The Age-Old Battle: Star Wars vs. Star Trek [Infographic]

I am a huge fan of both Star Wars and Star Trek. I have taken my love of them both to the extremes of dressing as a Jedi, Sith and a Starfleet officer. I used to go out shopping in both my Next Gen and DS9 command uniforms. I love both equally and don’t think I could choose between them. But from the point of view of human development, surely Star Trek should take the lead. There’s a lot to learn from Star Wars too, but the morals of Star Trek are severely lacking in any show today. It tried to show us how we could be, to better ourselves as a species. Much of the technology dreamed up for Star Trek has become a reality (not saying Star Wars hasn’t, it has). Star Trek taught many lessons on things such as equality. It could make people better themselves. I know that I wouldn’t be where I am now, with the interests that I have, had it not been for Star Trek. As I said before, I am a huge fan of both SW and ST. But I really feel that television is lacking without a new Star Trek series. Soap operas don’t do anything positive for the development of humans, morally or technologically. We need Star Trek back, the lessons it taught and the inspiration it gave. Instead of focusing on our dull existence and blowing each other up, we should be reaching for the stars. They’re within our reach. We could have easily returned to the moon by now and gone to Mars, if we used the money currently used to kill each other to do these things instead. Surely Star Trek deserves some credit for the inspiration it gave?