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Better at what? Being science fiction or fantasy?
Not even that - I saw this on the internet and decided to share bc I thought it was funny:-).
I’ll never understand why people pit these two franchises against each other lol Other than the fact that they’re both set in space I fail to see the point of the comparison… They’re both fun to watch!
Bc blah blah “dramatic tension” blah blah.:-D
More like melodramatic tension, amirite?
Them being in space really is the only comparison. I wouldn’t expect to see something like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield to feel like a good Star Wars story in the same way that I wouldn’t expect Riker and Picard to fight each other with laser swords atop planetary Mt Doom while screaming their feelings at each other after 2 movies of building up their relationship.
I mean, some people will agree and others will disagree because ultimately the two series are quite different from each other.
Star Trek is for the people that like hard science fiction. They want the technical explanation why something happens or how it works.
Star Wars is for the people that don’t really care about hard science fiction. There might be a scentific explanation for something or there might not be. The people that like Star Wars aren’t really going to care if it isn’t explained.
As for me, I like both for different reasons. Though I don’t really like either series after ~2012.
That’s true… but also in a different orthogonal sense Star Wars looks more “realistic” than Trek bc of its heavy leaning into politics. Slavery exists for example, instead of everyone living in a post scarcity society where people have suddenly decided to share resources.
But mostly yes ofc, bc laser swords wielded by space wizards is just the realm of high fantasy, as opposed to “reverse the polarity!”:-)
A bigger difference IMO was that Star Trek attempted to make commentary on real world social issues, whereas Star Wars did not. Star Wars was a fantasy story about good versus evil, it did not try to comment on the real world. Well, pre~2012 mostly, anyways.
Star Trek, I mean the old good Star Trek from pre~2012 and not its most modern iterations, could logically present an episode that was very obviously about X or Y real world social issue. So far, same as modern Star Trek so why do I differentiate them? Well, old Star Trek did not feel compelled to tell its viewers the “correct” answer, or how to think. The episode would present the viewer with an issue, and then it would usually spend time explaining both sides of the issue. Then, the crew of the Enterprise would make their choice, and explain why they chose that answer. It was not about “this is the correct answer,” it was mostly about getting the viewer simply to think. To use their brain. Form their own opinion just like the Enterprise crew did. If someone disagreed with what the Enterprise crew chose, they did not feel like the show writers were calling them unsavory names. The viewer simply felt like they didn’t agree with the Enterprise crews choice, but that did not make them stop watching the show because they felt insulted. They would tune in next week to see what happened next.
This is where I think modern Star Trek goes wrong. The last two or three episodes I tried to watch featured character assassination, bad writing in general, lore inaccuracies, but also it tried to tell the viewer how to think, or what the correct answer was, at the same time insulting the viewer if they chose any other answer than whatever was decided in the show. The only one that I didn’t get this feeling from and actually still liked a bit was the Lower Decks animated comedy.
Well, considering much, if not most, of Star Trek takes place outside the Federation… no, not everyone is living in a post scarcity society. And slavery does exist. They just approach it from an analytical point of view, rather than an adventurous one.
How many crossovers can we squeeze into this?
Let’s get you to bed
What if I told you, Morpheus is saying “I won’t lie to you”, and never said “what if I told you”?
I wonder why the meme changed it, perhaps to be shorter or more readily received.
