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Star Wars
I'm going to change that "or" to an "and" in the interests of non-divisiveness. I've enjoyed both, and others not on the list as well.
Red Dwarf all the way
Star Twerks
Star Wars based comedy channels on YouTube. Charlie Hopkinson, Killian Experience, and Ryan George have great skits/comedy commentary on the films.
What for?
Stargate
Indeed.
Indeed. 🤨
Yes.
Star Trek, hands down.
Dune
Mass Effect.
Blake's 7.
The closest you'll get to a crossover of both.
Why not both?
Farscape
The Orville
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Battlestar Galactica
I’ve tried to rewatch that on a couple of occasions in the past few years, and nope.
The original, or the reboot? Pretty important distinction.
Galaxy Quest
Yup.
The Expanse.
Pointless campism. They are both decent works of scifi.
I haven't watched newer works in the Star Wars franchise but in my opinion Star Wars doesn't qualify as science fiction but is more like a space fantasy story.
Science fiction is more like a thought experiment: What would happen if society or technology would develop in this or that way? That's what Star Trek is doing for the most part (at least the older installments).
Edit: To be clear: I am not saying, Star Wars is bad. It is obviously highly regarded for a good reason. Im just saying it's not science fiction.
Right, intelligent aliens communicating, governing, trading, and fighting alongside humans in interstellar wars with faster-than-light travel, space lasers, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, planet-destroying superweapons, cybernetics, cloning, advanced prosthetics, and energy weapons does not qualify as science fiction because it also has mysticism, prophecy, telekinesis, and sword fights...
Yes.
When it was still just the original trilogy + extended universe, Star Wars.
These days, Trek.
They are both equally secondary to Farscape.
Trek
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Star Wars
Flash Gordon(1980) and The Orville. :P
Just messin'
The Orville is a proud Star Trek ripoff and Star Wars is a proud Flash Gordon ripoff (inspired by the old Flash Gordon serials)
Ahem, Star Trek homage.
The Orville is valid. While it's obviously star trek inspired, it's good enough to stand on its own.
I prefer Star Trek. I used to like Star Wars but at some point it lost all the appeal to me.
I was in the trek camp when I was younger. But from a story perspective i think the episodic TV has aged poorly and the movies are just double episodes of TV. (This applies to Stargate too, for me.)
Theres something to be said about the social commentary certainly but meh.
Star Wars remains awful but at least it has entertaining aspects; it’s like the Marvel franchise now. Boom, explosion, wow. Though - Marvel has too much in the Team America Saves the World aspect (much like SG).
It's interesting to watch Star Trek in release order and see how it shifted with the times from standalone episodes that are almost never mentioned again, gradually into more continuous story arcs
Yeah, I’m watching some earlier episodes and that is part of my current outlook.
Space Quest
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