The shirt:
I’ve always felt Sheeran looked a lot like Weyoun 6
Eh, I’m not seeing it.
lol fucking autocorrect
This is glorious
Maybe he looks more like Weyoun 4?
Wow, I genuinely LOLed at that. And woke my wife.
I wish that were true. He seems play more component characters than mine.
Star Wars is so heavily merchandised that you really can’t tell anything about someone wearing a shirt with Yoda on it, impulse buy at a Wal-Mart. But show me someone wearing a Riker T-Shirt, and I’ll show you someone who went to a convention or decided to order a shirt off of a website. More likely to be one of us harmless earnest dorks who knows who did what at Tenagra.
Lucas when the merch prevailed
Lucas, with Kenner.
Me, staring at a guy in a Star Wars shirt: “Bet he thinks he’s the center of the universe.”
Me, staring at a guy in a Redshirt: “This is the kind of person that’ll catch a phaser for me.”
Star Trek is just infinitely better and it’s a shame it’s always compared to Star Wars
Star Trek and Star Wars are apples and oranges. One doesn’t have to be better because they’re totally different things.
I’d say that used to be true, but now there’s been a bunch of Star Wars, and there’s a lot of material from both. Nothing from Star Wars really comes close to 90s Star Trek.
If we’re talking the original movies, and even the prequels, then definitely. And I can’t say I’m surprised it turned out that way, honestly.
Star Wars is shit though and I constantly have to see about it when trying to see about Star Trek
The Venn diagram of people who enjoy Star Wars and Star Trek is almost just one circle. You jiggle it a little, but your opinion isn’t statistically significant.
One is a sci-fi and one is fantasy in space. Totally different genres.
100%, it’s literally a samurai, a cowboy and a princess against and evil space wizard.
Kind of beside the point. If you’re someone who’s gonna watch a space movie, with aliens, and lasers, you’re gonna watch both. I doubt many people care one’s a space opera, and the other’s fantasy in space, when they’re 12, or really ever.
There’s a lot of overlap I’m sure. But it’s probably not nearly as close as you imagine it is. They’re different enough that you could replace either circle with any vaguely sci-fi thing and get pretty similar results.
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Hey, I know we’re all just bullshitting, but dreaming up fake statistics to invalidate someone else’s opinion is really fucking dumb. Also, using statistics at all to invalidate someone, as if we all have to ascribe to the majority opinion, is really fucking dumb. Just all-around really dumb.
But is it dumb?
I watch Star Wars for blaster shootouts, space wizards, and spaceship fights.
I watch Star Trek for moral dilemmas, courtroom dramas, and sociopolitical commentary.
Except when I watch Andor then I watch it for all the above.
That’s a great way to see it, one is pulp fictiony for pure entertainment and the other deals with way more complex themes and gets you into some philosophical shit that can be fun to ponder on.
Section 31. Nemesis. Into Darkness. Pre-Beard TNG.
Wesley.
Lovingly and respectfully, as a fellow sci-fi nerd, don’t throw stones in glass starships.
It’s my opinion, it’s not dogma
You know, Wesley was an annoying teen but seeing him show up in Prodigy after having practiced his thought powers was pretty cool. Wish we could see more of that and the Protostar
Not all Star Trek fans are deep thinkers.
Not many Star Wars fans are deep thinkers.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Where does 40k fall on this spectrum? Is it just a nope by default or is it dependent on faction or memetics.
You can trust anyone with an admech shirt.
Trust me.
So long as they don’t try to jack my shit by claiming it’s the blessed by the machine god then we’re good.
Where do we put Babylon 5 shirts on this scale?
If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
Ivanova is God.
Or if you prefer season 3, “God sent me.”
One step above DS9 but all are welcome
For me it would depend on what kind of Star Trek shirt it was. If it’s just a shirt that says Star Trek then not really. But if they’re wearing a fucking Starfleet uniform I will trust them with my goddamn life.
Star Trek fans will help you fix the problem—Star Wars fans might become the problem 😂
The Dominion did nothing wrong!
I stand with Jellico!
Much less unironic cardassian empire or dominion fans than the multitude of empire fans.
I would trust a person wearing a Terran Empire shirt more than a Star Wars Empire shirt.
I’d wear a Blake’s 7 shirt if there was an iconic logo that wasn’t also the emblem of the fascist reigime in-universe.
The bland target logo from Series D doesn’t really appeal to me.
I wouldn’t trust them until they told me which ST series they loved.
“I’ve only seen the Section 31 movie.”
I have 2 Trek shirts, 3 Star Wars, 2 Doctor Who, and a Stargate shirt. Where do I fall?
But one of my Trek shirts is a blue Andorian Mining Consortium shirt, (They run from no one) and it’s so awesome.
If I was bleeding out in the street, and you approached me to help in a Doctor Who shirt, I would pretend I’d already died.
Damn didn’t know the doctor who fandom was so hated
Depends on the day I suppose.
You can’t wear them all at once
I enjoy Star Wars for specific reasons that I like in entertainment. The ragtag underdog fighting a strong oppressor and winning. The classic fantasy story, but in space. Swords. Small fighters dogfighting more than large ships shooting at each other.
Now, that’s entertainment, in an action fantasy judgement. Would I want to live in a Star Wars universe over a Star Trek universe? Absolutely not. Do I agree with the moral guidelines of either major side of Star Wars? Again, not really. I definitely don’t like the empire, but even the Jedi are too much of religious fundies to me. I also think the lessons/message of Trek is generally better too.
It’s a bit like food that’s tasty but not good for you. I enjoy it, but I’m not claiming it’s the better of the two.
