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[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

What about the one that has "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh..."?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of Star Wars fans are either idolizing the Empire and the Dark Side for their positions of power and control, or the Space Wizards who go out of their way to be naive and get struck down for the better good. If they're not wearing rebel gear, they're not default trustworthy.

If someone watches enough Trek to wear the gear and is open about it, they are at least not against diversity and equality in their fantasy choices.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Also, a lot of normies like Star Wars as a normal action franchise, so there's some general randomness to the sample. Star Trek pretty specifically appeals to that specific type of nerd, there's a lot more consistency in the results you can expect.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Jokes on all of you...I sport a shirt with Leto the God Emperor of Dune on it.

For the greater good of humanity, I don't want to see our extinction. Leto truly was the least selfish person/god to ever grace the Duniverse.

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Finally, a third worst option.

Star Wars guy might tell you to fuck off, give bad info over confidently, or expect something in return for their help

But God Emperor guy will lead you to a dark alley to shank you to protect the future gene pool from your weakness, and feel good about it.

[–] canthangmightstain@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago

It’s your fault for not seeing it coming really.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As Star Wars fan and someone who have been following the community for some time, i totally agreed with those people

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lucas when the merch prevailed

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[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

With the laugh track edited out:

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can someone tell me what my reaction to this poll should be?

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

Star Wars is too widely popular for much to be inferred by the shirt, whereas Star Trek fans tend to be more alike : nerdy, generally nice.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] JoeMontayna@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Too bad all their new stuff is garbage.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I saw this posted before elsewhere (but can't find it now). In that version, it was stated this was posted in a Star Wars forum, which makes it doubly hilarious if true.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not quite. It was posted on Tumblr, by a star wars focused account, with star wars tags, so mainly star wars fans saw it (at first).

At no point during the poll was star wars in the lead, but the poll did breach containment and got seen by most of the nerd community there, which definitely did not help the voting spread.

[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It had to be tumblr because of the useless included comment as a modern day laugh track

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 32 points 1 day ago (25 children)

what about someone in a stargate shirt

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[–] autonomous@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust them until they told me which ST series they loved.

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[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This has more to do with popularity than star wars or strek itself.

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