• Canopyflyer
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    432 months ago

    My kids made a better choice:

    • @goosehorse
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      Farscape is like Mormonism — gotta watch Trek first to catch the references!

      • Canopyflyer
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        92 months ago

        You have to watch a LOT more than that!

        Some other references:

        2001 A Space Odyssey

        Looney Tunes (An entire episode was dedicated to the Coyote and Road Runner). That show had numerous other references too, including an appearance of the Enterprise itself.

        Dr Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (Dear John and Hi There for instance)

        Dark Crystal

        Dracula

        Star Wars

        There are many many more. The entire show was one big reference to something else.

        One of the more esoteric Star Trek references was the aliens urinating. In Star Trek, no one pees. The only time any time of shower/rest room is shown in the entire franchise is in ST:TMP when the Ilia drone appears on the Enterprise. There might be a scene in ST:TOS where Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that’s it.

        About the only franchise/movie that I cannot think of a reference in Farscape is Stargate.

        • @ummthatguy
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          82 months ago

          In Star Trek, no one pees.

          No longer the case, because of DISCO, which also confirmed the dual dick Klingon theory.

          • Canopyflyer
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            42 months ago

            LOL… I don’t think I’ve seen that scene…aaaannnd not sure I want to.

            Thank you for the update though.

        • @Crackhappy
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          62 months ago

          That’s because Stargate made references to Farscape, not the other way around.

          • Canopyflyer
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            32 months ago

            You mean when it becamse “Fargate” or “Starscape”?

            I really liked Ben Browder and Claudia Black in Stargate, however it was really jarring and took a while to get used to.

        • JWBananas
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          Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that’s it.

          Archer takes a shower on Enterprise. I think it was a Delphic Expanse episode. There was also that whole decon thing.

          Jankom Pog mentions putting a sonic toilet out of commission. They don’t show it, but they do give us the flushing sound as he exits.

          Voyager has a detailed sonic shower scene with B’Elanna Torres.

          Then there is Lower Decks…

    • @Deway
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      The superior version.

    • @InverseParallax
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      32 months ago

      Never get off the boat, man, never get off the boat…

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    But first they need to agree that B5 is superior to both big franchises.

  • teft
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    What if they choose Firefly?

  • @Valmond
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    One is just 3 films, the other houndreds of episodes and several films.

    How hard can it be? Worst case do the first and then switch!

    • @hamFoilHat
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      The best Star Wars are the animated shows. Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch are each better than most of the movies. Andor is also good. So Star Wars is a lot more than just 3 movies.

      • @Wilzax
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        I was about to say, what’s this slander? Star wars is 4 movies and 4 tv shows!

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        Alt: Lucy from Peanuts dressed as Ray pulling the droid bb88 away from Chuck dressed as Ben like the football kick trick

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    They’re just gonna end up being LOTR/Fantasy geeks and hate sci-fi if you push too hard. Instead of Trek or Star Wars conventions, they’ll wanna go to the ren faire.

  • @[email protected]
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    The problem is that Star Wars and Star Trek are two different genres. One is sci-fi and the other is fantasy set in space. There nothing wrong with either, but they are unrelated.

    • @ummthatguy
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      112 months ago

      For when you want your Sci-Fi manic depressive.

  • jawa21
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    132 months ago

    You’re all wrong. There is only one answer:

  • @Niksolo80
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    Trek Wars. Not to be confused with the 1994 cinematic masterpiece that is Tek Wars.

  • Blaster M
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    So… no one’s about Battlestar Galactica?

    • @[email protected]
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      I literally started watching this yesterday. No idea how I went so long without seeing it.

      The miniseries is kind of rough (emotionally), but I guess I wasn’t prepared for >!the destruction of humanity.!<. It’s incredibly good though.

      • @[email protected]
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        This is how

        Spoilers work on lemmy.

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        And how:

        ::: spoiler This is how 
        Spoilers work on lemmy. 
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  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    102 months ago

    Just make sure they’re old enough to participate in the “is Star Wars fantasy or sci-fi” debate first.

  • @[email protected]
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    They aren’t very comparable, different genres, completely different stories, different methods of storytelling, and completely different mediums (yes star trek has movies and star wars has shows, star trek is still primarily a series of shows while star wars is primarily a series of movies).