BattleStar Galactica vs Star Trek.

[DanCa]

I really think that Battlestar Galactica has officially surprassed Star Trek in my eyes as the priemer scifi tv show. I am not flaming anyone's favorite character or love of the star trek genere. I still watch DS9 and Vic Fontaine and Ben Sisko are ranked among my favorite characters in all of fiction. But I think that the writting just surprasses what we have seen lately from the trek world.

This is the first television show were I cannot name a favorite character on it because I love them all and that has not happened before. Even durrering Angel's heydey I disliked Conner. Anyhow that's just my opinion and we know what opinions are like. Have a happy all. And dont mind me am going thru Galactica withrdrawl until Janurary.

[NervousRex]

1. Voyager

was a major BG rip-off...I like the new BG series, as long as they keep it moving.

[NaturalHigh]

2. Star Trek is still tops for me.

My biggest problem with ST is that its character was so diluted by the seemingly neverending new versions. They should have stopped with The Next Generation. DS9 was okay for a couple of years but it was really out there by the end of the series. Voyager and Enterprise sucked from day one, IMHO.

[DanCa]

3. I think the overkill is what did it for me too

I also didn't care for the way thye handled Sisko's vanishing vs the Pah Raiths.

[NaturalHigh]

6. I don't even remember that.

I think I had pretty much tuned out by that time.

[auntAgonist]

4. Battlestar Galactica

gets my vote!

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[Deja Q]

5. It's plot and character quality that count most.

Remake Galactica has cardboard for characters (so the "first latino in space" could have been a honkey or even a gerbil and nothing would be different) and the most maudlin when not melodramatic storylines ever scribbled onto paper.

Trek TNG (the tv series) half-pioneered the drivel-drama and it's got a boatload of cardboard as well; though the Data/Geordi relationship is a strong point.

Both also feature Ronald D Moore, which explains why episodes from both series are just as lacklustre and dreary.

That being said, both have their share of competent stories. But the overdramaticized nature and the seeming increase in putting sci-fi concepts on the wayside is not redefining sci-fi as a genre. It is exterminating it.

[ikri]

7. Star Trek characters are almost caricatures

None of them have any real flaws in their personalities. They're inoffensive and heroic.

The new Battlestar Galactica series avoids this. The characters are hugely flawed, Commander Adama is a good commander but he's also a complete bastard. Starbuck is an amazing pilot, but she's someone you'd probably avoid given the chance. All the characters follow this pattern, it makes them far more believable than the average Star Trek character (assuming they don't add new characters like a captain who plays an alien flute and spends all his spare time delving into archeology, or a thousand year old wise-sage bar tender).

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I don't think they can be fairly compared - they're entirely different

Just because they have space ships doesn't mean they have the same agenda.

Their styles are completely different, their vision of the future is entirely different, and, most importantly, the goal of their story-telling is entirely different.

It's like comparing Star Trek and Star Wars, too. Entirely different species.