Star Trek is better than Star Wars.

I know. I know. The Internet is the home of nerdiness, and some nerds (like, admittedly, me) are stubborn and unmoving in their self-righteous beliefs. The most dangerous thing a nerd can possibly do is attack a fellow nerd's favorite science fiction show. But even though I put my life on the line, I will go on. Burden Of Proof- I must convince the opposition (or at least the voters) that Star Trek is superior to Star Wars. Argument- A1. Star Trek has more content in it than Star Wars. There are six Star Wars movies at the moment. The average movie is 90 minutes, so that will be my BOP source. 90 multiplied by 6 is 540. 9 hours of Star Wars movies. Even if each movie were 10 hours long, it couldn't match Star Trek's overall amount of content. The Original Series contains 69 episodes, rounded to 70. Since advertising at the time was significantly less than it is today, 1 hour shows were 55, not 44, minutes. 70 multiplied by 55 is 3850 minutes. This amounts to almost 64 and 1/6 hours of Star Trek on the original series alone. Even counting Ewoks, Droids, and both Clone Wars, Star Wars cannot come close to the combined length of all the episodes. The Trek movies add another 20 hours or so to the equation as well. Also, an argument could be made for the Star Wars books. I say this- you are clearly uneducated about the sheer number of Star Trek books staring out at you from shelves on the local bookstore. A2. Star Trek is more dramatic. While blaster fire and laser cannons can be condensed into 6 movies, drama can be masterfully woven through installments that can last for massive lengths of time. Drama seems to be a vital part of acting. For some reason, watching characters interact in allegorical remakes of our daily lives is... inspiring. Perhaps watching them, we gain a better understanding of our own life. Or we feel better knowing that others suffer the same way we do. What would you do if contacted by Darth Vader? Star Wars would go on to the fighting. Star Trek would chat up Vader. After we see the awkward conversation between Good and Evil, we then get action. See A3. Star Wars, for what little drama it has, is choppily woven into a series of 6 movies that cannot compete with the sheer amount of time Star Trek is allocated to develop intricate storylines that span hours of powerful drama. See above. A3. Star Trek also has action. A specific example of this that comes to mind if the Battle of Wolf 359 in "The Best Of Both Worlds." (Spoilers Ahoy) In The Best Of Both Worlds, Captain Picard is abducted by the "Borg", an alien race bent of absorbing other cultures and taking their technology by means of invasion and the painful process of having your limbs amputated and replaced by "efficient" Tritanium or something that looks like black steel. They excuse this as "The Borg are the ultimate form of life. The Collective is awesome." Picard develops a hate for the Borg like no one else can after he is freed. So how do you free him? First you have an awesome, ludicrously one-sided battle where a Borg battleship single-handedly destroys every ship in the fleet except the Enterprise. I skipped over this episode when I first saw it. Then I realized that this is the epitome of Trek. It has drama (Picard's newfound hate for the Borg) and action (the Battle of Wolf 359.) Clearly, this series also has plenty of time for action-packed scenes. And they come often, especially in the Dominion War story arc for the last half of Deep Space Nine. I anxiously await the arrival of a Star Wars fan willing to debate me. Try to remain civilized, as their are far too many incoherent nerds who put up no fight. If you can remain civilized during this hopefully heated debate, I will be happy to comply. -The Godhand