Star Wars vs Star Trek - the ultimate nerd battle

[Ed Anger]

Dune didn't even come out until 1984 anyways, so how could Star Wars be influenced by it?

Ironically, I remember when I first watched the Dune movie, I thought "This is a ripoff of Star Wars, only shittier."

I don't know how you sat through that abortion of a movie.

YUO = STRONG.

[Caliga]

I think they kept showing it over and over again on HBO one summer in the late 80s.  It probably took me like 7 or 8 partial viewings to see the entire thing.

HBO would get like fixated on certain movies for a period of several months and then show them over and over and over and OVER again.  Movies that I recall falling into this category include:

Yes, Giorgio!
Romancing the Stone
Weekend at Bernie's
Big Trouble in Little China
Little Monsters
Outrageous Fortune
Uncle Buck

[Ed Anger]

HBO was a favorite for me too when I was playing hooky from school. MY STOMACH HURTS.


Yor, the Hunter from the Future. Be there or be square.

[ulmont]

Dune didn't even come out until 1984 anyways, so how could Star Wars be influenced by it?

Ironically, I remember when I first watched the Dune movie, I thought "This is a ripoff of Star Wars, only shittier."

I don't know how you sat through that abortion of a movie.

YUO = STRONG.

"I will kill him!  I will!"

[Ed Anger]

I did love Baron Harkonnen's grav thingy. 

[DontSayBanana]

I'd have thought you loved the floating space turds that were the Guild Navigators.

[Ed Anger]

I'd have thought you loved the floating space turds that were the Guild Navigators.

I only care about my own turds. 

[Valmy]

I know jack about Star Trek I just never got it but my wife loves it.  I sorta enjoyed the most recent movie which would alone probably get me crucified by hard core Trekkies or something.

Star Wars was great but was ruined by the prequels...I did enjoy the Old Republic games so I guess I will go with that.

[jimmy olsen]

Although I did enjoy alot of the Star Wars books for the pulp they are, the new trilogy was painful. So Star Trek, love TNG, DS9 and movies 2,4,6,8, and 11. The books Shatner had ghost written for him were pretty amusing too.

[Eddie Teach]

hard core Trekkies

Aren't the hard core ones called Trekkers?

[Caliga]

Trekkie = obsessed with TOS
Trekker = obsessed with TNG

[Admiral Yi]

I thought Trekker was what Trekkies call themselves.

[jimmy olsen]

I know jack about Star Trek I just never got it but my wife loves it.  I sorta enjoyed the most recent movie which would alone probably get me crucified by hard core Trekkies or something.

Star Wars was great but was ruined by the prequels...I did enjoy the Old Republic games so I guess I will go with that.

Black Holes don't work that way and even if they did the Romulans wouldn't need any help from Spock to fix their Sun. Because unlike the Federation which relies on antimatter reactors, Romulan Warbirds are powered by artificial quantum singularities, so they're already experts on black holes.

That aside I really enjoyed that movie anyways.

[Valmy]

Aren't the hard core ones called Trekkers?

I know about as much about Star Trek as I do about Afghanistan buggy racing so I have no idea.

[Ed Anger]

Trekkie = obsessed with TOS
Trekker = obsessed with TNG

Both of them = virgins