Too often, nerds fight. Star Wars versus Star Trek. Original series versus The Next Generation. Nerds need to reconcile, accept the differences, and unite under the banner of nerddom, without judgement of other nerds.
Star Wars is a series of movies, with a couple animated spin-off TV series. Star Trek is a series of TV shows that happen to have movie spin-offs. But really, the two barely overlap. There really isn't any need to choose. Star Wars is a space opera, and Star Trek is a space drama. Get over yourselves.
The original series of Star Trek is campy, it's fun, it's quirky, and over-the-top. The Next Generation is a proper drama first, one that happens to take place in space. The differences parallel quite closely the original and new series of Battlestar Galactica. I mean the old one was terrible, and the new one is incredible. The older series of both shows relied on fantastic adventures, whereas the two newer series didn't even need to mention space to have a tense character-driven episode or even multi-episode arc. So of course the newer series have a broader appeal, and are generally of better quality, but really they're in a league of their own, and the original series are more in the style of the 60's era Adam West as Batman series. You really can't take them too seriously.
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