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Star Wars or Star Trek?

Which did you like better?

  • Star Wars

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • Star Trek

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • Both

    Votes: 2 11.8%
  • Total voters
    17
Gikoku

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When I was a kid all my friends enjoyed the good ol' Star Trek (the original with Shatner & Nimoy), but me, I was Star Wars all the way. So naturally I didn't fit in with their Trekkie get-togethers and it didn't help that my dad was also a big fan of the original Star Trek, so I had nobody to share my enjoyment of George Lucas' epic. Darth Vader, jedi, lightsabers, freakin' Chewbacca, how can anybody not like that??

It wasn't until 10 years ago that I began to get interested in Star Trek and build respect for the series, Spock is pretty damn awesome as is the lore. But ultimately, Star Wars still remained special to me so it was hard for me to love Trek more, as with anything I grew up with. Ironically, it was not long ago that my dad admitted that he got the name for me after the Enterprise's Scottish engineer... that was a pretty awkward moment.

So what about you guys, which did you prefer, perhaps both? And why?
 
Whether they are made up of books, movies, a TV show, video games, or anything else, almost every series in my mind is trumped by Star Wars. I grew up with it, watching the first trilogy as a small child, and then having the second trilogy released in theaters as I got a little older. I still remember pretending that I was piloting a pod racer with my friend Jake when we ran around the field for PE in third grade, and in middle school, the two of us were obsessed with getting as many of the Episode III action figures as we could. I still have a massive amount of Star Wars toys from both trilogies, and I keep up with most of the new stuff they come out with, like both Clone Wars cartoons, The Force Unleashed, and 1313. I've just always thought that nothing can beat lightsabers and force powers in terms of coolness. My other main nerdy obsessions are Avatar (The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, not James Cameron's movie), Dragon Ball Z, Assassin's Creed, Fable, and Pokemon, but benders, saiyans, assassins, heroes, and pokemon are just not as cool as Jedi. If a lightsaber wouldn't turn out to be such a dangerous weapon in real life, I'd give my middle nut for one. Star Wars is just the greatest. Period.
 
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Star Trek: The New Generation. Picard all the way. And Worf. I've got a huge mancrush on Worf. Heck, I love Klingons in general.

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

I'm too young to really have gotten into The Original Seres (and TNG as well, but due to Sweden being so herp-de-derp they still aired TNG when I was growing up). Star Wars is great as well, but only the original saga. The newer movies are "nice" for expanding upon the backstory and universe, but other then that they are nothing special other than the novelty of it being Star Wars. It just doesn't have the awesomeness of TNG. Heck, even DS9 gives it a run for it's money in my opinion. Voyager... eh... maybe. The Star Trek movies are sorta funny. Every other movie is mindblowingly awesome, and the others are just OK.
 
Not a big fan of either, to be honest. I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day, though, as the wife and I quite enjoyed that J. J. Abrams flick.
 
Honestly - even though I've always been regarded as a geek...never got into either :steve: decided to watch star wars in my mid teens, wsnt all that fussed, never watched star trek untill the 2009 movie - which I liked as a stand alone sci-fi film - fully aware that I've missed aload of trivia and hints towards the series but not interest in watching it :geek: lol.
 
I do like both, but my love for Star Wars is far superior. The first Star Wars film I saw was Episode 6, an odd place to start, I know. But my brother bought a VCR copy of it, and I watch it with him when I was around 6 or 7, and I fell in love. Watched the rest, and by the time the first prequel came out in the cinema I was a proper fan. My brother and I would play out in my granny's garden and pretend we were Jedis. I would even put on a hoody, and then combine that with my dressing-gown. My lightsaber was pink. :wub:
 
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Star wars the original trilogy was a very large part of my childhood, wasn't too keen on AOTC or ROTS however, I liked the Phantom Menace though.

Never bothered with Star Trek though.
 
Tsuyu said:
That's not Star Trek!

Not Star Trek at all....
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Really? As a fan of the original series, I thought it was great. Nice references, and the universe was different but the characters remained overall the same, while the actors were bringing their own take on them.

Overall, I like Star Trek more. TOS and TNG episodes that were aired on BBC when I was younger really pulled me into Sci-fi. I watched more of Star Trek than Star wars when I was younger, and the only one of the original saga I had watched at that point was episode IV, and the phantom menace could only be watched so many times so Star trek had a bigger effect on my childhood. I found watching the crew of the enterprise deal with different aliens and other problems each episode really exciting. At the age of 16, I still enjoy Star Trek, and I have plenty of episodes I love to go back and watch. I love Star Wars, and I enjoy the original saga a lot, but I find the Star Trek series and movies more enjoyable.
 
Dark Drakan said:
I watched both but Star Wars by far, for movies that old to be watched today still and look amazing blows my mind. Ive seen all the movies countless time and still love them.
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The old movies definitely shows a love of making movies and a creativity that you just don't see today. All these documentaries about behind the scenes how they really did some of the stuff are very fun to watch.

Ships on strings...
 
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I think Star Wars is better for its special effects, and Star Trek is better for its story. If you take all the cool effects out of Star Wars it all just kind of falls apart and becomes a typical Western storyline.

So I've got to go with Star Trek.
 
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