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>>76234
I don't know. Star Wars, at least the original trilogy, has a grittiness to it. In Star Trek, everything looks like a hotel lobby. On TNG, the Enterprise has fucking carpet for Christ's sake. I get that it's not supposed to look like a military vessel because it's not, it's on a peaceful mission. But things should at least look lived-in. No one's quarters have any personality, everything is way too spic-and-span.
In Star Wars, the ships felt lived in and worked in. The world actually felt inhabited.
I'm a fan of Star Trek. I find it calming and comforting; it's slow moving, and somehow peaceful even when the characters are in danger. I don't watch it for the WORLD'S DEEPEST SCIENCE FICTION. I watch it for its usefulness as gentle, entertaining background noise and its depiction of a adventurous yet soothing future. It's hopeful, it's playful, and it is generally structured around simple mysteries. I'm talking about the Original Series, the Animated Series (which is actually my favorite) and TNG.
And despite the majority of alien's who are humanoid and communicate verbally, they occasionally do a great job of handling encounters with creatures that are completely alien. Like the TNG episode with Tin Man, or the Original Series episode with the Berserker. I wish the series had more of that kind of stuff; stories that emphasized the vastness of space and the variety and incomprehensibility of life in it, hinting at an unfathomable universe that the Enterprise is slowly pushing further and further out into. Sometimes TNG just feels like a show about a floating atrium running errands in a very tame and orderly universe but when they branch out, shit can get crazy.
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