Star Trek v. Star Wars (Star Trek is Better)

I feel bad about writing this, but as I read the my opponent's argument, everything fell apart. I nonetheless thank Pro for giving me an opportunity to defend Star Wars. Contention 1: Action Movie I was almost certain Pro was going to bring up how Star Trek has so many real-life issues. Even though he didn't, I can still use this to my advantage. The basis of Star Trek is to provide thought-provoking situations. Don't get me wrong. I love these moral dilemmas. But even more so, Star Wars brings in a much more entertaining aspect: adventure. So many of us want to leave our boring lives and become a hero. Star Wars is precisely that. It is the journey of a young man fighting evil and becoming a hero. Now, time for my rebuttals to your contentions: Rebuttal 1: Fan base Star Trek has a more devout fan base? Really? Who made more money? Who had people coming back on line for the next showing? Who made more money? Who won more awards? Star Wars has. [1] Please note: Now, I understand that you're going to rebut that most Star Trek movies have been made past 2000's, which are invalid in this debate. This will be a large dispute in this debate, as it is likely T.V. needs to provide a different experience then movie to be successful. We're going to need figure this out to have a successful debate. Don't get me started on the government and Star Wars. I don't even know how to fully describe this one. Just some things to spot in the link: -the Star Wars reference in the title -the abbreviation in third (or fourth if you count the bullet point) paragraph -almost 35,000 people signed this petition -several more Star Wars references -the fact that the government actually bothered to respond to this petition (notable since they don't usually respond to these kind of petitions -They calculated the price to make it Here is the link: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov... Rebuttal 2: Culture Now, I'm just going to provide a different perspective of what Pro wrote, which I'm kind of confused about. I'm chop this up piecemeal. "but we lack to recognize that Star Wars could have single-highhandedly ruined an entire genre of movies" Um, Pro could say that about a lot of things. If Toy Story was terrible, animation might not have the same kind of presence of it does now. Does that hurt Toy Story? No, it makes it all the better. "Now every Sci-fi movie to come from Hollywood is based upon a cookie-cutter template" Does this not help my case? All other movies recognize that's what's so great about Star Wars, so they copied it. Not only is it not Star Wars's fault, this shows how great it is. Contention 3: Sci-fi I'm going to take a big risk here and fully accept that Star Wars isn't Sci-Fi. Besides for my earlier point on why Star Wars is actually very close to home, here I'll write why Star Wars is pretty much Sci-Fi anyways. So, I first want to mention how irrelevant when Star Wars takes place to the debate. Think about it: would it have mattered that much is the opening line read "A time in the far away future". How big of an impact does it hold? Admittedly, not that much. It's only enough to disqualified. It's the same idea with the Force, because, um, ...., Forget it. You get this point. I disproved the real argument in my first argument. I'll just refute the other minor points you made. Boba Fett really represents the epic ability of Star Wars to create the meanest looking villains, only to be killed off in a pathetic way. As I've said before, he whole design of Star Wars isn't necessarily that one sees all villains as conflicted being, but as the embodiment of evilness which the hero fights. He just didn't reap the full potential to be viewed as more evil, because of his death. Now, I'm going to bring this last argument against my opponent. He says Star Trek has a very possible chance of coming true. While that may be exciting for us, it's bad news for Star Trek. Real life might be equally, if not surpassing, the excitement than the video. Then who needs the video? It will be discarded and forgotten. The point of Sci-Fi is to amaze us with futuristic technology, but if the technology is available, who needs the movie? This is why Star Wars surpasses Star Trek. Star Wars has technology that may never exist, so it will always excite the audience. I now hand the debate mike back to the phaser-wielding Pro, who's hand is getting awfully tighter around the trigger. 1. http://whatculture.com...