Joe_Shockcord
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Get your hands off me you darn, dirty ape!
Are you trying to start a frelling flame war?
Get your hands off me you darn, dirty ape!
Are you trying to start a frelling flame war?
I wonder how long it'll be before we hear from the Farscape fan?
I guess my frelling comment a few posts back was too subtle...
Calm the frak down. (That's a Battlestar Galactica reference.)
Are you afraid of using the real "F" word!!! LOL
You mean felgecarp? Now THAT''s a Battlestar Galactica reference!
I guess my frelling comment a few posts back was too subtle...
You mean felgecarp? Now THAT''s a Battlestar Galactica reference!
I don't mean to be a frakking nitpicker, but I think it is maybe Felgercarb.
You may be right. I'm at my corner sports bar and I didn't bring my Caprican-English dictionary with me.
Enjoy your ambrosia.
I will, and hopefully, that blonde socialator will be here tonight.
The only way to truly answer the question would be to have an Estes Star Wars and Star Trek kit build and fly off. Which one has the best model rockets?
Oddly enough, as I write this, I realize that I liked the shows and movies made with models much better than the ones made with CGI.
Folks pick'em STAR TREK or star wars?
I personally take STAR TREK 100% all the time. Here me out. I am nerd at heart. For me STAR TREK is more then sci-fi. In my opinion it is 100% possible reality. Yes, most of the technologies in STAR TREK dont actually exist yet! But there are lots of theories that have scientific backing that one day will be a reality. That is what drew me to STAR TREK. Like Gene Roddenberry said "A wagon train to the stars." As the world goes to hell and a hand bag right now the universe of STAR TREK looks even more awesome. Gene Roddenberry's vision was that STAR TREK was out future. Humanity would one day grow up and out grow its infancy. I believe what Roddenberry believed. Perhaps one day. "In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will no how to read."
"Someone once told me that time is the predator that stalks us all out live, but I rather believe time is the companion that goes with us on the journey to remind us that it will never come again."
star wars is just a sci-fi series, no reality. Just a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Have to agree here, but one thing andrew left out was the disembowlment of monetary money.
Once the greed and power ceases, by the power of wealth, ALL will earthlings will become equal.
How that will happen in the future is probably the greatest mistery on Earth, if not the Universe.
The one that does it, will be forever remembered alongside FRD's address to congress the day after 12.07.41.
"In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will no how to read."
"Someone once told me that time is the predator that stalks us all out live, but I rather believe time is the companion that goes with us on the journey to remind us that it will never come again."
star wars is just a sci-fi series, no reality. Just a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Why not both?
Seriously, though, I'm too cynical to buy in to Roddenberry's vision of a happy-happy joy-joy future where everyone just gets along. As a species, I think we're just too selfish.
From a story standpoint, yeah, Trek is better; Star Wars is a classic Western. Lucas' revisionism is ... extremely frustrating.
But will they know how to spell and use good grammar??
Nice quote by the way... Picard from the ending of "Generations" IIRC...
I like each for their own reasons. Trek is more "realistic" (though I'm not sure that "warp drive" and most certainly "transporters" will ever actually be real) but Star Wars has its merits too. Star Wars is basically the same sort of "heroic" storytelling that has been the hallmark of classical storytelling for thousands of years. "Star Wars" is the modern-day retelling of Homer's "Illiad", Greek tragedies, Shakespeare's plays, etc. It isn't SUPPOSED to be "real"... it's supposed to be the "hero's saga" and show how the choices and fates impact the hero's life over time.
The very best of Trek also has the "morality play" at its heart. That's why TOS is such a classic. Regardless of series or setting, however, Trek has always been the most endearing when it has stuck to a very "morality play" basis, in that it speaks to the human condition.
That's the real reason that I find SO LITTLE about the JJAbrams "Drek" to be worthwhile... he's turned Star Trek into a 2 hour Saturday afternoon popcorn and ticket comic book version of the original... his movies are fine for a 2 hour time waster on a Saturday afternoon, but they have NO deeper meaning, NO deeper connection or statement about humanity or the "human condition" at all... it's just a "comic book style shoot-em-up".
That's why I REALLY hate to think of how he's going to butcher the Star Wars franchise... He did a complete hack job on Star Trek and now I fear that Star Wars is in line for the same mess...
Later! OL JR