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Which is better: Star Wars or Star Trek

  • 10-04-2015 08:00PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭


    Simple question. If you had to choose which one you prefer, which would it be.

    I look forward to ridiculously detailed and nuanced debate.

    Or alternatively a big 'meh' response. :pac:

    Which is better: Star Wars or Star Trek 73 votes

    Star Wars (not the Ronald Reagan version)
    0% 0 votes
    Star Trek
    100% 73 votes


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  • #2
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    You mean the MMO's ?


  • #3
    theboy1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭theboy1


    A social life.


  • #4
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Cool people are allowed like Star Wars. Star Trek is only for nerds.


  • #5
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    TNG


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Cool people are allowed like Star Wars. Star Trek is only for nerds.

    They may be allowed.

    But they don't.


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  • #7
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They may be allowed.

    But they don't.

    Like you'd know.

    I once met a cool person.


  • #8
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The first Star Trek prequel was an absolutely brilliant film,most of the old ones were a pile of sh1te though.
    Can't abide Star Wars tbh.


  • #9
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Star Trek ;)


  • #10
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    kneemos wrote: »
    The first Star Trek prequel was an absolutely brilliant film,most of the old ones were a pile of sh1te though.
    Can't abide Star Wars tbh.

    The Future is BRIGHT ! well judging by all the lens flair.


  • #11
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Ugh...neither.


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  • #12
    L1m1tless
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,179 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1m1tless


    Star Trek is way better, Star Wars is so unrealistic!


  • #13
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    Always preferred the Star Wars universe - the stories, the characters, the heroes and villains, lightsabers, R2D2, Wookiees, the force etc. etc.

    Star Trek isn't bad though.


  • #14
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    aStari Jaguar


  • #15
    Tomagotchye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭Tomagotchye


    Stargate. It doesn't take itself too seriously. Fine franchise!


  • #16
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    One word: lightsabers.


    /thread.


  • #17
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Star Wars would be better if it hadn't been continually ruined by the very man who created it.

    Star Trek is still my fave but it has had longer to be fleshed out. Probably be shot down for saying this but I loved the initial reboot as well.


  • #18
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Star Wars for me, only episodes 4-6 though. The new ones to me do not even exist. IMO I think Lucas was trying to incorporate 'Star Trek' themes in episodes 1-3 what with all that trade federation, space politics nonsense, which was a big factor in totally ruining those 3 films.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #19
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I like Star Trek because it gives a plausible if ultimately Utopian trajectory for human civilization into the future.


  • #20
    theboy1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭theboy1


    Star Wars had so many great characters and conflicts but Star Trek had Spock, Dumbledore et al.


  • #21
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Red Dwarf!

    But StarTrek!


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  • #22
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Star Wars. I could never get into Star Trek at all.


  • #23
    rockatansky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    C'mon da trek!


  • #24
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    Red Dwarf!

    But StarTrek!

    Dwarfers all the way!


    I watch more Trek, but I like Wars too.

    Someone once asked me which I preferred and when I gave the answer above they wouldn't talk to me any more. Why can't we all just get along?


  • #25
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I'm into all sorts of science fiction but I could never get into Star Wars.


  • #26
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Stargate is already done so I'll go for Battlestar Galactica.


  • #27
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Firefly.... [/drops mike, walks away]


  • #28
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    kylith wrote: »
    Dwarfers all the way!



  • #29
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Firefly.... [/drops mike, walks away]

    Doesnt even contain star


  • #30
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    Can you compare them? They are both so different. First of all Star Wars was "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" but star trek is set in the future of humans and other alien species!

    Star Wars is kind of the battle of good v's evil. Star Trek is kind of more about learning to live and learn about other species in space and evolving.

    I like both, but not fanatical about either. Used to watch Star Trek Next Generation and Deep Space Nine and the one with Janeway but I hate the one with Kirk, I just dont like the colouring or something of films and programmes at that time and it turns me off, haven't watched any of the star trek films either and I have watched the original Star Wars Trilogy but not the prequels.


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  • #31
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    I like Star Trek because it gives a plausible if ultimately Utopian trajectory for human civilization into the future.



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