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Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2011 at 5:08 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
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To be fair though, you can compare ANYTHING to JarJar and have it look good.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Hahha, good one. The second last made me think of this sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF02VoDQSd0
But I'm still a SW fan.. 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Hard to decide. Star Trek lost me when it descended into a neutured popinjay commanding a cruise ship cum wellness retreat. But did it sink quite so low as Jar Jar Binks and the little twerp Anakin? Don't know....
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 6:54 pm
meh ... only sci-fi geeks and religious quacks center their life around the creative cumshot of another human being.
The 70s/80s star wars movies were great. Some of the Star Trek stuff is great too. That last Indian Jones film was a giant turd, but the first three are still great movies.
Lucas' recent additions to these films suck, but in my opinion ... who the fuck cares? It's just a movie.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 7:24 pm
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!
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
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 7:40 pm
I like both of them, although I lean Star Trek a bit more.
Lightsabers are cool
the force is cool
tricorders are cool
Photon torpedoes are cool
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 7:59 pm
You're comparing a weekly serial to a trilogy that spans the Hero's Journey (fuck the "new" three). Apples and Oranges.
Yes I am a SW fan. I've never been captivated in the slightest by ST. Ever.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm
I am a life long Trekkie! My cousin, who is my father's age, and really more like a father figure to me is the one who got me started. He made his den to look exactly like the deck of the Enterprise, and for my 25th birthday he gave me an actual phaser prop used by James Tiberius Kirk on the show! I went totally nerd and did a happy dance all around Logan's Roadhouse. It was an awesome moment! Never been into Star Wars.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I am so hot for you right now, aleialoura.
I love how high of a percentage of Atheists appear to be nerds.
Any of you also play dungeons and dragons (or other tabletop roleplaying games or war games?)
3.5 edition, Pathfinder, and d20 modern all the way.
I'm running my players through a game on the 18th where my players will play five fictional and real characters (the battle pope, teddy roosevelt, capone, Asimov, and the god of rock splendiferious) who have to save Santa from the Devil, who was summoned by the desperate Japanese, in 1945 Japan in Nagasaki before the bomb drops.
The devil will hold santa in a fortress protected by Davy Jones, Godzilla, a tentacle monster, and an army of the dead. There will be giant robots somewhere in there also.
This is going to be our Christmas game. It's going to be awesome.
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
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I've played Vampire the Masquerade within the last month. Second Edition. My ex/babydaddy and I were together for 7 years and he is a major gamer. He got me into it, and I still drop in on game night from time to time. I really enjoyed it mostly because it stimulates the imagination, and I love painting the little metal characters.
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