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star wars or star trek?
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Stargate
Indeed.
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Star Trek, hands down.
Pointless campism. They are both decent works of scifi.
I haven't watched newer works in the Star Wars franchise but in my opinion Star Wars doesn't qualify as science fiction but is more like a space fantasy story.
Science fiction is more like a thought experiment: What would happen if society or technology would develop in this or that way? That's what Star Trek is doing for the most part (at least the older installments).
Edit: To be clear: I am not saying, Star Wars is bad. It is obviously highly regarded for a good reason. Im just saying it's not science fiction.
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Galaxy Quest
Yup.
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Flash Gordon(1980) and The Orville. :P
Just messin'
The Orville is valid. While it's obviously star trek inspired, it's good enough to stand on its own.
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Both.
Grew up with Star Wars as I have an older brother who had IV-VI on VHS.
Later in life I found myself in a job that took me offshore without internet access, so I needed something to watch on my laptop. As I considered myself a geek, and having never watched Star Trek, I torrented all of star trek and brought it with me. I started with The Cage, went over to Original series, and so forth. Last I saw was Enterprise.
Yes.
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Both franchises have gone to shit these days.
With the exception of Andor.
And lower decks
This is what I came to say.
I think because of the comedy it often gets overlooked as a genuine Star Trek show. And that's a mistake.
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The section from Andor to Return of the Jedi is the plateau of Star Wars. The rest have good parts, even great ones, but that stretch is the core.
Star Trek isn't as obvious, it's a scattershot of ups and down all the way through. Which is appropriate, as most of it is episodic with mainly references holding it together.
Babylon 5, with Firefly as a close second.
Add Space: Above And Beyond, and I'm totally there.
Holy shit I've been trying to find that show for years! I almost convinced myself that I dreamt it up. Thanks
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Trek
Battlestar Galactica
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The Expanse.
I don't have a strong preference. I'm just waiting for the Star Trek Wars, followed by the Star Wars Trek (when Star Trek wins the war and Star Wars is sent into exile).
(Futurama reference, for those who didn't know.)
The Orville
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Firefly
I prefer Star Trek. I used to like Star Wars but at some point it lost all the appeal to me.
When it was still just the original trilogy + extended universe, Star Wars.
These days, Trek.
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Farscape
Star Trek, even though as of late I have found it as hoary and overwrought as Star Wars.
They are both equally secondary to Farscape.
Why not both?
I'm going to change that "or" to an "and" in the interests of non-divisiveness. I've enjoyed both, and others not on the list as well.
Babylon 5, then Star Trek. I gave up on Star Wars by now. Recently tried to watch Andor S2 and eventually decided Star Wars wasn't worth my time anymore.
I wasn't the biggest fan of Andor S2's pacing at first, but after episode 3 or 5 it changes directors and returns to the tight pacing of season 1, and reaches some fantastic highs.
Star Twerks
Space Quest
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I need more context. when my wife and I were doing the cryptic mmo's we would talk about how star trek was the fantasy world you would actually want to live in. Especially as a general person and not a significant figure or such. Now movie wise there is more star wars I would want to watch over star trek but I think my favorite ones might be trek. Series wise there is more trek I would want to watch over wars. Both have been enshitified like almost all ips now a days.
I won't argue that both have released some superfluous cash-in content, but can you really say that they've enshitified when we also get stuff like Lower Decks and Andor?
Both have produced mixed content, but they've also each released some of their best entries during the last five years.
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SW is a shadow of Dune (and a Vietnam war allegory?) with as much substance as one, and they stretched that nothingness way too much with new movies and shows of the IP. Old Trek had, at least, a pro-life, hopeful, morally upright vibe to it, so it gets my vote. ๐
star wars only because my grandpa was watching star Trek when I was a kid and there was a guy with a wrinkly head and that scared me
Yes.
Dune
Yes.
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