"Star Wars vs. Star Trek: An Objective Analysys"

[krispos42]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19612_star-wars-vs-star-trek-objective-analysis.html

[TheWraith]

1. Bah! That's not how you start a flamewar!

I'll show you a REAL insane internet argument!

Stand back now...

Don't want to be too close when this thing goes off...

Ahem...

"Defiant vs. White Star"

(Dives for cover)

[krispos42]

2. UFP/Starfleet warship vs. Babylon 5 cruiser?

Am I missing something?

[pokerfan]

11. been done

Pretty funny.



Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck movie series, the first of professional quality and feature length. It is a dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes.

[Fozzledick]

3. So Star Wars' flaws are 100 times worse than Star Trek's?

Yeah, I'll buy that!

[MilesColtrane]

4. Star Trek - Made up terms that sounds like they are describing real scientific systems or phenomena

(The Heisenberg compensators started to fail, but Scotty completed the transport by diverting power to the energizing coils and boosting the annular confinement beam.)

-----> X100

Star Wars - Real scientific terms thrown in to the script to boost "sci-fi cred", but used laughingly incorrectly

(You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.)

[krispos42]

5. It's fun watching SW fans turn themselves into petzels to explain that one.

Lord knows ST has its share of continuity problems, but I don't think they ever abused units like that.


"Asteroid incoming... time to impact: 20,000 miles."

[FloridaJudy]

6. Hmmm...

Let me think about that. I'll get back to you in a few light years.

[lazarus]

7. It's not that difficult

instead of a straight point-to-point journey, the Kessel run is a smuggling trip that hits various ports and has to avoid Imperial forces. Doing it in the shortest distance possible would be an achievement, then.

HTH.

[krispos42]

8. Uh-huh.

Twist twist twist! I hope your insurance has a nice chiropractic benefit.

[lazarus]

9. that wasn't very twisty, though

It's a fairly simple explanation. I have no idea if it's valid, as I'm not one who reads the expanded universe stuff to learn all the background info. I liked the first two films, had huge problems with the third, have more problems with the first two if I think about them as anything but fantasy ("only stormtroopers are this accurate", but they can't hit a thing when rebels are involved), and the prequels are simply abominations.

[krispos42]

10. I don't read the expanded stuff either

Same for Star Trek, although I used to. I own the first 50 of the Pocket Star Trek novels... still.

[FloridaJudy]

13. There's a wormhole that shortens the distance?

In Bujold's Vorkosigan universe, the distance between planets can be quite different, depending on which series of wormholes one uses to jump. It not only gets around the light speed limit, but explains why some planets that would be otherwise be too marginal to considered desirable for human habitation can be worth fighting over: their proximity to a wormhole makes them valuable as a transit point, rather as Greenland is for planes needing to refuel when taking a polar route.

Of course that's twisting physics - as well as logic - into a pretzel. I don't remember wormholes being mentioned in SW at all, and only touched on as a hazard in ST: "OMG! We're caught in a wormhole! Do something!"

[jakeXT]

12. I always asked myself, who is cleaning the carpet ?

[FloridaJudy]

14. That's Grovelbot's new job.

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[salvorhardin]

16. It's the 24th century

They have machines that rip you apart atom for atom and reassemble you someplace else, they have robots with Pinocchio syndromes, they travel thousands of times the speed of light, their doctors can cure cancer and mend bones in seconds, their idea of a vacation is recreating 19th C. London -- all of it, and you can get anything you want to eat, instantly, simply by talking into a wall... So is it too hard to imagine self-cleaning carpets?

[TheKentuckian]

15. Star Trek is science fiction and Star Wars is fantasy. I see no connection

or competition. Other than having Star in their names and being set in parts in space there is little correlation.

[Swede]

17. I find your lack of faith disturbing.