[jla1987]

Star Wars is fantasy with a lil sci-fi. In fact, Star Wars is my favorite fantasy series, while Trek is my favorite in science fiction.

[jtrek79]

Originally Posted by jla1987

Star Wars is fantasy with a lil sci-fi. In fact, Star Wars is my favorite fantasy series, while Trek is my favorite in science fiction.

thats more like it

[NCC-73515]

Exactly. SW is with LotR, while ST is with BTTF.

[TJJones]

Originally Posted by jcs23576

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/hero...rek-dir-1.html

I know this article is old, and I know JJ is a Skywalker fanboy, but his statement here infuriates me.

Who is in whose shadow here:

A.) Star Trek, 5 sperate live-action TV series for a total of 28 seasons of trek. Star Wars, none

B.) Star Trek, 11 movies and going. Star Wars 6 and out.

C.) Star Trek, has had a genuine major influence on today's technology. Star Wars, influenced a bunch of 30-something potheads to stay in the parents basement and practice Jedi as a real religon.

D.) Star Trek, actually have Video Games that requires you to use your grey matter. Star Wars games, Video Games were you just have to hit the fire button real quick.

A+B. You know, using that logic, you can also say this is was the root cause of the downfall of the Star Trek franchise. Oversaturation. You could say people are tired of Trek because of everything they've been bombarded with over the last 43 years.

And, honestly, the number of "live-action" hours is irrelevant to determine the quality of each franchise. There are a lot of crap hours of Trek out there, including in TOS ("Spock's Brain," anyone?).

C. The Star Wars crack isn't valid, because there are plenty of Trek geeks who live in their parents' basements and learn Klingon as a "real" language. That has nothing to do with Trek or Wars, but everything to do with the personality of the people doing it.

I've been playing roleplaying games for 30 years. I have a stable job (21+ years of service to my country in and out of uniform), three wonderful daughters, active in my community and writing two novels. I can guarantee there are more gamers like me than there are those who can't integrate themselves into society.

Kids who kill themselves or someone else "because of D&D" would find another avenue to that same place if D&D weren't in their lives. It's the perosnality of the person, not the game/music/sport/movie/cartoon/whatever. Parents refuse to blame their child (or their child-rearing techniques) for something bad happening, so they find a "straw man" to cover up their/their child's failings.

So, Star Wars isn't responsible for some idiot practicing a "jedi religion;" the idiot is. And if the idiot didn't have Star Wars, s/he would find some other fantasy realm to escape from this reality.

Also, Star Wars is more "space fantasy." It's science fiction because it uses "ray guns" and "space ships" for its setting (which, of course, was "long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away"). Star Trek was about the people of Earth in a "few hundred" years, showing a future where we, yes we, rose above the hatred and violence and turmoil of the era (late 60s) and came together as a human race. It was more directly relevant to the human condition than Star Wars, because it was about us.

Star Wars wasn't about that; it was pulp entertainment, good vs. evil, a story that was ultimately (after 6 movies) about the rise, fall and redemption of the main antagonist. Lucas said his focus was to give the feel of the 30s-era adventure serials (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, etc.); he did the same thing with Indiana Jones.

D. This is irrelevant. As above, they are different styles of sci-fi, so their games are going to have different styles. One is not better than the other, because their ultimate goal is to entertain in ways that best suit their milieu.

I am a fan of both franchises; I love my Star Wars and I love my Star Trek and one doesn't take away from the other. They're both entertaining, and that's the ultimate requirement for me.

[jla1987]

Originally Posted by TJJones

I am a fan of both franchises; I love my Star Wars and I love my Star Trek and one doesn't take away from the other. They're both entertaining, and that's the ultimate requirement for me.

You tell it!

[CAPTAIN MOUSE]

Originally Posted by jtrek79

then galactica is the cherry on top

i d say star wars is in the shadow cause trek is ten years older , and it has a considerably bigger universe (altered universes , time travel etc)

Yes we cannot forget the BSG cherry on top my friend!

Originally Posted by jla1987

Star Wars is fantasy with a lil sci-fi. In fact, Star Wars is my favorite fantasy series, while Trek is my favorite in science fiction.

Well I guess Trek is just Sci-Fi with Fantasy thrown in.

[jla1987]

Yeah, but Trek tries to fit in real science. Star Wars has it's basis in a lot of mythology and fantasy, whereas Trek does not. Two totally different franchises for the most part.

[CAPTAIN MOUSE]

Originally Posted by TJJones

A+B. You know, using that logic, you can also say this is was also the root cause of the downfall of the Star Trek franchise. Oversaturation. You could say people are tired of Trek because of everything they've been bombarded with over the last 43 years.

And, honestly, the number of "live-action" hours is irrelevant to determine the quality of each franchise. There are a lot of crap hours of Trek out there, including in TOS ("Spock's Brain," anyone?).

C. The Star Wars crack isn't valid, because there are plenty of Trek geeks who live in their parents' basements and learn Klingon as a "real" language. That has nothing to do with Trek or Wars, but everything to do with the personality of the people doing it.

I've been playing roleplaying games for 30 years. I have a stable job (21+ years of service to my country in and out of uniform), three wonderful daughters, active in my community and writing two novels. I can guarantee there are more gamers like me than there are those who can't integrate themselves into society.

Kids who kill themselves or someone else "because of D&D" would find another avenue to that same place if D&D weren't in their lives. It's the perosnality of the person, not the game/music/sport/movie/cartoon/whatever. Parents refuse to blame their child (or their child-raring techniques) for something bad happening, so they find a "straw man" to cover up their/their child's failings.

So, Star Wars isn't responsible for some idiot practicing a "jedi religion;" the idiot is. And if the idiot didn't have Star Wars, s/he would find some other fantasy realm to escape from this reality.

Also, Star Wars is more "space fantasy." It's science fiction because it uses "ray guns" and "space ships" for its setting (which, of course, was "long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away"). Star Trek was about the people of Earth in a "few hundred" years, showing a future where we, yes we, rose above the hatred and violence and turmoil of the era (late 60s) and came together as a human race. It was more directly relevant to the human condition than Star Wars, because it was about us.

Star Wars wasn't about that; it was pulp entertainment, good vs. evil, a story that was ultimately (after 6 movies) about the rise, fall and redemption for the main antagonist. Lucas said his focus was to give the feel of the 30s-era adventure serials (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, etc.); he did the same thing with Indiana Jones.

D. This is irrelevant. As above, they are different styles of sci-fi, so their games are going to have different styles. One is not better than the other, because their ultimate goal is to entertain in ways that best suit their milieu.

I am a fan of both franchises; I love my Star Wars and I love my Star Trek and one doesn't take away from the other. They're both entertaining, and that's the ultimate requirement for me.

Outstanding I could not agree more!

[OneBuckFilms]

When seeing Star Trek as being in the shadow of Star Wars, I believe JJ meant that Star Trek was never really given the budgetary and production push necessary to compete as a blockbuster movie.

Star Trek movies have historically had a budget, and a box-office gross, that is dwarfed by the Star Wars movies.

Star Trek movies are generally in the Christmas movie realm, and have never done anything on the scale Star Wars has.

JJ Abrams is clearly looking to amp things up, to make a movie that would make people go "wow" rather than a general "I enjoyed that".

He's aiming for a Blockbuster, and has been given the lattitude and resources by Paramount to do it.

[jtrek79]

Originally Posted by CAPTAIN MOUSE

Yes we cannot forget the BSG cherry on top my friend!
Well I guess Trek is just Sci-Fi with Fantasy thrown in.

i must admit , i havent seen galactica yet , but from what i have heard is of very high quality , rest assured i ll see it , as for the trek and wars we could debate this until we re green on the face