• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think Star Wars fans think about Star Trek all that much or necessarily even know about it. It hasn’t been a big deal in such a long time.

  • bi_tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    I don’t like star wars that much, because it’s more acion than scifi

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      202·
      1 year ago

      Star Wars is Fantasy to Star Trek’s SciFi, IMO. These genres get lumped together in libraries and publishing, and there is significant crossover between them, but they are still distinct.

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        1 year ago

        George Lucas always said he hates it when people call Star Wars SciFi as he always considered it to be a space opera with very little Sci and heavy on the Fi.

        • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          101·
          1 year ago

          Likewise, doctor who is pure fantasy as well, and it grinds my gears when people call it sci-fi.

          The technology is “wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff”, and just pulled out of someone’s ass (sonic screwdriver, immortality chip, phone that works across time, etc etc) there’s nothing science about it at all.

          • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
            61·
            1 year ago

            Right, and even when sci-fi hand hand waves its technology it’s about its impact on society.

            For example, Star Wars never directly addressed that droids are a slave race, in a society with apparently unlimited energy, and yet poverty is just absolutely everywhere.

            That is outright insane. Lucas never addressed it because the story is about good space wizard samurai fighting bad space wizard samurai, and even when he dips his toes into political allegory it’s a commentary on modern society and not “how would it be different?”

            I’d say Doctor Who occasionally verges into sci fi for this reason though. There are at least some episodes that go “how does life work when space whales?”

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        61·
        1 year ago

        I think the distinction is a focus of drama vs action. Star Trek is mostly drama with a Sci Fi dressing and Start Wars is more action with a Sci Fi dressing. Neither are really based on science and both have magical space transportation that lets them move between planets.

        They are both great examples of doing what they set out to do, and why I am not a fan of the newer Star Trek movies and shows that try to be closer to the epic fantasy action of Star Wars. Just let them be their own things!

      • Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve never really agreed with this. In the scale of sci-fi softness, they’re both in about the same territory. Star wars is slightly softer because of Jedis, but star trek has empaths for example.

        The main difference is that star trek tends to do a bit more of speculation about tech, and star wars is more about telling stories about fascism in space, but both do both at times.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    While I love the meme pic, in all honesty I’ve always liked both of them in a way that both baseball and football are two very distinct sports that you can like both of as well.

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        As a child, I was heavy into Star Wars and always meh on Star Trek. As an adult, I’m still heavy into Star Wars, but I have warmed significantly to Star Trek and really enjoy it now. I think I just didn’t fully understand Star Trek as a child. They’re very different, but both are great.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          Star Wars is pretty childish, so it’s understandable that kids like it. I just don’t understand how adults can overlook all of the glaring deficiencies and still enjoy it. There are some cool concepts and scenes, but as a whole it has a lot of room for improvement.