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  Knife Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Star Trek versus Star Wars - Star Trek versus Star Wars typically refers to an ongoing dispute between fans of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
Star Trek vs Star Wars mod - The Star Trek vs Star Wars mod was created around the turn of the century and was released in 2001.
A different type of blade-throwing, using a throwing star due to its multiple points, unlike a knife, whose single point is its only means of holding firm in the part of the artwork kidnap Kelly, John becomes her only hope for survival.
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 Bakula new Star Trek captain - The Cellar
Even the actress (name forgotten) who replaced the waitress on Cheers and who starred in Veronica's Closet was basically discovered because of her acting part in a Star Trek movie.
Star Trek traditionally is where people get famous because of their acting abilities - not where regular series characters are created from already well known actors.
He has the look of a Star Trek captain, but given his character in Quantum Leap, it's hard to put him in the character of a captain.
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 Trek Vs Star Wars: CRAVE SCI-FI
"Star Trek: Enterprise" aired its final episode on Friday, May 13, and "Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith," which appears to be the last film of the series, opens on Thursday, May 19.
The 1977 "Star Wars" movie is the biggest film of the franchise, grossing $503 million worldwide, which would translate into $1.61 billion in 2005 dollars.
Star Wars: The number of CDs with the words "Star Wars" in the title now number at least 198, and they also are mostly soundtracks and audio books.
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 Indianapolis Star Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Star Wars live-action TV series - The Star Wars live-action TV series is a science fiction television series currently set to debut in 2008, and will be an Expanded Universe production set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy.
Star Map (Star Wars) - Star Maps, in the Star Wars videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, were ancient semi-sentient devices created during the reign of the Rakatan Infinite Empire.
Star Trek versus Star Wars - Star Trek versus Star Wars typically refers to an ongoing polemic between fans of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
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 Star Trek versus Star Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Star Wars proponents argue that their favorite series follows the classical forms of mythology as documented by Joseph Campbell and employs Jungian archetypes, making it the more serious and mature form of entertainment.
The plot framework of Star Wars has been suggested to endorse an elitist viewpoint of society, and some have accused George Lucas of using aliens to depict racial stereotypes, or Jedi mysticism to promote deathism [1].
As the documentary-style approach began to gain favor, Star Wars proponents with backgrounds in mathematics and physics were able to put together calculations derived from the film evidence pointing to lower-level power estimates of Star Wars capabilities that were far greater than had been previously accepted.
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 Angel Swan's Worlds of Star Trek: Star Trek vs. Star Wars Survey - from February 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Star wars weapons have no frequency, and thus the borg cannot adapt to them, as evidenced by the fact they cannot adapt to worf's cutting toys and picard's bullets.
Star trek would win easy, star wars only has one death star and yes it is powerful but it can only be in one system at a time destroying one planet at a time.
Star Wars fans must have forgotten the fact that the Federation, the Borg, and Speices8472 are all far more Technologicaly advanced, Plus that Star Wars Ships cant analyze other ships for weak points, or send away teams and most Trek Ships can take alot of damage befor their unable to fight.
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 Star Trek: Armada II - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Star Trek: Armada II From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.
Star Trek: Armada II is a real-time strategy game, published by Activision in 2001.
Star Trek: Armada II takes place from stardate 54522 to approximately one month after stardate 54760, some six months after the events of the first game.
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Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of The Force - Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of The Force is a Game Boy Advance game that follows Luke Skywalker through Episodes IV to VI.
Star Trek versus Star Wars - Star Trek versus Star Wars typically refers to an ongoing dispute between fans of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises.
For more than twenty years, George Lucas fiber model optic plastic star war and the technical wizards at ILM have literally changed the face of moviemaking with their stunning, often unbelievable, visual effects.
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Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy - Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy is a Super NES and Mega Drive/Genesis flight simulation game that simulates the life of a typical Starfleet cadet.
The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual - The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual (Ballantine Books 1975, reprinted in 1986) is a "fiction reference" book by Franz Joseph about the workings of Starfleet, a military, exploratory, and diplomatic organization featured in the television series Star Trek.
Green Star Juicer - Green Star Juicer       Star Wars Republic 27: Star Crash - Star Crash is the 27th issue in the Star Wars ongoing comic series.
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 Links - DS9: Dominion Wars
STAR TREK and related elements are trademarks of Paramount Pictures.
The release late last year of Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen proved that publisher Simon and Schuster Interactive could bring a well done and solid game based on the classic TV series to PCs.
These are not the zip-zing frenetic battles of Star Wars, but rather tactical dances that engage the intellect and test a captain’s true heroism -- or a gamer’s true mettle.
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 Salon Movies | "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In "Star Trek," the big ship is heroic and the cooperative effort required to maintain it is depicted as honorable.
In "Star Trek," when authorities are defied, it is in order to overcome their mistakes or expose particular villains, not to portray all institutions as inherently hopeless.
Above all, "Star Trek" generally depicts heroes who are only about 10 times as brilliant, noble and heroic as a normal person, prevailing through cooperation and wit, rather than because of some inherited godlike transcendent greatness.
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 Guild Wars for PC Review - PC Guild Wars Review
In the world of Guild Wars, the men are men, and the women are runway models.
While combat in Guild Wars rewards skillful planning and coordination between players, many of the best Guild Wars players will surely be the ones who invest the largest number of hours into the game--not only honing their talents, but also seeking out the best skills and equipment in the role-playing portion.
Guild Wars Factions is a new chapter in the Guild Wars saga, and it includes new regions, professions, skills, missions and enemies, as well as additional PvP and guild options.
www.gamespot.com /pc/rpg/guildwars/review.html   (1417 words)

  
 BBspot - Nolan Curtis: Star Wars vs. Star Trek
Star Trek, on a more adult angle titillates its dateless viewers with unreasonably hot women like Seven of Nine, T'Pol, Tasha Yar, and that's not to mention the green-skinned slave girls of Orion.
Star Trek, in almost every instance, goes to the laborious extreme of adding bumps to people's foreheads, points to their ears, or giving them really bad haircuts.
Star Wars' aliens are like the kind of thing you have nightmares about after eating bad cottage cheese.
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 Star Wars Technical Commentaries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Star Wars Technical Commentaries are a set of detailed documents exploring the nature and limits of the technology of the Star Wars universe.
SWTC attempts to physically rationalize the depiction of technology and science in the Star Wars franchise, an effort that has provoked mixed reactions from online fans and particularly amongst participants in the ongoing Star Trek versus Star Wars debate.
Incredible Cross Sections of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Incredible Cross-sections of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, two official publications by Dorling Kindersley also written by Dr. Saxton, draw on material and insight available at SWTC.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Wars_Technical_Commentaries   (219 words)

  
 Star Wars vs Star Trek Essays: Logical Fallacies
In the first Star Wars example, the person makes you choose between "unstoppable chain reaction" and "not a chain reaction at all", even though the there are countless boundary conditions which might limit a chain reaction (and do, in real life).
In the Star Wars example, he tries to portray my position as "extreme", and compares it to the ridiculous Trekkie position that their tiny organization could stand up to an Empire with thousands of times their numbers, speed, and firepower.
In the second Star Wars example, the person makes the utterly absurd argument that since the Federation defeated two superior enemies (the Dominion with a lot of help, the Borg thanks to their staggering stupidity), they must be capable of defeating all superior enemies.
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"Star Trek: Enterprise" aired its final episode on Friday, May 13, and "Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith," which appears to be the last film of the series, opens on Thursday, May 19.
The 1977 "Star Wars" movie is the biggest film of the franchise, grossing $503 million worldwide, which would translate into $1.61 billion in 2005 dollars.
Star Wars: The number of CDs with the words "Star Wars" in the title now number at least 198, and they also are mostly soundtracks and audio books.
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 The "Versus" Culture
The "Versus" culture is a way by which fans of different soft sci fi franchises compare the capabilities of the ships and tech in their respective universes.
Star Wars vs Star Trek, in which he argues, with great persuasiveness, as to the superiority of Star Wars technology over Star Trek technology (assuming for the sake of argument that the tech that both franchises describe could actually work).
As to how one person can argue that Star Wars can easily beat Star Trek, and the other that Star Trek can beat Star Wars, both using canonical sources, reminds me of how radically different religious sects can each base their beliefs on the same Bible.
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 Star Wars vs Star Trek Essays: Star Wars vs Star Trek in Five Minutes
First, Star Wars vs Star Trek normally means "could the Empire kick the Federation's ass".
Generally speaking, the sheer scale of the Empire (millions of planets, able to build moon-sized Death Stars) is vastly greater than that of the Federation, so Trekkies try to take the sheer size and numerical advantage of the Empire out of the equation, and simplify matters into straight ship vs ship comparisons.
This approach has strengths and weaknesses; the visual look of each series is often more consistent than published material (particularly in the case of Star Trek, where the TM contradicts itself repeatedly and has several astonishingly bad science errors.
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 Attack of the 50 Foot DVD: Versus (2001)
Speaking of Cannes, two of the other extras appear to be French-produced: one, an interview with film editor Shuichi Kakesu, and a Making of in which Kitamura and various actors discuss the project in a variety of languages.
This one also contains contains one of the most sadistic passages in the whole set: it is revealed that Sakaguchi broke a tooth while rehearsing a particularly ludricrous bit with a gun in his mouth.
Last, and certainly least, is "Team Versus", a gag video in which Kitamura ushers the camera into his office, only to find Sakaguchi pulverizing a punching bag and everybody else holding swords.
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 Star Wars: Blogs | Urbansprawl | Happy 40th, Star Trek!
so far i've read a collection of three stories by Alan Dean Foster, "Star Trek: Log One/ Log Two/ Log Three ("Beyond the F a r t h e s t Star," "Yesteryear," and "One of Our Planets Is Missing")."...parts of these stories were adapted from scripts by other writers, presumably from the TV show.
Star Wars is a good vehicle for more of the moral principals of "good" and / versus "evil." SW is closer to Fantasy in many ways than it is to Sci-Fi...
PS i thought there was another ST book that i've read, only i a couple of chapters from it so far: "The Metaphysics of Star Trek" by Richard Hanley.
blogs.starwars.com /Urban-sprawl-05/65   (766 words)

  
 Star Wars TV in 07: CRAVE SCI-FI
Star Wars may be over on the big screen, but fans have every reason to be excited.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is set to be the biggest grossing theatrical release of the year and will be available on DVD in less than a month.
Knowing Lucas, he will be using cutting edge technology to add yet another new dimension to the Star Wars saga.
www.craveonline.com /scifi/articles/00002948/star_wars_tv_in_07.html   (653 words)

  
 brandchannel.com | Star Trek brand | brands | brand | branding news
Star Trek limped its way to 79 episodes—enough for syndication—before NBC put it out of its misery.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) brought back one of the villains from the original series (Khan Noonien Singh) and offered an exciting romp through the galaxy that cemented the brand's revival as a film series.
Unlike its closest "competitor," Star Wars (Star Trek versus Star Wars debates are unfortunately popular among the most fervent fans of both franchises), Star Trek seems to be in a fallow period.
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 Film Frontier Reviews: The truth about "Star Wars: Unaltered" - Opinions on Star Trek, Superman, Star Wars, and other ...
Though I prefer the more realistic Star Wars video games in the three minutes a year I have time to play, I remember finding the first LEGO Star Wars preview trailer pretty funny.
Star Wars: Unaltered is a marketing tool to sell more copies of LEGO Star Wars II.
This will be the version of Star Wars I watch most of the time, and I’ll watch the 2004 version whenever I finally get around to doing that six movie saga marathon.
www.thefilmfrontier.com /reviews/2006/09/truth-about-star-wars-unaltered.htm   (2394 words)

  
 NG BBS - Star wars Vs. Star Trek
See me persinally I would probably say star wars is a better movie but in the end with star trek's technology Vader can be beamed directly into the sun and perish.
Star Trek is much more intellectual, covering many aspects from philosophy to theoretical physics, it has also trancsended television dealing with socially relevant issues, and has revolutionized the world inspiring inventions like the cell phone among other things.
Star Trek is one day going to happen, unless we somehow don't make it to Alpha Centauri within the time that the sun explodes.
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 Star Trek Minis... - Wizards Community
One major thing Star Trek has going for it is that their weapons are a lot more accurate than in Star Wars.
We have boring A diplomat in star wars minis with overpowered special abillities that is also in the faction with the most overwhelming ce's and has affinity with the faction with almost as ovewhelming ce's yet in the movies he only got people to shut up.
Star Trek is hours upon hours upon hours of TV with books, games, cartoons, and all that.
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 Star Wars versus Star Trek (Research for fanfiction I might write)
You know Star Wars is always in a galaxy far far away wouldn't it be really really cool if the fedaration and Republic could one day meet, or maybe the Federation and the Empire now that would be cool.
the borgs are making their way to star wars town and the enterprise goes to warn cresant, or whomever about them.
Judging by the last Star Wars movie, odds are that the Jedi would have established an oppressive dictatorship of their own, and Kirk and his buddies would be forced to rescue the poor folks under their rule.
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