Things Trek did before Wars: Giant spheroid ships, planet killer ships, ships that aren’t just flying saucers or rockets, floating cities, interstellar bars, fuzzy-cute aliens, desert and ice planets, characters with pyschic, telekinetic and mind control powers, space pirates and princesses, etc…

VOYAGER NEVER IS GOING TO HAVE HAPPENED!!

Which makes me question your taste in entertainment. Anyone who likes this latest piece of unimaginative dribble over VOYAGER has to be seriously lacking in taste or is either a sexist (regardless of your own gender).

Says who? You? Do you really expect us to blindly accept this opinion as fact? Screw that!

As for the new STAR TREK movie . . . I’ll be damned if I ever accept it as superior to the Prequel Trilogy. You can, if you want to. I certainly DO NOT feel that way.

LOL.

and agreed.

“Lord Vader, he says his name is Avon, and he has the deeds to the Death Star, and the controlling shares in your armour polish company.. errkk. gurgle” (Said in a Corescant accent)

Star wars is good, Star Trek is good.

My favorite thing about the new version of Star Trek is this:

VOYAGER NEVER IS GOING TO HAVE HAPPENED!!

(Mind you, why didn’t the Federation Time Cops book the naughty Eric Banner???)

The fact that Abrams modeled his Star Trek after Star Wars alone proves that Star Wars will always be tops.

http://current.com/items/90029658_death-star-destroys-enterprise.htm

Thanks for the link. I love that video – I passed it to many folks when I saw it back in the day. I thought we may have posted that on another thread here at Screen Rant a while ago but I can’t find it – I remember talking about it with the SR crew behind the scenes but I guess we never posted it.

Whoever made that is madly creative!

I was over at the Movie Blog.com and found this old video they posted that I thought would fit this article

http://themovieblog.com/2008/12/star-wars-vs-star-trek

Hmmmm

Kirk vs Han
Spock vs Chewie
Bones vs Obi

Ok, Han would shoot first, Chewie would rip Spock’s arms out of his sockets, and Obi would make Bones think he isn’t a doctor. But I do have a strong liking for many Star Trek characters – wow, could throw in Worf vs Boba Fett and Data vs R2D2.

But as has been said, think Star Trek was more science fiction, whereas Star Wars was sci fantasy and easier for the masses to accept.

I LOVE STAR WARS IM BIGEST FAN IN THE WORLD

That being said, I think that Star Wars has become stale. Lucas can’t get people to act like real people act. Except for Palpatine, the acting in the prequels was horrendous. Yes, the CGI Sfx were phenomenal and it was a good story. The way it was given to us, however, was not. The whole thing with Jar Jar, robots going “roger roger” was just an insult to the intelligence of the audience. I sometimes feel that Star Trek was more of a thinking person’s sci-fi as it didn’t cater towards children and merchandising.

I just saw the new Trek last night and I absolutely loved it. I still can’t get past Sylar being Spock (I was waiting for Spock to try and slice open someone’s head with his finger, LOL), but I thought that the very essence of Trek was in this film. I loved the action AND the relationships, the acting and SFX were also superb. It was like this movie was the best of both Trek and Star Wars and as a fan of both franchises I was VERY VERY happy.

Still, as much as I liked the new film, it ranks only 3rd on my all-time Trek movie list; behind The Voyage Home and The Wrath of Khan.

And yet you clicked on a topic that reads Star Trek Vs. Star Wars.

Hmmmm … sounds like someone is a closet masochist.

I actually like the way JJ Abram’s put it. He said Star Wars was about fantasy and Star Trek was about humnanity – us.

I agree completly. Star Wars is great escapism. Great fun and spectacle.

Star Trek is is more “realistic”. It based on real science, human relationships and possibility.

They’re not the same, they’re both great, and we should stop trying to have the fans of each fight about it. It’s tiresome.

All in all it really is good stuff. But, again, there’s some awful convenient loose end wrap-ups

Despite all the cool eye candy Trek has (when it’s at its best) always been about the characters and their stories and relationships, and so too with Star Wars. So if this movie happens to parallell some of the plot points of Star Wars’ best outing, so what.