For Teh Lols

I've got a shit-ton of funny pictures on my hard drive, harvested from the darkest reaches of the Internet. 4chan, the blogosphere, and all the little nooks and crannies in between. I know every blog has some kind of "Regularly Posted Funny Pictures Assembled" post. But there are some real gems out there. So as an on-going feature, I'm gonna pick some of the fucking funniest every day or so and serve 'em up piping hot to you.

The Shat Lays It Down: Or, How I Learned To Stop Fighting Over Star Trek and Star Wars and Love...One of Them

Ohhh, William Shatner. He tweeted this interview in which he explains that Star Trek was superior to Star Wars, listing, among other advantages, that Star Wars was "derivative" of Star Trek:

Now, I will say this: Star Wars is derivative of almost everything else (including, in the prequels, itself), but one thing it is NOT derivative of is Star Trek. I think people like to fight about these two because they're simply the two biggest kids on the sci-fi block. But it's like fighting about Ghostbusters vs. Back to the Future. Sure, they're arguably the two biggest sci-fi comedies of the 80's. But they cater to different sensibilities...different senses of humor, and exhibit different themes and styles of storytelling.

Similarly, I've always felt that Star Trek and Star Wars are just built differently, for different people, and that fighting about which one is "better" is just silly. Star Trek might have come first, but Star Wars is no less valid for coming later, and Star Trek is no less influential, despite being sometimes overshadowed by Star Wars' influence on the movie industry.

For me, the thing that allows me to separate the two and my love (or passive-aggressive longing for earlier iterations) for them is that they're really not in the same genre at all. Star Trek is science fiction, and Star Wars is science fantasy.