A handful of the original ST series episodes were good TV, that’s all. The original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back were excellent and original takes on old SF cliches.
But it’s all garbage—fun, but garbage, while these two go on like it’s Shakespeare. Star Wars is relentlessly childish, Star Trek relentlessly PC and pretentious.
Neither is good SF. Neither takes any chances.
They both suck.
Season One of Space:1999 was magnificent compared to ST and SW.
Rot in hell. LOL!
Star trek took a lot of chances in it’s day including the first interracial kiss on tv. People forget it was made in the late 60s and those seemingly cheap special effects were state of the art at the time. Cgi didn’t come along until star wars 10 years later
Actually, for its time, Star Trek was anything but "PC." In fact, it was downright revolutionary. Sure, it looks cheesy today, but remember that TOS came a few years before man landed on the moon. And it was revolutionary in a number of ways. They used the best technology of the time to form the Star Trek universe. Many people who were ground breakers in technology credit Star Trek with the inspiration to go into their fields. And of course, Star Trek had the first inter-racial kiss in television history.
Mark
Firefly was real SF...