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Posted By: MichiGun Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
I might regret this question!

I always preferred Star Trek over Star Wars. Trek seemed to be based on technological solutions whereas Star Wars seemed to rely "the force."

I know, I know, warp drive and the force don't exist. The difference is, one day, faster than light will.

Between Star Trek and Mission Impossible (Barney rocked it!) my desire to learn about technology resulted in my becoming an Army radio operator / repairman, an Air Force electronic repair tech, and lastly running an AF electronic warfare shop.
Posted By: Dutch Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Trek.

Wars is for children.
Star Wars

But old school Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were pretty cool
Posted By: MichiGun Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Originally Posted by Beretta_Shooter916
Star Wars

But old school Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were pretty cool
Thank you for bringing this up!

I couldn't stand the newest ST series, it was full of so much woke horse manure I stopped watching it after 4 episodes.
Originally Posted by MichiGun
I might regret this question!

I always preferred Star Trek over Star Wars. Trek seemed to be based on technological solutions whereas Star Wars seemed to rely "the force."

I know, I know, warp drive and the force don't exist. The difference is, one day, faster than light will.

Between Star Trek and Mission Impossible (Barney rocked it!) my desire to learn about technology resulted in my becoming an Army radio operator / repairman, an Air Force electronic repair tech, and lastly running an AF electronic warfare shop.

Star wars is a space western mixed with Taoism.

The original Star Trek dealt more with the big questions of humanity.

Star wars is fun. Star Trek will make you think.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good space western. Two of my favorites are Cowboy Bebop and Serenity.

The Wrath of Khan remains the best Star Trek movie.
Originally Posted by MichiGun
Originally Posted by Beretta_Shooter916
Star Wars

But old school Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were pretty cool
Thank you for bringing this up!

I couldn't stand the newest ST series, it was full of so much woke horse manure I stopped watching it after 4 episodes.

The Next Gen was ok, it would of been better if they'd spaced the brat.

Deep Throat 9 was ok, but after that the franchise basically lost it's way.
Posted By: 260Remguy Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Originally Posted by Beretta_Shooter916
Star Wars

But old school Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were pretty cool

^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^
Posted By: Sakoluvr Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Star Trek. No ifs, ands or buts!
Posted By: BFaucett Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
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I'm more of a Tripping The Rift kind of guy. grin


Originally Posted by Beretta_Shooter916
Star Wars

But old school Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were pretty cool
Yes, the old Star Trek was pretty cool but that it. Right now I will go with Star War.
I liked the original Star Trek series.
Posted By: Burleyboy Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Star wars except for the 3 that came out in the middle. Jar jar binks almost ruined it all for me.

Not sure who they thought that would appeal to? May the guys behind me in the theater that talked through the whole movie.

Bb
Posted By: Oldman03 Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Star Wars.

Never saw anything with William Shatner in it, that I liked.
Posted By: KillerBee Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Me too MichiGun, I never saw even 1 Star Wars.
Posted By: SupFoo Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Star Trek for the Win!!!

Star Wars is for women and little children.

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Posted By: kaboku68 Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
StarWars Canon and not the Kathleen Kennedy Bullshit. Star Trek- the original- was great. Next Gen was less great. Now, nobody [bleep] cares.
Posted By: MichiGun Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
ST was and SW were WAAAY overdone just to wring money out of the franchises. I will say ST Strange New Worlds is really quite good.
Posted By: Santiam Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
Trek
Posted By: DigitalDan Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/24/24
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all the treks.
Posted By: viking Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Star Wars for the win.

Star Trek is good, but has the same old story…. Find something new, let’s be friends, enemy shots first, Captain kirk says fire back (Nina). Don’t forget the gay couple in one of the last movies.
Posted By: Stophel Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by Burleyboy
Star wars except for the 3 that came out in the middle. Jar jar binks almost ruined it all for me.

Not sure who they thought that would appeal to? May the guys behind me in the theater that talked through the whole movie.

Bb


George Lucas is his own worst enemy. With the first three movies, he had other people to rein him in. He wasn't in complete control. When he did the prequels, it was all him, and they suck. Very poorly done. I refused to watch them for many years, as they are all heavily CGI, and I never could stand CGI. I have since watched them, and still do not like them at all. They don't feel like Star Wars, they feel like some stupid superhero movie. I hate superhero movies. And then there's Jar Jar..... The poor acting, the horrible dialog, the nearly impossible to follow plot, the cutesy kid schidt, the utterly unlikeable characters, all add up to make them rather unpleasant to watch.

And then he had to go fugging around with the original three... Vindictive little arsehole, he was upset that people didn't love Jar Jar the way he did, so he inserted Jar Jar into Return of the Jedi! "How do you like your original trilogy now!" Getting ahold of the original trilogy in its original form is now rather difficult (but can be done).

I just ignore ALL the Disney schidt. Absolute woke anti-White, anti-male crap. And it just keeps getting worse and worse.

I used to watch Star Trek (the original series) and liked it pretty well. They pushed the agenda as much as they could in 1966, but it was nothing compared to later. I WANTED to like TNG, and I watched it, but it was SO bad. So much cheesy moral-of-the-story leftist utopia crap. And of course... Wesley Crusher..... ugh. They got actually a little bit better with DS9 and Voyager, but with the show "Enterprise" with Scott Bakula (Star Trek for women), holy schidt. It is beyond unbearable. "Captain Archer" is the wussiest, pansiest captain imagineable. I can't imagine how much worse it is now, and don't care.
Star Wars
Having not watched any of these shows, I was able to lose my virginity at 15.
Trek

They never addressed relativity.




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Posted By: navlav8r Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Star Wars for me.
Posted By: memtb Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Trek! memtb
Posted By: Muffin Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Captain (Kill-it-or-Mate-with-it) KIRK
Posted By: MichiGun Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by BFaucett
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I'm more of a Tripping The Rift kind of guy. grin


Gotta admit, that's some great stuff there!
Star Trek (the original) and it isn't even close!
Posted By: GeoW Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Each had its place.
Originally Posted by GeoW
Each had its place.
Star Trek later got boring IMO. The original were masterpiece
Posted By: bartman Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Hated Star Trek, it came on after Abbott and Costello on Sunday mornings. Had to go to school the next day, maybe this colored my perception. Still hate Sundays.
Posted By: BFaucett Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by MichiGun
Originally Posted by BFaucett
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I'm more of a Tripping The Rift kind of guy. grin
Gotta admit, that's some great stuff there!

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Finally someone watched it and commented! grin grin

Cheers! smile
Posted By: KFWA Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
I really liked the Star Trek remakes

I haven't watched a star wars movie in forever
Posted By: NDsnowman Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Star Wars. I think I tried when I was younger, but never made it through an episode of Star Trek.
Posted By: Potsy Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
I like both.

Loved Star Wars when I was young (Episodes IV through VI), then I-III came along. I was terrible. II wasn’t great. I actually thought III was okay. The last three were decent, even if nowhere near the first three and out of those, I thought “Empire Strikes Back” was far and away the best of all of them.

I liked Star Trek (original series, movies and crew) but as a kid in the late 70’s and early 80’s, Star Wars had much better toys.
Posted By: JediWing19 Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by BFaucett
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I'm more of a Tripping The Rift kind of guy. grin



I vote for this! ^^^^^^
Posted By: shaman Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Star Trek hit me in the original run in 3rd grade, and it was a perfect sweet spot for my sensibilities at the time. The same is not true of Star Wars. It was funny, but I had a best friend in 1977 who was a year younger than me. He and I saw the trailer for Star Wars and his reaction was over the top. He could think of nothing else until the movie premiered. Me? I didn't find a sweet spot in the genre of SF movies until Outland and Aliens. Star Wars was fun, but just a tad too young for me.

The Next Generation was fine with me, but as Trek has progressed, I haven't seen it age all that well. After TNG, it's been boldly going over the same old ground. However, I have to say The Inner Light, ( the one with Picard and the flute) is to me one of the great moments in TV drama.
Posted By: RMiller2 Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Both.
Posted By: Sako Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
I like them both but if I had to only chose one I would chose Star Trek... to me the movies are so much better (the most recent ones)... and so much more realistic.
Posted By: MichiGun Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by viking
Star Wars for the win.

Star Trek is good, but has the same old story…. Find something new, let’s be friends, enemy shots first, Captain kirk says fire back (Nina). Don’t forget the gay couple in one of the last movies.
This pretty well sums up the latest trash that was put out, couldn't stand it!

Only could get into Star Wars.

The original 3.


Never did get into Star Trek.


Regardless, it’s all CGI now days.
Posted By: minengr Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Jar Jar Abrams has managed to help ruin both.
Posted By: MuskegMan Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Star Trek has more large breasted women - thus gets my vote grin
Posted By: Dutch Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by MuskegMan
Star Trek has more large breasted women - thus gets my vote grin

Voyager had Jerri Ryan, and therefore wins all categories.... wink
Posted By: DigitalDan Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
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Star Search. That Ed McMahon was a hoot.
Star Trek TOS only, none of the later versions are up to it and the latest are terribly woke.

Star Bores is flawed from to beginning to end; a landmark in movie graphics granted, but that's it. All of the Force garbage put me off somewhat from the beginning, but when I learned that Lucas based the Ewoks on the Viet Cong, I wrote the franchise off completely.
Star Trek TOS and the first three Star Wars movies, episodes IV to VI. All the rest range from okay to terrible.



However, I nominate Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 3, Episode 15, as the high point of the entire Star Trek collection:

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Posted By: Jim_Conrad Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Yeah....neither.
Posted By: Scotty Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
We never watch Star Trek when I was growing up. If we did I might have gotten into it. So for me it is Star Wars.
Posted By: Valsdad Re: Star Trek or Star Wars? - 03/25/24
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Yeah....neither.
What about Starshine?

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