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Star Wars Vs. Star Trek - Papers Online

Star Wars Vs. Star Trek

In my opinion Star Wars is much more sophisticated and detailed than Star Trek. The more laid back Star Trek fans known as Trekkies will disagree, while the rabid Star Trek group called Trekkers would set their phasers on kill. I intend to discuss the major ideas and technology of Star Wars and Star Trek in this essay. Personally Star Wars is the better concept, millions of other fans that have been touched by the Star Wars myth around the world will agree.
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek as a kind of socialist morality play that hit the airwaves in the late sixties and ran for three years. It was cancelled by Paramount after three years and has been in syndication ever since. ...

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9, Voyageur and new film adventures have kept these ideas going. Gene Rodenberry was the official historian to the Los Angeles police department before he wrote Star Trek. The L.A. police of the time and even today are feared for their police state style tactics. Star Trek was always on the verge of being laughable, long underwear style costumes, and fake monsters, and plaster planets. This changed with Star Trek the Motion Picture made by Paramount after Star Wars hit big. Trekkies might whine about the superiority and "science" of the Star Trek but before Star Wars they were reduced to watching Captain Kirk wrestling with bad latex monsters. Star Wars pushed the limit of the special effects world and allowed a whole new technology to be created for filmmaking. The Star Trek movies models and effects were designed and built by Industrial Light and Magic, a company started by a guy named George Lucas…
George Lucas today is a bearded messiah of every kid that ever saw Star ...

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Added: 1/5/2008 05:23:18 PM
Category: American History
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