Which is better Star Wars or Star Trek?

[Tolen Mar]

Young Captain Kirk vs. Han Solo!

Who will win? How will it be decided?!

Han shoots first, takes all...

Then the trekkies come in, edit it, call it a special edition rematch, where Kirk shoots first.

Kirk still dies, Han still takes all...

 

[Klaus]

Star Wars IV-VI wins. It captured my imagination as a kid in a way that Kirk and his Merry Men never could. I came to appreciate Trek a bit as I grew older, but I never became a true fan. I think it's the lack of laser swords. Must be the reason why I like Duck Dodgers (well, that and the Tom Jones singin').

And Clone Wars is better than the Trek cartoon!

 

[CrusaderX]

And Clone Wars is better than the Trek cartoon!

Clone Wars is better than Episodes I - III as well.

 

[WayneLigon]

On the whole, I like the idea of Star Trek better. The idea that we will put our differences aside as childish things and create a bright and beautiful world of peace and prosperity. The execution has gone way downhill in latter years.

The execution of Star Wars is much better. Even the basically pitiful prequeals all have at least two great epic scenes in them that stand out. Bold, adventuresome and with a fantastic design sense.

 

[Starman]

What this ultimate battle ultimately comes down to is:

Orion Slave Girl

VS.

Slave Leia

 

[Balgus]

Is the 'j' silent?
-G

No- it is pronounced as a y:

 

[Ranger REG]

What this ultimate battle ultimately comes down to is:

Orion Slave Girl
VS.
Slave Leia

Meh. They both don't hold a candle to the Horta mother.

But if I'm for it:

 

[Aesthetic Monk]

I've probably been overexposed to both. Star Wars between and including A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back was the key element in my boyhood (born in 1969). Star Trek came a little later, but I followed pretty much everything from TOS (in reruns, of course) up through the end of DS9, leaving behind Voyager and only sporadically watching Enterprise (I don't even think the final season was shown in my market).

Anyway, this is to say that I come from a nonhateful place for each of these.

I've found that I've kind of moved past both. I find B5 and BSG (current version) to be more consistently superior to each. I still like Star Wars, and I'll pull out the DVDs sometimes to watch them, but I'm not ga-ga over it. I actually find a big chunk of ST:TNG to be borderline insufferable now--I don't feel like it's aged particularly well, either in aesthetics or sentiment. DS9 comes the closest to me to being consistently watchable for something other than nostalgia value.

 

[Aaron L]

They are so fundamentally different, and have been both part of my life so long that I cant remember a time without them, that I love both equally. I find the bickering arguments baffling and annoying.

 

[Ranger REG]

I find the bickering arguments baffling and annoying.

Not really. At least we know who has bad taste.