Star Trek vs Star Wars


	Star Trek vs Star Wars

245WWhrd

8-5-2009 2:06 PM

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245WWhrd says:

Without a doubt it's Star Trek for the win...although I dropped out after Voyager.

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At least <EM>Star Wars</EM> started off by telling you it was happening “in a galaxy far, far away” so any assumptions based on what we know about Earth and humanity didn’t necessarily apply. But <EM>Trek </EM>is science fiction, not fantasy, and so different rules need to apply, and they break them all the time. First they go and invent things like warp drive and transporters, which are implausible but not outside the realm of normal suspension of disbelief. 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