Resolved: That Star Wars is Better than Star Trek

Hello everyone. This is probably the debate that is closest to my heart. Star Wars is definitely big and famous but that does not mean it is a great quality series. I will be arguing that Star Trek is better. First, I will list the reasons why Star Trek is great. The Borg The Borg have got to be the most awesome villains in science fiction. This race flies around in giant mechanical cubes and attack other civilizations. They will capture people and convert them into cyborgs hooked into a collective and losing independent free will. They add any new technology from cultures they conquer to their own making them far more advanced than anyone around them. In Star Trek First Contact, the Borg sends a single Borg cube to invade earth a second time. Whenever they are hailed, they refuse to negotiate and demand absolute surrender. We see the Borg cube attacked by a Federation fleet and suffering little damage and destroying dozens of ships. The cube is only destroyed by stratagem. Alien Races Alien races in Star Wars don't really get a lot of detail. We see these people who look different but don't really know much about them. In Star Trek we have the Klingon, an aggressive alien race very much like Vikings with Starships. The Romulans are imperialistic and manipulative very much like Romans in space. The Farenghi is a greedy race who care only care about business and money. Very amusing. There are many other races in Star Trek that are very interesting. The Vulcans is a race that are devoid of emotion and the most famous Vulcan featured is Spock. Spock makes logic look cool and it is funny to see how he clashes with Captain Kirk who tends to be a brash risk taker. The depth and detail of these races in Star Trek is very good. Time Travel There is lots of time travel in Star Trek. For example in the Voyage home Captain Kirk and Spock go back in time to save the whales. It is interesting to see the interacting with 1980s culture especially Spock. In First Contact we see them interact with a post WWIII culture. Sub-Warp Races It is also interesting to see them interact with sub warp races and the crew trying to fit in. First example in Into Darkness we see Captain Kirk escaping from a primitive culture chasing him while he is trying to save them from a volcano blast. Starships Star Wars have a few large starships. It has death stars which are big spheres, and imperial ships which are triangular. There is not a lot of diversity of ships. Star Trek has a wide variety of starships from many different races: Federation Starships, Klingon, Romulan, and Borg. Klingon and Romulan ships are capable of cloaking meaning they can make themselves invisible when not firing. Starship battles Space battles in Star Wars usually consist of small space pods shooting at each other. Battles in Star Trek often consist of duels between large starships that involve complex tactics. These are featured in Wrath of Khan where Captain Kirk picks up a group of people in Cryogenic sleep in an ancient earth craft. It turns out that these people are people genetically modified to be mentally and physically superior to normal humans and were rulers earlier in earth's history. These people have a thirst for power and are basically psychopaths. One of them named Khan is woken up and quickly learns about the Enterprise and almost takes it over. He is banished to a planet that them later becomes uninhabitable killing his wife. When he finally gets off the planet he takes over a starship and comes after Kirk for revenge. In the two latest Star Trek movies, Nero, a Romulan Captain goes back in time when his home planet is destroyed by its star and the Federation failed to save it. He kills Kirk's father and destroys Vulcan changing the time-line. Kirk fights him and eventually wins. In this timeline Khan is found by another Captain who forces him to build weapons for the federation. His revenge is against this captain and major Starship battles ensue between him and Kirk. There are several battles with Klingons in the movies and one featuring Captain Picard and a clone of Captain Picard in Star Trek Nemesis. This clone was brought up in Romulan mines and became evil and attacks the Federation with a very advanced starship which Picard has to defeat. That is all I will say for now and will address the intellectual quality of both series, and the quality of their stores in more detail along with a critique of Star Wars and its horrid prequels.