ray_afraid said:
The only Star Trek I saw much of while growing up was Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Both were beyond dull. Characters so bland and dialog so stiff I've always wondered what attracts anybody to the franchise. I saw the Original Motion Picture when I was about 10 and it was the first time I saw a film in which the special effects shots were what bored me out of the film. Shots of the Enterprise floating through space at a snails pace and seemed to last hours. Recently I've checked out the original series and found it much better. Very groovy and full of retro cool. I'm actually kinda excited to check out more!
So, for me, Star Wars is better because of the 'real' and interesting characters and effects that dazzle rather than bore. Also a story and characters that are identifiable and exciting are much better than a story and characters that are unrelateable and dull.
it's all opinions.
For me -
Star Trek TOS - brilliant, as soon as you get to the 60's way of storytelling.
Of course there are a couple of very stupid stories like Spock's brain but most of them are pretty good.
The Animated Series - started as a great sequel to TOS but turned into a cartoon for 6 year old kids VERY soon.
The Next Generation - has great episodes and also pretty bad episodes. However I REALLY went into TNG with the later seasons, which had much darker and scarier stories.
Deep Space Nine - boring. I started to like it only when they came up with th e war arcs in the last seasons.
Voyager - piece of shit. Never liked it as a kid, and only last year I made myself to watch it completely, and the only thing I like about the series are Seven Of Nine's boobs. Other than that the show sucks.
Enterprise - great season 1, good season 2, great season 3, very stupid season 4. No wonder it got cancelled.
Movies - every second movie is great. The reboot movie sucks. It's even worse than the Star Wars prequels