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19 Obvious Reasons Why 'Star Wars' Is Better Than 'Star Trek'
Business Insider ^ | 05/17/2013 | Chris C Anderson

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: startrek; startrekintodarkness; starwars
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


81 posted on 05/18/2013 5:50:06 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: SunkenCiv
I KNOW WHAT A PARSEC IS! I READ E.E. "DOC" SMITH!!

(Stalks off, hyperventilating...)

82 posted on 05/18/2013 5:53:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Norm Lenhart

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.


83 posted on 05/18/2013 5:54:40 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: Norm Lenhart
Fluttershy IS Best Pony >:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdU1iz5mKbc


84 posted on 05/18/2013 5:55:54 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: aft_lizard

So why do all the people freakout over the time/distance thing? That explains it fully.


85 posted on 05/18/2013 5:59:43 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: aft_lizard

eu is not part of the film franchises. it’s relatively weaker backstory that the franchises don’ t need to stand on their own.


86 posted on 05/18/2013 6:00:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Carbonsteel

Neither one are fit for dumb kiddies let alone adults!

Total crap!


87 posted on 05/18/2013 6:02:14 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: KC_Lion

Yaaaay.....


88 posted on 05/18/2013 6:02:55 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


89 posted on 05/18/2013 6:05:42 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: Norm Lenhart
Watch as true thespian works her witchcraft.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hieeq0KxUFw

Unless your Soul Rejects it's new Host Body.


90 posted on 05/18/2013 6:06:08 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

That whut scene is from the trouble with tribbles.


91 posted on 05/18/2013 6:10:56 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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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


92 posted on 05/18/2013 6:11:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Carbonsteel
Yes, Star Wars had a magnificent sound track and Darth Vader immortalized by the magnificent James Earl Jones. Star Wars (which I watched nine times at the theater when it came out and countless times on video after that) however has its foundation in the philosophy of Yoda, who counsels with such saccharine moral platitudes such as:

"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.

93 posted on 05/18/2013 6:12:14 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: KC_Lion

I like this better ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyuNoCUm4Qw


94 posted on 05/18/2013 6:12:21 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Mmogamer; Norm Lenhart
That whut scene is from the trouble with tribbles.

Really?! I didn't know that!

Though I should know by now that everything in FIW is a reference to something. :)

Thanks Mmogamer!


95 posted on 05/18/2013 6:16:15 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Norm Lenhart; Mmogamer
Yes!

You have won the Entire Internet!

Here is your reward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKCBn4l-uQ


96 posted on 05/18/2013 6:17:57 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: ExGeeEye

Firefly is better than both, but for this SF Nerd it is a win-win-win for all three.


97 posted on 05/18/2013 6:20:35 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Billthedrill
Hyperventilation?

98 posted on 05/18/2013 6:22:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: KC_Lion

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.


99 posted on 05/18/2013 6:24:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: aft_lizard

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.


100 posted on 05/18/2013 6:25:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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