I'm a fan of all of the above. Star Trek was my first and eternal love (also - Deanna Troi, Uhura, Seven of Nine, T'Pol, and Saavik are hot as hell in their prime), but Star Wars is my dark mistress - blending the best of fantasy, sci-fi, and old pulp novels into a unique and harmonious whole... when it's done right.
When they're bad, they're really bad (all the next gen movies; star wars prequels and remakes) but when they're good - they're really good (most star trek TV episodes - particularly DS9 and Next Gen, but honestly I like ALL of them; old 70s/80s star wars movies and the animated star wars clone wars (not the CG series)).
They brought me to love science and the idea of a positive future for humankind. Without it, I may not have become the rational skeptic I am today.
...and seriously - when Star Trek does women, it does them right. They're (very) attractive but strong and interesting women. The whole package - eye candy, tough as nails, and intelligent. Ensign Ro, you weren't a regular on the show but you were a regular... in my heart. Go kill those Cardassian bastards! I believe in you!
When they're bad, they're really bad (all the next gen movies; star wars prequels and remakes) but when they're good - they're really good (most star trek TV episodes - particularly DS9 and Next Gen, but honestly I like ALL of them; old 70s/80s star wars movies and the animated star wars clone wars (not the CG series)).
They brought me to love science and the idea of a positive future for humankind. Without it, I may not have become the rational skeptic I am today.
...and seriously - when Star Trek does women, it does them right. They're (very) attractive but strong and interesting women. The whole package - eye candy, tough as nails, and intelligent. Ensign Ro, you weren't a regular on the show but you were a regular... in my heart. Go kill those Cardassian bastards! I believe in you!
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
