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Post #584098

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zombie84
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To prove a point. Please give me as many reasons and character comparisons as to why Star Wars is better than Star Trek.
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4-Jul-2012, 3:20 PM

The original Star Trek and Star Wars are both live-action science fiction adventure, sometimes involving space battle and aliens and other planets, with humor and big personalities, but the comparison ends there, really. In 1977 though, there wasn't anything else that had those elements, unless you went back to Forbidden Planet and Flash Gordon, but those were things that only our grandparents could really remember, if they were even aware of them. And thus was the basis for the SW vs ST debate. But it's only because for so long, these were the only science fiction adventure stories involving occassional space battle and aliens that was within living memory. That context faded away decades ago, but the legacy lives on. But they aren't really any similar beyond those superficial elements--now staples--any more than 2001 and Star Wars is.