Comment by filoleg

Comment by filoleg 18 hours ago

Not every nerdy person is into Star Trek?

Star Wars is imo way more mainstream than Star Trek these days (especially with Disney pumping it), but even then there are tons of people in their 20s working in tech who haven’t seen it and have no interest in it.

I don’t think there was more than one person on my previous Android team who would’ve gotten the Tricoder reference, and I was the youngest person there (29 years old at the time; learned about Tricoder literally just from this thread myself).

If you picked a random person working on Android source code and asked me to guess whether they know about Tricoder (without knowing any additional info about them), I would have decisively guessed “no”.

rs186 13 hours ago

About a decade ago I started watching Star Wars movies for the first time, when there were "only" 6 movies to finish. But by then there were already 12+ Star Trek movies plus TV series. I decided that I'd "choose" Star Wars, and that was enough for me. I am sure Star Trek is a fascinating universe, and I see it mentioned all the time, but I don't think I care about it enough to ever go into that world.

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filoleg 13 hours ago

Yeah, pretty much the same for me.
Plus, Star Wars universe just felt way more interesting and fascinating to me than Star Trek as a kid.
Star Wars felt like knights and wizards and jet fighter pilots and heroic adventures in space, Star Trek felt like “adults doing boring adult things… but in space”. Not trying to dismiss ST, clearly it has a lot of appeal to tons of people, but it had zero appeal to me as a child.
It also helped that SW universe had some of my favorite games at that time, like SW:Demolition (vehicle combat genre, similar to Twisted Metal), Jedi Knight series, Knights of The Old Republic, etc.

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- l72 10 hours ago
  
  I think it depends on if you lean more towards fantasy or sci-fi.
  Star Wars is space fantasy. Star Trek is science fiction.
  I’m not saying one is better than the other, but they appeal to different personalities.
  I personally struggle to get in to fantasy, whether that is Star Wars, DnD, or fantasy video games. I’d much prefer to have a court room debate about ethics in the future.
  The Star Wars vs Star Trek debate has always confused me as you are comparing two totally different genres.
  
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