[SWSW] Why can't we be friends?

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Being a Star Wars fan is easy. You just have to hate Star Wars.
- As someone who likes all trilogys I never feel like a star wars fan
As both a Star Trek and Star Wars fan, I'm confused.
- I just like space shit
  
  Same. I love Red Dwarf and Babylon 5 too.
  
  Hell yeah brother! Space, the outside place!
  
  Er, the final frontier!
  
  -John Crichton
- As a ST+SW fan, half of me likes myself, but the other half doesn't like the first half.
  
  I don't think I have the necessary qualifications to assist you.
  
  As a ST&SW fan, I hate SW so it's all good I think.
- I prefer star trek because I feel like I can connect with it and enjoy it
  
  Star wars just feels like something I can use to switch my mind off and pass the time
- Harrison Ford as Number One? That's nightmare fuel.
I like both because I like sci-fi and fantasy, and Star Wars is space fantasy.
We just had a Star Wars crossover post on [email protected]! You are all welcome!
- I love your energy.
- Fixed link (at least in my client): [email protected]e
- Do you mean this post by Stamets?
  
  I'm dumb you mean the one about Vader lol
  
  Still from Stamets though!
I don't think Star Wars fans think about Star Trek all that much or necessarily even know about it. It hasn't been a big deal in such a long time.
I don't like star wars that much, because it's more acion than scifi
- Star Wars is Fantasy to Star Trek’s SciFi, IMO. These genres get lumped together in libraries and publishing, and there is significant crossover between them, but they are still distinct.
  
  George Lucas always said he hates it when people call Star Wars SciFi as he always considered it to be a space opera with very little Sci and heavy on the Fi.
  
  I think the distinction is a focus of drama vs action. Star Trek is mostly drama with a Sci Fi dressing and Start Wars is more action with a Sci Fi dressing. Neither are really based on science and both have magical space transportation that lets them move between planets.
  
  They are both great examples of doing what they set out to do, and why I am not a fan of the newer Star Trek movies and shows that try to be closer to the epic fantasy action of Star Wars. Just let them be their own things!
  
  I've never really agreed with this. In the scale of sci-fi softness, they're both in about the same territory. Star wars is slightly softer because of Jedis, but star trek has empaths for example.
  
  The main difference is that star trek tends to do a bit more of speculation about tech, and star wars is more about telling stories about fascism in space, but both do both at times.
We CAN be friends! ~~you just need to agree with our opinion on Tuvix~~
- just do something like what T'Lyn did and masterfully avoid the dilemma
- Both universes have torpedos right
  
  Of course!
Wow. It's like 1996 again.
While I love the meme pic, in all honesty I've always liked both of them in a way that both baseball and football are two very distinct sports that you can like both of as well.
We ain't no friends with Trekies
- You have it confused, nobody is friends with you
- Why not? I think ST is a fine fandom. Just not my flavor of scifi, or I didn't grow up with it.
  
  As a child, I was heavy into Star Wars and always meh on Star Trek. As an adult, I'm still heavy into Star Wars, but I have warmed significantly to Star Trek and really enjoy it now. I think I just didn't fully understand Star Trek as a child. They're very different, but both are great.
- Lol they are two different genres

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