Star Trek Vs Babylon 5

[KraziHare]

Actually I read this book called 'the physics of star trek' that explained how the compensator worked. As I recall under normal circumstances if one were to travel even at the speed of light (much less beyond that) your body wouldn't be able to take the force of the displacement. Some parts of you would move faster than others because of the differences in mass and the varying ways in which they would move.

It wouldn't be pleasant.

[Zylark]

for my taste, b5 is the best. never got into star trek. never really liked it, it's too, well, utopian. the characters don't resemble humans as i know them at all. they're more cardboard cutouts. and this goes for everything. the show is just too clean. that's what got me into star wars, the ships are dirty, the people are dirty, or at least got a dark side, and the plot is a tale as much of human fallability as of heroism.

the same with b5. it shows a realistic future for mankind, not a utopian one. we are still as cunning and coniving as ever, but are now a part of a galactic society, with even more cunning and coniving species doing the royal fuck-around. it's great. and the underlying plot with it's own mythology is great.

...and the special effects were made in lightwave

[InferiorWang]

I liked Star Wars first and hated Star Trek, but later grew into Star Trek and got tired of Star Wars.

[Digit]

looks like this is turning out to be a star wars Vs Star Trek thing

Sta'Wa's is a completely different kettle of fish entirely.
its just the age old epic battle of good versus evil, played out old style, but with all that "futur"istic funky stuff we expect of our sci fi these days.

the argument of Trek and Wars is akin to apples and oranges.

let it rest i say. both are great. lets leave it at that.

[InferiorWang]

I don't have anything against the Wars, I just got tired of it after being a hardcore fan for a while. There's still nothing wrong with it IMO.

[KraziHare]

the star trek continuum is writen by a couple dozen television writers and scientific throrists

the star wars continuum is written by one director and a few dozen obscure sci fi writers

they may be apples and oranges but I can still like apples more than oranges, regarding writing I think star trek is better, but I still get goosebumps from the grandiose nature of star wars

[ubik]

It seems that in Str Trek nothing ever works and they usuallt just mess things up, and why is spock under Kirks command when he's more smarter than kirk? And the enterprise seems to be quite badly made because it brokes down all the time etc.

[critter]

Originally posted by madmike420
Fuck em both. STAR WARS rulez!

Things I Learned From Starwars

1. Battle droids in a high tech galactic civilisation where FTL travel is common have targeting systems inferior to those on a F-15.

2. Actually, their targeting systems are inferior to a spastic eight year old with a slingshot.

3. After the Jedi Knights have proven they can deflect laser bolts with their light sabers, the battle droids never think to stop firing.

4. Rather than having integral weapons systems, battle droids are cleverly designed to carry weapons that can be picked up and used against them by their opponents.

5. In the Star Wars universe, "Palpatine" means "Clinton."

6. A Phantom Menace character's level of annoying goofiness is directly proportional to the number of action figures of said character Lucasfilms hopes to sell to small children.

7. The Planet Naboo has underwater Rastafarians, but not underwater ganja.

8. Darth Maul has a black robe, a black shirt, black pants, red eyes, a red and black face, a red light saber, and horns, but for some reason left his "I'M EVIL!" T-shirt at home.

9. The most futuristic starship in The Republic's fleet is an SR-71 Blackbird covered in chrome.

10. A light saber can evidently cut through anything.

11. If Anakin Skywalker built C3PO, you would think the droid might mention this to Luke Skywalker at some point during the first movie. ("Oh, by the way, your father built me and also happens to be Darth Vader. More tea?")

12. Training for being a Queen's Decoy evidently doesn't include acting lessons.

13. Play-by-play sportscasters are the same no matter what galaxy you're in.

14. Even giant reptilian blobs like to have scantly clad human women in their entourage.

15. Yoda's mustache makes him look like a 300-year old Wilford Brimley

16. If you took out all the scenes with direct equivalents in the first three Star Wars films, The Phantom Menace would be 15 minutes long.

17. Most of those 15 minutes would be plot holes and special effects.

18. All giant starships are required by law to have one point in the ship where a chain reaction can be started by a single laser blast from a member of the Skywalker family.

19. Using The Force allows Jedi Knights to jump as high as Jet Li did as Fong Sai Yuk, but with more justification.

20. Darth Maul's body falls and bounces exactly the way a lightweight dummy would.

[Zylark]

pfft, mere details...