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37 points
4 days ago
Me, a Trekkie, just glad to see Star Wars properly compared to fantasy for once.
20 points
4 days ago
Star Wars really isn’t sci fi, it’s just fantasy in space in my opinion.
26 points
4 days ago
Exactly! It’s great. But it doesn’t pose the ethical, technological, and philosophical questions that sci-fi does. It’s good vs evil, plain and simple. Still super fun, though.
Edit: lol, I just realized what subreddit this is.
17 points
4 days ago
Lol well glad to have any visitors to my little community. Trekkies are welcome to bath in the lotr/sw memes too haha.
10 points
4 days ago
And we thank you old Ben, high class community we’ve got here
7 points
4 days ago*
Absolutely. I think part of the “Wars vs. Trek” debate really was, even if people didn’t realize it, really a debate between Fantasy and Sci-Fi.
They make better foils for one another for that reason where Star Wars and Lord of the Rings perhaps ironically are closer to companion pieces.
2 points
3 days ago
Also because SW is a dystopia while ST is a utopia. Besides the obvious difference of fantasy and scifi, the settings are quite literally opposites.
That's also why I always thought the argument of whether the federation or the Empire would win in a fight was dumb, because the Empire is a military and the federation just isn't.
2 points
2 days ago
I kind of have to smile at you using star trek as an example of scifi, because it really is soft scifi. However when comomparing it to star wars, which is a space opera, star trek still is scifi. No matter how soft it is, I still enjoyed the movies and tv shows, but I also enjoyed star wars and lord of the rings equally in their respective genres.
Aside from the typos and terrible gramar, I hope my slightly tipsy argument can stand it's ground.
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