TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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.

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.

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.

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.

The shirt:

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.

With the laugh track edited out:

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

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.

Where does 40k fall on this spectrum? Is it just a nope by default or is it dependent on faction or memetics.

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

what about someone in a stargate shirt

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.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

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."

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.

It's a bit of a shame for Star Wars that Darth Vader and stormtroopers have become so iconic.

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.

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.