I guess since no one else will be the apologist, allow me to play "l'advocate de diablo" or something like that.

while I think that without "trekkies" and "trekkers", there would be no star wars dorks (watch tv for about 30 seconds...they'll be on...), nobody in this arena would be talking about "surround sound" or how great the sound in the different theater setups would be. am i wrong here? when you got that first surround setup with the HI-FI vcr, did you put in the Star-Trek movies? maybe a few of you, but my gut tells me that more than a few of you were busting out that THX vhs version of...dum da dum....Star Wars.

What movie franchise has been parodied more? Remember Hardware Wars? Spaceballs? Remember the Star Trek movie that borrowed the Cantina scene?

I will, of course grant that ST has more of a social concience in its writing...SW was meant for light-hearted entertainment. So, in the immortal words of Butthead, "If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." "Yeah, learning sucks." (but now that I mention it, B&B did parody ST).

anyway...discuss amongst yaselves.