek.
We actually made Ion drive engines and flip phones. Where the fuck is the death star, light sabre and protocol droids?
Wars was fun when I was a kid, but Kirk taught us how to pull bitch's. How many hoes did Luke have?
William Shatner>>> Hayden Christensen
We actually made Ion drive engines and flip phones. Where the fuck is the death star, light sabre and protocol droids?
Wars was fun when I was a kid, but Kirk taught us how to pull bitch's. How many hoes did Luke have?
William Shatner>>> Hayden Christensen
I think it's a lot closer to 90%/10%. Space is the setting so having to dephase the power couplers and restoring power to the shields are just means to introduce tension and drama in a scene. If it was a pirate movie, it would be fixing the mainmast or repairing the rigging so the sails could be raised.
Episode IV was probably the most Sci Fi of all the movies. You had Han waiting for the NaviComputer to do the calculations before they could jump to light speed. You had to wait for the Death Star to come around the planet it was orbiting before it could fire at a certain target.
In regards to the droids, it always annoyed me that R2D2 and C3PO had distinct personality whereas damn near every other droid in the galaxy had none. They didn't have to explain this to tell the story in Star Wars, but I would expect that in a real SciFi Film. Think about all the Sci Fi books and films that deal with this concept as the core to their story (Blade Runner, I Robot, A.I., etc).
Star Trek is too much of a sit com, and then the
movies are all done on a shoe string budget such
that the aliens and their world all look too amatuerish;
Star Trek makes sense in so far as the various effort
are metaphors for the philosophical and social questions
of our time... Otherwise the realisation does not come
anywhere close to Star Wars...
On the other hand, the science of Star Trek is often
more plausible than that of Star Wars. There can never
be a light sabre because there is no way you can terminate
light at a finite distance from a source, just like that...
movies are all done on a shoe string budget such
that the aliens and their world all look too amatuerish;
Star Trek makes sense in so far as the various effort
are metaphors for the philosophical and social questions
of our time... Otherwise the realisation does not come
anywhere close to Star Wars...
On the other hand, the science of Star Trek is often
more plausible than that of Star Wars. There can never
be a light sabre because there is no way you can terminate
light at a finite distance from a source, just like that...
I enjoy both ...as a child of the 70s Star Wars was everything
My parents were into Star Trek, now I see why. Star Trek always assumes its audience is intelligent and challenges beliefs/ideas
At this point Star Trek is better because it's thought provoking and inspiring. Star Wars is fun fantasy
All these were created due to Trek
My parents were into Star Trek, now I see why. Star Trek always assumes its audience is intelligent and challenges beliefs/ideas
At this point Star Trek is better because it's thought provoking and inspiring. Star Wars is fun fantasy
All these were created due to Trek
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Just out of curiosity? Do you consider yourself an intellectual person? If so, why do you find it boring? To me TNG is Life!!!!
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kwazdog
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The Poll is currently 50/50 which is amazing, and a testament to both series.
I don't care for most of the Star Wars (But I love the games), But that new Star Wars Rouge Looks like the shit!!!! I'm not sure what it is, but just the trailer alone appeals to me more than the last one.
I don't care for most of the Star Wars (But I love the games), But that new Star Wars Rouge Looks like the shit!!!! I'm not sure what it is, but just the trailer alone appeals to me more than the last one.
No its just a preference. The original Star Trek made many social statements that still resonate today. If you lived during the era when Star Trek aired you would understand how ground breaking that series was.
Then as Trekkie's kept begging finally (20+ years later) in 1987 around here comes the TNG with a boring Capt. Piccard. Funny you used the word intellectual, because that's how TNG came off as opposed to Star Trek which some called a western shoot um up in outer space.
But don't get me wrong its the TNG TV series I have issues with, the movies are much better.
well c3po did explain that he was a protocol droid fluent in many languages and customs as such a bit of personality would help in communicating with various species and cultures.
r2d2 was a mech droid who pretty did his job in assisting whoever was his owner in mechanical ways. much of the emotional weight really carried by cp3o when they were together.