You guys left out two crucial points for Star Wars. First, the production design is way more inventive and unique. Second, Star Trek is just the military in space. You could say Star Wars is as well but at least it does a good job of hiding that with things like the force.

Since appearing in the Versus episode, I happened to find myself in Vegas at the Star Trek: The Experience where they have a Star Trek store. I so badly wanted to grow up and kick the habit, but I ended up buying a plush U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, a plush Klingon Bird-of-Prey, a plush Porthos (that’s Captain Archer’s dog from Enterprise), a plush Andorian, a plush Uhura teddy-bear, a plush next gen movie teddy-bear, a bottle of Romulan Ale, a bottle of Klingon blood wine, a mini-bust of Spock, a phaser water-pistol, a bottle of Sulu hot sauce, an isolinear chip key-chain, a Klingon bobble-head, and some Star Trek lollipops.

It also doesn’t help that there’s a comic specialty store near my place of employment. This store gets the Art Asylum Star Trek figures and other Star Trek stuff like the Mego re-issues of the original series figures from the 70s. So you can guess what happens to my lunch money.

Man, growing up is so hard.

I thought katie was pretty perceptive in noticing the Care Bears on the wall. So I asked Darth Nameless, “What’s up with that?”, and his reply was, “Sh*t, man. Is that what that is?!?!” When he composed himself, he ran to the nearest Internet terminal, and came back with this rationalization. “In the mid to late 80s, there was an episode of The Care Bears Family entitled ‘Space Care Bears’ which was an obvious homage to The Original Series.” After he told me this, he disappeared in search of this episode.

So I guess the lesson here is that Star Trek is connected to all things. It is a force that binds all things in the universe.

Who wants to play 6 degrees of Star Trek?

I know Darth Nameless personally and I say he should be allowed to take back his vote for Starwars! I’m sure it’s eating him up inside

I vote for Star Trek btw.

These particular series have always been pitted at each other. Although I am a Star Wars fan, I can see some of the points for Star Trek, although I feel the need to mention the Star Wars Holiday Special when talking about Television and these series.

I’ve never been a fan of the original Star Trek series, although I watched TNG and DS9 when they were on. The ST movies were pretty good, but could never hold a candle to the affect that Star Wars had on me when I was young.

Although the prequels are all garbage, and I think Lucas has done nothing but ruin the franchise since thinking it would be a good idea to make them.

Darth Nameless: your collection is pretty impressive and I still think outdoes my Star Wars collection when it was in it’s prime. I’m sad to say i’m down to very, very few peices of my original collection.

This may sound goofy, but Star Trek for me is a sort of religion because it espouses values that I’ve grown to believe in. Everything from the prime directive to the ideology of expanding our understanding of the universe are expressed through Trek adventures.

The great things about Star Trek as a religion are that worship is not exclusive to any particular day of the week, and tithes are paid to the merchandising altar that rewards you with oodles of baubles.

And Star Trek has never caused a war (at least to my knowledge).

I guess Star Wars can also be treated as a religion, but I grew up a Trekkie and it’s hard to shake someone from his original faith.