Darth Bizarro said:
As far as my "silly delusions" about a "united Star Wars fandom", I never said any such thing. No fandom is ever going to completely agree and it would be a "silly delusion" to think that way. But I would site that Star Trek fans don't rage at others who have a preference for one series or another. I've never been called a fool or barraged with critique and criticism every time I've said that I only like the Classic Trek series and movies and have no interest in Next Generation. I don't see Doctor Who fans who prefer the old and new serials throwing jelly babies back and forth at one another. They may not all agree, but they at least can get along and accept each other's differences in their fandom.
"Silly delusions" more in the sense of "that's not really important".
Not sure why there isn't such a fight between Voyager fans and Voyager characters.
On the one hand, you can like the crazy twisted SF plots and the characters are mostly likeable, on the other hand there's lots of stupid in it.
I dunno, maybe the gap simply isn't that large? TOS was probably the most fun and charismatic, but also very campy. The spin-offs were still alive, and had some good episodes with good dialogue etc., or, that is, Voyager, the other two were pretty damn alright I think.
In case of Star Wars, the originals are considered to be this paragon of classic fantasy adventure, while the Prequels REALLY overdid it with the silliness, the hollow acting, and pandering.
At any case, why not just let it be? It's always interesting when you have an example from pop culture to point to whenever having some debate about politics or society ;)
"Look at them SW nerds, they follow the same patterns"... LOL