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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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It could be explained by not being able to go point a-b and thus having to travel a route around an area of space...thus Making the run in x parsecs.
(Stalks off, hyperventilating...)
It has been explained as such! I guess I am the resident Star Wars uber nerd..but the reason why, at the expense of repeating myself, is that in the EU of Star Wars Kessel sit in a region of space called The Maw which is littered with black holes. There are specific routes you have to take in order to avoid them, or you do as the Falcon did with Solo and risk it by taking short cuts.
So why do all the people freakout over the time/distance thing? That explains it fully.
eu is not part of the film franchises. it’s relatively weaker backstory that the franchises don’ t need to stand on their own.
Neither one are fit for dumb kiddies let alone adults!
Total crap!
Yaaaay.....
The movies have used the EU on more than one occasion. Such as Coruscant. And I would hardly consider it weaker since the backstory are either the movies or the games, which are both approved by Lucas. And rumors have it that JJ Abrams will also borrow heavily from the EU.
That whut scene is from the trouble with tribbles.
The only reason (out of 19) that I agree with is the droids. And the Trek computer whips their asses, not least because most of the time I want to take a blaster to C3PO. I noticed too that Jar Jar Binks (a crypto-racist character if ever there was one) isn’t mentioned, that he gives Harrison Ford props (I think I read that he got the call about the job while trying to roof someone’s house using a how-to book out of the library) and his performance was as wooden as Pinocchio’s.
The Empire wasn’t a better villain than anything in Star Trek, what a joke that claim is. The Empire’s hordes of clones or whatever succumbed to a relative handful of Jedi in pretty much every engagement, and even that slacker Luke Skywalker out-thought the freakin’ emperor. And didn’t he die hard? Vader just picked him up with his one good hand and chucked him down a well. Wow, that Dark Side, powerful stuff. I’m not saying I didn’t cheer when that happened, I’m just saying, pulllease.
Star Trek’s weaknesses (as long as I’m bitching) included the three series after TNG (but that didn’t keep me from watching DS9 in entire during its broadcast run, and I tuned in for the finale’ and parts of the first two seasons of Voyager), and the second season of TNG got diminished with Roddenberry’s switch of the doctor character (didn’t he used to have a relationship with Muldaur? I have never liked her in anything, except for the 2nd season episode “The Icarus Factor”).
Of the movies, from most to least favorite: 4, 3, 2, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 10, 11, 1
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
Wrong, you sanctimonious little toad. Fear is a survival mechanism possessed by every sentient being. Envy, covetousness, avarice, lust for power, cruelty, slavery, dependency, lead to hate and/or anger. Abuse of power leads to suffering. Fear is a reaction. Hate is an indulgence.
On the other hand, we have James T. Kirk, who says things like:
"Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. The body dies."
And:
"The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power ... the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides."
Star Wars or Star Trek? No contest. Star Trek inspires.
Really?! I didn't know that!
Though I should know by now that everything in FIW is a reference to something. :)
Thanks Mmogamer!
You have won the Entire Internet!
Here is your reward.
Firefly is better than both, but for this SF Nerd it is a win-win-win for all three.
I want to see a mod for Fallout NV replacing Brahmin with ponies...I’m surprised no one did it yet.
The thrill of riding into Black Mountain with an AntiMaterial rifle astride a battle pony...That’s living.
Thanks a.l. I liked the special effects in the first SW; the subsequent pictures just reprised the favorites, such as high speed maneuvers down a canyon, whatever. The first three Indiana Jones movies are better than Star Wars, in part thanks to Harrison Ford’s much better performance. Wow, there’s a guy who really hit the lotto.
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