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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 05:58 PM
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Poll question: Star Trek or Star Wars?
Edited on Mon Apr-11-05 06:01 PM by Cannikin
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hippiepunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:00 PM
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1. Star Wars!
Duh, you geek!
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:01 PM
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2. Star Wars easily.
Star Trek never did anything for me.
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:09 PM
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3. Star Trek, no contest
I always thought Star Wars was a load of ludicrous cowboys-in-space nonsense, badly written, badly acted (and I saw the first one the week it came out way back when)
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:11 PM
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4. TREK all the way.
For consistent quality. Compare the later Trek series with the later Star Wars debacles. Gem Hadar vs the clone wars? Give me a break. The Gem Hadar, the Klingons, the Cardasians, the Ferengi, etc., etc. The Trek alien races were just cooler.

Just comapre Jar Jar Binks with Gul Ducat if you need proof.
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 08:24 AM
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23. Consistent quality?!? Two words:
Undiscovered Country.


BLECH
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:12 PM
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5. Neither:





BLAKE'S 7. Far better show.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:12 PM
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6. Love Star Wars


But my first love:

Star Trek (except for DS9-didn't care for it quite so much).



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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:03 PM
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12. To tell you the truth, I like DS9 better than TNG
:D
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:04 PM
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13. I preferred TNG.
Still love the original-who can forget the overdramatizations of Bill Shatner?
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:06 PM
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15. Haven't watched that much of the original
a few episodes now and then on Sci-Fi channel. I did watch the Star Trek cartoon on Nick when I was a kid though.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:16 PM
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18. The original was great.
Production was cheesy but the storylines were revolutionary for their times.
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:23 PM
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7. Life long Trekkie here, btw
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Hatalles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:27 PM
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8. Star Wars
Star Trek always seemed too cold and lacking depth to me. IMHO, Star Wars has been the opposite -- a close engaging emotional tale that still manages to remain an epic.
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:28 PM
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9. Star Wars. n/t
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 06:41 PM
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10. Star Trek
Edited on Mon Apr-11-05 06:42 PM by LeftyMom
It just kept getting better until Gene Roddenberry died, where Star Wars jumped the shark way back when the wookies first chirped thier way across the big screen.

Besides, Star Trek's biggest annoyances (Wesley, the entire Voyager crew) went away eventually and Jar Jar still exists.

Also, < nerdtrolling> the defiant is way cooler than the millenium falcon. < /nerdtrolling>
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 07:51 PM
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11. I've been reading Wil Wheaton's blog recently
and even he was annoyed w/ the way that they wrote the Wesley character. He said that he was a long-time Trekkie and loved the chance to be on the show but hated the direction that they took w/ his character and wished that they had done it much differently.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:06 PM
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14. Star Trek
Trekkie for life.

Although I love Star Wars too. Can't wait for the new film.
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:14 PM
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16. Star Trek, by lightyears.
Characters (ST) vs. caricatures (SW). No contest.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:15 PM
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17. I prefer dating.
:evilgrin:
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 08:21 PM
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19. Trek
Dressing up like a Klingon is a well reasoned alternative hobby with a strong philosophical and moral base.

Dressing up like a Wookie is just weird.

(and the spell-check recognizes "Klingon".)
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 08:07 AM
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20. Morning kick
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 08:13 AM
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21. Star Wars
Edited on Tue Apr-12-05 08:14 AM by tjwmason
Especially now Ewan McGregor's in it. :evilgrin:

Better political intruigue, also looking around which is the more likely future?

**Edit spelling.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 08:17 AM
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22. My heart says Wars, my brain says Trek, and my pocket says
FU Lucas!
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