Star Trek vs. Star Wars

Locutus of Borg · 05-25-2006, 11:08 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxhrPaaCA4

ASH...HOUSEWARES · 05-25-2006, 11:20 AM

stoopid!!! enterprise against the executioner= dead picard.

11 Bravo 3 · 05-25-2006, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ASH...HOUSEWARES

stoopid!!! enterprise against the executioner= dead picard.

I thought it was neat.

Locutus of Borg · 05-25-2006, 05:01 PM

read here:
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/...veMinutes.html

The Empire FTW!!!!

ASH...HOUSEWARES · 05-25-2006, 06:04 PM

i still dont know how the rebels won much less the enterprise or even the entire federation fleet could stand a chance!! and yeah i liked the little film

FoxFlame · 05-26-2006, 06:30 AM

That was funny. I got a good laugh out of it.

I believe the Federation's weapons are supposed to be far superior to anything that was around in Star Wars, but I couldn't say for sure. The idea of human beings coming together to work for a common goal to better themselves is simply unrealistic given our natural survival instinct to compete against one another to gain any advantages we can in our environment. It's a nice concept, but Star Wars is far closer to what would actually happen in real life.

Star Trek was a soap opera with phasers.

But ultimately, Stargate SG1 is better than both of those two put together. I stand by this, and I still await my SG game, be it FPS or RTS.

Could you imagine an RTS? With gates? Managing multiple maps at once? That'd be crazy. Koreans would own it! Thousands would die just trying to master it and forgetting to eat!

MrBabytaz · 05-26-2006, 09:04 AM

It was cool I liked it

ASH...HOUSEWARES · 05-26-2006, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FoxFlame

But ultimately, Stargate SG1 is better than both of those two put together.

oh yeah that soap opera with colonol maguyver. better than star wars. yeah.

FoxFlame · 05-26-2006, 11:20 PM

1. It's Colonel
2. It's MacGyver
3. Yes, it's better than Star Wars.

And finally, I'm not sure how you could possibly classify SG1 as a soap opera when there is weapons fire from something at least once per episode. It's action oriented, not overly dramatic, and the technical advising on the show is superb. They don't ignore obvious solutions to a problem for a far more dangerous scenario to create overly dramatic situations as was typically done in Star Trek. There were so many situations in ST where I thought to myself, "Why don't you just shoot him?" where as in SG1, the solutions they hypothesis seem to make more sense to me, and I'm sure, to today's more educated audience.

It extends past that as well. We all use computers on a daily basis. I'm not sure how many of you understand the interworkings of a keyboard and how transmits data to the PC itself for use. In one episode of SG1 I remember watching Carter type on a keyboard at an inhuman speed (fully explained in the episode) and as soon as I saw her doing this I immediately (having an IT background) called shenanigans because I'm fully aware that there is no way a keyboard can take commands and process them at that speed without overloading the keyboard buffer. The second I came the this conclusion, Carter stopped typing, and began complaining to a colleague about how frustrating it was to be able to type so fast and having a PC incapable of accepting commands at this speed because of the limitations of the keyboard buffer. I was shocked. A show that takes the time to consider real life consequences of actions performed through improbable means that appear regularly on the show earns some serious points in my book. That means writing an episode is far more work and it's not just thrown together and explained away by some laws of Sci-fi that the creators generated and typically contridict each other somewhere, or simply make no sense at all.

StarTrek was...overdramatic and...naive? It seemed too happy. Cooperation by all humans? Sounds like the wet dream of a nerd who got picked on in school all the time.

StarWars was more entertaining but I still couldn't relate to the scenario. It was far too fairy tale for my liking.

SG1 is based off a command facility out of the United States Air Force, uses firearms I can instantly identify and is based off reality with situations coming out of quantum physics. They're not making up their own rules, they're using those laid out in our world. Somehow, that allows me to connect to it.