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Which is more realistic?

Which is more realistic?

  • Star Trek

  • Star Wars

Results are only viewable after voting.
So how come in both series they have fake fake gravity on the ships when they could just build the ships with properly oriented decks and have real fake gravity?
 
Star Trek is almost as unrealistic as Star Wars, but they at least TRY to explain everything using (pseudo)science. Star Wars is really just space fantasy, not really science fiction.

Babylon 5 is more realistic in that they at least take gravity into account - the B5 station rotates to create artificial gravity, and human spaceships have rotating sections with gravity as well. Ships without artificial gravity show the crew strapped in the whole time. It would be expensive to put people on wires for every scene.
 
Neither one of these is a great example of realistic science fiction...but Star Trek at least makes an effort, even if the technobabble ends up amounting to little more than a hand wave.

Star Wars is about as realistic as Harry Potter.
 
Can anyone describe some known explanations for some Star Trek devices or technologies? I'm curious...
 
PingSpike said:
Neither one of these is a great example of realistic science fiction...but Star Trek at least makes an effort, even if the technobabble ends up amounting to little more than a hand wave.

Star Wars is about as realistic as Harry Potter.
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Star Trek isn't 100% realistic, but up until Voyager most of the technology was based on ideas that were shown to be plausable based on physics. And arguably, Star Trek has led to more real world technologies than Star Wars.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_William_Shatner_Changed_the_World
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814142/
http://www.amazon.com/How-William-Sh.../dp/B000M9BSBO

I'd vote for William Shatner over Star Trek or Star Wars
i even saw him on an episode of American Pickers, so he is the most realistic

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Star Wars is better, but Star Trek is more realistic, and it's almost entirely because of The Force. Without the presence of a mystical Force that surrounds everything and can be controlled by certain sorcerors, Star Wars becomes a lot more realistic and a lot less awesome.

Then again, Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so what we know about the physics in that part of the Universe is based solely on extrapolation of what we know about physics in our own part of the Universe; it could be drastically different. Star Trek takes place hereish, so anything that seems to defy what we know of physics (transporters, for example) can't be explained by saying "Oh, we just don't know what the physics were like there."
 
The societal structures and people of Star Wars are more realistic; the human race is just too goody-goody in Star Trek and I find that unrealistic. Aside from occasional stuff like Q, Star Trek has minimal magic and more reality-based science and therefore wins the science comparison.
 
torpid said:
The societal structures and people of Star Wars are more realistic; the human race is just too goody-goody in Star Trek and I find that unrealistic. Aside from occasional stuff like Q, Star Trek has minimal magic and more reality-based science and therefore wins the science comparison.
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This is why I prefer Star Trek to Star Wars. I hate "magic" And the people in Star Trek where only Goody-Goody when Roddenberry was alive. After he died, the human race got a lot more realistic.
 
I said Star Wars just because I don't believe people will suddenly throw away money when they find out there are aliens out there. Picard said it in first contact, something about how everyone in the future works to better themselves and others, and there is no money.

And hey, the Force is because nanites or micro-organisms or some shit.
 
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