Star Wars is better than Star Trek

Merchandise I concede that star wars made more sales from profit. But I don't believe that you can compare this against Star Trek, because the aims of the franchise was never to sell merchandise, which is evident, considering that small amount of merchandise the franchise makes itself, compared to items created by 3rd party manufacturers.CharactersMy opponent didn't specify what he meant by his reference to Darth Vader in the previous round, but he clarified it now. I'd like to argue that the alien cultures being relatable too is a huge factor in the sci-fi genre, especially shows that contain an outer space theme. For the in depth alien cultures, I will provide a link to a few main alien cultures [Romulan, Klingon] in here. Compare these to Star Wars, and you can see the detail and depth that went into creating them. http://en.memory-alpha.org... http://en.memory-alpha.org... Also, in the TV shows. The audience is always provided of knowledge of whichever alien culture that features in that episode, even if that culture was created just for that episode. Concerning the languages, the link that my opponent provided doesn't teach you how to speak a real language. Klingon has been much better developed. After exploring the link my opponent provided, I found the following menu list. Achuta! (Hello!) Welcome to the Huttese page! Here you will find: - An introduction and history of Huttese - A link to a dictionary of Huttese terms - A link to a dictionary of NON-CANON Huttese terms - Huttese number chart - A Lessons section - A link to transcription of all Huttese dialogue known to humankind - Alphabet and font gallery - Related links - Source section You can see here, this is just a dictionary, only providing translations of words and phrases. Even though the source I provided is called "the Klingon Dictionary," it also contains general grammar and structure rules, which shows that it is a better developed language overall. Story My opponent started this debate to compare the Star Wars and Star Trek FRANCHISES. This means that any fan fictions don't count towards this argument. My opponent states "The fans have taken the Star Wars universe to the very beginning of the Jedi...," while these fan fictions may or may not be taken seriously by the official Star Wars franchise, it is not an accurate portrayal of the franchise itself. But I will refute it nevertheless. In Star Trek, the beginnings of Starfleet are also known. The Klingon-Federation war, and the first contact with the Vulcans are detailed events that are talked about in Star Trek, and these details were provided by the official Star Trek production, and it wasn't just a widely accepted fan fiction. Sustainability My opponent here states that Star Wars doesn't need to keep making films to make profit, and survive as a franchise. He provides no real evidence for this, and it isn't totally plausable. Without new material, fans will only keep buying merchandise for so long. To suggest that a franchise, which has yet to release new material, can survive longer than a franchise that already has released new, successful, material, by simply selling merchandise based on it's older productions, is outrageous. Score For this category, while my opponent mentions that there is a higher number of Star Trek films compared to those of Star Wars, I fail to see how this equates to Star Wars having the overall better music as a franchise. Also, I didn't include the awards won by the Star Trek TV series, which are equal to, if not more, influential on the franchise as a whole. These include 5 primetime Emmy's won by Star Trek: The Next Generation alone. http://www.imdb.com... 7 music based awards for Star Trek: Voyager as well. http://www.imdb.com... So, in conclusion, Star Trek did have better music if you take into account the whole franchise. Cultural Impact For the quotes, I'd like my opponent to know that the link I provided did infact have 100 quotes on it, so by the fact that the quotes from Star Trek were simply present on the list means that they did make it to the Top 100. My opponent asked me to provide a source for the critcal acclaim brought by Star Trek. Star Trek: The Motion Picture won 2 awards for special effects. http://www.imdb.com... Star Trek: The Next Generation also won 3 Primetime Emmy's for visual effects. http://www.imdb.com... But Star Trek set a visual effects milestone with it's use of 3D scanning by Cyberware scanning software. This was the first cinematic use of this technology. - https://www.filmsite.org... For the technologies. I mentioned cell phones, because the communicator badge uses wireless communication between two people. And this badge was used in the Next Generation. While in the Original Series, they used handheld devices, that resemble mobile phones used today. Infact, this likeness inspired Motorola to name their flip phone the Motorola StarTAC. http://mashable.com... And concerning the Ion Drives. My opponed says that the idea for Ion Drives came long before the Star Trek TV series was released. But his source says otherwise, his source is simply a description of the technology used in the probe Deep Space 1, which was launched in the late 90's. At the bottom, it says that ion propulsion was under development since 1959. But the idea for the modern ion drive technology was inspired by Star Trek, NASA admits. Also, NASA doesn't deny Star Trek influences, which can be seen through their research to make the Enterprise's warp drive a reality. You can even see that on the diagram in the 1st source provided below, the ship underneath "light barrier" is clearly the USS Enterprise. http://www.nasa.gov... http://www.dailygalaxy.com... http://motherboard.vice.com... My opponent then says that there were no cultural barriers broken by Star Trek. But he only does this by saying black people have appeared in in shows before. But I will discredit his source here. His source talks about Lincoln Perry, a black hollywood actor known for portraying Stephin Fetchit, who was, according to the source my opponent provided "a befuddled, mumbling, shiftless fool." There was a high chance race played a part in his being cast as this character. According to the source, "Seen through a modern lens, Perry's "laziest man in the world" character can be painfully racist." Even more information from the source my opponent provided though, is that "black leaders were putting pressure on Hollywood to rid the screen of the stereotype he was responsible for creating. They believed the Stepin Fetchit character was keeping white America from viewing blacks as capable of joining the mainstream." This portrayal of by a black man, casts a very different light on his race compared to Ltn. Uhura, who was also a woman, in a time where women's rights were also an issue. Nichelle Nichols played an officer in a prestigous organization, which was a milestone. It didn't show black people as incompetent people, only able to portray witless, unintelligent characters. Also, the black actor in Star Wars isn't as big of a breakthrough, because that had already been done in popular science fiction before, by Star Trek. On the case of Billy Haines however, my opponent forgets that George Takei [the Japanese, and gay, actor from Star Trek] was from Japan. And there were racial tensions between White Americans and those of Japanese decent. In fact, George Takei even did a Ted Talk about how his family were forced into an internment camp, as a "security" measure during WWII. http://www.ted.com... Also, the case of Yul Brynner. My point wasn't that Walter Koenig [Chekov from Star Trek] was the first Russian actor, but I was just adding that his addition to an already diverse cast was just another example of the multiculturalism portrayed in Star Trek. That wraps up my rebuttals, as per my opponents request, I have not given any new arguments. I thank my opponent for this fun and engaging debate. May the best debator win. Live Long and Prosper.