star wars or star trek?

Which is your favourite and why?

I like both equally, along with Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, the Stargate's and Doctor Who - all have their plus and minuses, but i don't see the need to really pick one over the other... :)

Star Wars > Star Trek (except possibly The Next Generation, which I enjoyed greatly)

BSG - recent series is better than both.
Dr Who is a big bucket of toss :)

I didn't really get in to Babylon5 or Farscape

Star Wars is my fovourite but I also enjoy Star Trek.
I'm not a fan of all the other stuff you guys have mentioned!

Star Trek over Star Wars.

Star wars -->> Star trek buts it's very close, enjoyed both a great deal.

Star Wars. A fairy tale of MUCH younger days, still like it. Never got into Star Trek, perhaps was too old to try.

Love Babylon 5. Perhaps because watched it on DVD in rather 'big' chunks, now remember it as something good.

Never finished watching SG1. Got sick and tired of lack of logic and, even worse, the main character's jokes when appropriate and not. Hey, I'd like to believe that he'd got into some REALLY perilous situations...

As a poster I have used to say, Captain Kirk would Manoeuvre the enterprise through an asteroid field at 1/4 impulse power.

Han Solo would floor it.

Thats all there is to say really,

SW is best. But I am not a lover of the prequels lets be clear on that. still all 3 were better than

Star Trek 5, or 3, or 1, or 7, or 9 or 10.

SG1 was cool, it was not supposed to be all serious, you knew the good gusy would always win every time and even death was not the end for them LOL

Trek > Wars

I like most Scifi though so it's all good.

Yeah, but if the show does not deceive you, what's the point? :)

(I would have liked to sit on the edge of my chair: oh my, he's going to die, he's suffering sooo much, etc... to feel for the characters, instead of thinking: oh well, there's seemingly no way out, still O'Neill is saying with his irritating smile: it's been worse... I'd better switch him off) :)

I liked the lazy comedic childish simplicity of it all, something sadly missing from Universe

Dax in deep Space Nine and a Young Amanda tapping in sg1. Hot Hot Hot

I like both equally. I also enjoyed the Farscape TV series.

'Wars without a doubt - but I'll grant the original Episodes 4 - 6, relying as they did on the skill of the modellers and effects department rather than a graphic artist and animator, are higher up the ladder than Episodes 1 - 3. The opening to Episode 4: A New Hope has got to be the best opening to a movie ever (although Sarah Silverman getting punched in the face at the beginning of WotG is re-watchable on a frequent basis) - a massive spaceship appears at the top of the screen as the whole cinema vibrates from the rumble of its engines (ignoring, as Lucas did, that sound doesn't travel in a vacuum). Perspective makes it gradually expand to fill the screen until we're watching the rear heading into the distance. Then the rumbling increases in volume and the bow of an even larger spaceship appears in pursuit, TIE fighters dropping from their hangar in the bottom and laser blasts emanating from its turrets. Awesome - and no CGI; just incredibly detailed models. That said, I did enjoy the new 'Trek, too.

I like and have watched both although I probably prefer Star Wars purely on its entertainment value. Trek can take itself a little too seriously at times. I agree with "T" about the episodes of Wars however, and the intro is probably the best in Movie history. I remember as a lad sitting in the cinema mesmerised by it all.

Having said that a few short years later I was equally mesmerised by the Star Trek The Movie sequence when they returned to the new Enterprise Ship in Space Dock.

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I would have to say Star Trek as I've only seen The Phantom Menace. I wouldn't say I'm a big Star Trek fan but I do enjoy watching it on TV if there's nothing else on, mostly either TNG or the original series.

I'll watch the Star Wars films eventually. For such popular films it's amazing they're never on TV.

"I'll watch the Star Wars films eventually. For such popular films it's amazing they're never on TV."

Over the years they've been on telly loads of times. Every Xmas when I was a kid the original trilogy were always on. I'm sure they've even been on tv in the last year or so.

@ Steve young

"I liked the re-imagining of Star Trek last year (brilliant csasting given we all knew the original actors well I do) but then again you got the awful scenes where Dr Crusher always gets all moral and her son acts like he has an IQ of 5"

What on earth was that all about??? You said you liked the reimagining of star trek then go on and say but then again you got the awful dr crusher? The re imagining of star trek was a re casting of the original crew and didn't have dr crusher!

"Every Xmas when I was a kid the original trilogy were always on. I'm sure they've even been on tv in the last year or so."

I remember that, too - Xmas afternoon was The Great Escape on BBC1, then the Queen's Speech before flipping to ITV just in time to catch the start of A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back (they seemed to alternate each year). Then on Boxing Day afternoon, we'd settle in to let lunch go down with the annual Bond movie. Ah, those were the days [sigh]. These days I can't stand the whole over-blown, over-hyped, over-extended exercise in corporate greed and personal gluttony that is the 21st century Xmas and avoid it like the plague (although for the last one I was bobbing around on the Med' on a Norwegian ship and, to my great annoyance, I discovered that Xmas is a three day event for Norwegians. Still, the food was good...)

"What on earth was that all about??? You said you liked the reimagining of star trek then go on and say but then again you got the awful dr crusher? The re imagining of star trek was a re casting of the original crew and didn't have dr crusher! "

That confused me slightly, too. I thought he was on about the Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto/Zoe Saldana movie and then it looks more like he's on about ST:TNG. I thought Pine and Quinto did well to pick up not just the look of younger versions of their characters but the mannerisms and speech patterns, too - especially Kirk; you can see a lot of the William Shatner performance in Pines realisation of Kirk.

Can't I enjoy both? Yes I can! I can enjoy both! Huzzah.

I honestly don't remember the last time I saw them on TV. If they were on I would have watched them because I do want to see them.

Saying that I think ITV showed one each Saturday night a year or two back.

Having grown up in the 70's I loved Star Wars, that is the New hope, Empire and Jedi. Not so keen on the later newer ones :)
Then in 90's I met my husband who's a Trekkie and so began my induction to all things Trek. Couldn't stand original as I hated Shatner, loved NG and all that followed so ST would win in that battle.

In a Royal Rumble style fight though SG1 would beat them all as I love it. Not so keen on spin offs. Also loved Babylon 5 even with the terrible acting and Farscape and BG and....omg I've turned into a sci-geek lol

"Can't I enjoy both?"

Oh, no, no, no, no, no - that is strictly verboten. It says so in the manual. ;-) :-D