Posted on 05/18/2013 3:47:25 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
Even counting the newer "Star Wars" installments, the franchise is still better than the "Star Trek" universe. Fightin' words.
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The idea that any Star Trek movie was worse than Phantom Menace is laughable.
Star Wars copped out when it started appealing to little children instead of sticking to the traditional SF market of pimple-faced adolescent boys. But hey, you go where the money is. Live long and prosper. ;-)
Well, there’s certainly one thing Trekkies take to: http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20050530_106573_106573
On point 13 - lightsabers? Sorry, communicators win, hands down. From the original flip phones to even the slab phones of today, communicators really struck a tone with pop culture and imagination. Sure, lightsabers are cool, but I can have them on my communicator too. :)
point 12: An extra boob wins against hobbit trolls.
Point 10: Uhura. With a bluetooth in her ear.
Point 9: Riker.
Point 5: Q. Nothing scared a Trek fan than hearing that Q was in an upcoming episode or movie. Nothing was more disastrous to the series.
Point 4: Jar Jar... That ain’t forgivable.
Point 3: The Enterprise series fixed much of this gripe. Then again, the US Navy is lacking in wave runners to go shoot at other wave runners with. The carrier is king.
Point 2: Might as well compare Lucas to Roddenbery, taking into account that one has been dead for so long. I’ll give points to the Great Bird of the Universe come roosting upon your porch.
Point 1: What a great villain, as Darth Vader. As Anikin Skywalker? KAAAAAAAAAAHNN!
Me too, I grew up with Star trek too in the 60s and maybe that’s the reason I like that one the best, but like my brother said, what made it so great was how it made the viewer use his imagination. Forget the cheesy sets and all the other stuff (like aliens always speaking English)...It was done in an expressionist -avant-garde style (no doubt due to budget constraints) which was a good thing because it forced imagination which made you feel it was yours. I remember my mood going wooooo absolutely through the freakin’ roof when I heard that theme...”Space...the final frontier..” Holy cow, nothing will ever beat that. I’m 52 and I think I must have literally watched every episode at least a few 100 times, I never get tired of it, it’s impossible.
Star Trek Generations is the Stupidest Movie Ever Made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06WKYFYdlo
The whole idea of a 6yr old little boy named Anakin flipping the same switch repeatedly to fly a space fighter and then destroying a armed military spaceship outweighs everything Star Wars after the first movie.
Then there’s “Luke I am your father”
I never thought of Star Wars as science fiction. It’s a children’s story that takes place in space. Star Trek, by comparison, is very adult, sort of Gunsmoke in space.
What I really liked about the Star Trek movies is that they all were really one big movie about the end of the careers of the whole cast.
I think it was probably unique amongst any serial movies ever produced in Hollywood.
What I’ve noticed as a grown up that I never understood as a kid:
“The Federation” is a giant UN fantasy where they don’t really want to kill the enemy; they would prefer the enemy made s’mores with them and sang Kum-By-Ah.
If Lucas has paid someone ten thousand bucks to write / edit the dialogue he’d have another billion dollars now. Truly cringe-worthy.
I have rarely gone to a movie knowing I’d regret it. But PM was that movie. I have the collection on DVD...and ‘it’ will one day become an unwatched collectors item.
Pick a side or be known across teH inTweWebZ as a Space Basset fan...
Personally I’d rather my crossdressing came out in publi....
Nevermind...
“4. Star Trek The Next Generation subjected viewers to having to watch Tasha Yar and Wesley Crusher.”
You know, he *does* have a point there... :-)
BTW, I’ll take Nichelle Nichols, Grace Lee Whitney, Michelle Forbes and Jolene Blalock over Carrie Fisher any day!
Loved Star Wars 4,5,6. But did not care for 1,2,3 too much. Liked Star Trek TOS. Star Trek 2 was the best movie. But did not care as much for TNG. Too much mealy mouth liberal crap and not enough action (though some was good)
So any fight where nerds slap fight like girls against each other between Star Wars TNG and Star wars episodes 1,2,3, will have to do it without me.
I will however square off with clenched fists against those who wish to denigrate Star TREK and Captain Kirk. ; )~ and when I do I will have background music from the gamesters of triskellion. And you can bet dollars to quatloos I will win. ; )~
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