As a child, I was heavy into Star Wars and always meh on Star Trek. As an adult, I’m still heavy into Star Wars, but I have warmed significantly to Star Trek and really enjoy it now. I think I just didn’t fully understand Star Trek as a child. They’re very different, but both are great.
Star Wars is pretty childish, so it’s understandable that kids like it. I just don’t understand how adults can overlook all of the glaring deficiencies and still enjoy it. There are some cool concepts and scenes, but as a whole it has a lot of room for improvement.
I mean, I enjoy Star Trek, but half of the original series is finding complicated ways for Kirk to bang a blue lady or a woman in a silver bikini with green hair after the landing party dies.
The main cast survives everything, including Spock having his brain removed.
The video calls from other ships completely block their view of their environment, which is usually pretty dangerous.
Characters rarely evolve, the crew frequently gets disarmed and has to resort to melee combat, they constantly ignore their “prime directive”, the transporter always malfunctions, the holodeck goes haywire, etc. etc.
Both series have huge glaringly obvious flaws, you just enjoy Star Trek more.
You make some valid points. I have to respond to this one though:
The video calls from other ships completely block their view of their environment, which is usually pretty dangerous.
You don’t navigate a ship that size by sight. They use sensor data and navigational computers for piloting. Plus they’re usually stationary when they have those conversations.
Posting again instead of editing, in case you already saw the other reply. I’d also like to point out that you’re talking about plot devices, not the plot itself. Trek tends to tackle serious philosophical issues, where Wars tends to stick with pretty basic good vs bad.
You also referred to the TOS exclusively, which would put it up against the original Wars movies. Honestly I think the original Star Wars movies were better than the Trek show. But as the franchises grew, Star Wars stayed really elementary, where Trek decided to get pretty advanced topic-wise. I think most of TNG is far better than anything Star Wars has put out since the original series. I’ve tried to get into the new stuff and I’m usually left going “oh come on!”. That holds true for new Trek too though. Picard was a disaster.
I’m glad some people like it, but it’s definitely not for me.
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As a child, I was heavy into Star Wars and always meh on Star Trek. As an adult, I’m still heavy into Star Wars, but I have warmed significantly to Star Trek and really enjoy it now. I think I just didn’t fully understand Star Trek as a child. They’re very different, but both are great.
Star Wars is pretty childish, so it’s understandable that kids like it. I just don’t understand how adults can overlook all of the glaring deficiencies and still enjoy it. There are some cool concepts and scenes, but as a whole it has a lot of room for improvement.
I mean, I enjoy Star Trek, but half of the original series is finding complicated ways for Kirk to bang a blue lady or a woman in a silver bikini with green hair after the landing party dies.
The main cast survives everything, including Spock having his brain removed.
The video calls from other ships completely block their view of their environment, which is usually pretty dangerous.
Characters rarely evolve, the crew frequently gets disarmed and has to resort to melee combat, they constantly ignore their “prime directive”, the transporter always malfunctions, the holodeck goes haywire, etc. etc.
Both series have huge glaringly obvious flaws, you just enjoy Star Trek more.
You make some valid points. I have to respond to this one though:
You don’t navigate a ship that size by sight. They use sensor data and navigational computers for piloting. Plus they’re usually stationary when they have those conversations.
To add on to your comment:
They have other bridge staff monitoring the sensors and bridge staff notify when there are incoming enemy vessels or incoming fire
Posting again instead of editing, in case you already saw the other reply. I’d also like to point out that you’re talking about plot devices, not the plot itself. Trek tends to tackle serious philosophical issues, where Wars tends to stick with pretty basic good vs bad.
You also referred to the TOS exclusively, which would put it up against the original Wars movies. Honestly I think the original Star Wars movies were better than the Trek show. But as the franchises grew, Star Wars stayed really elementary, where Trek decided to get pretty advanced topic-wise. I think most of TNG is far better than anything Star Wars has put out since the original series. I’ve tried to get into the new stuff and I’m usually left going “oh come on!”. That holds true for new Trek too though. Picard was a disaster.
I’m glad some people like it, but it’s definitely not for me.