It's a bit of a shame for Star Wars that Darth Vader and stormtroopers have become so iconic.

I saw this posted before elsewhere (but can't find it now). In that version, it was stated this was posted in a Star Wars forum, which makes it doubly hilarious if true.

The shirt:

I was just about to ask where it was posted...

Star Trek and Star Wars are apples and oranges. One doesn't have to be better because they're totally different things.

what about someone in a stargate shirt

Me, staring at a guy in a Star Wars shirt: "Bet he thinks he's the center of the universe."

Me, staring at a guy in a Redshirt: "This is the kind of person that'll catch a phaser for me."

I’ve always felt Sheeran looked a lot like Weyoun 6

Eh, I'm not seeing it.

lol fucking autocorrect

This is glorious

So you're saying you'd participate in the Star Trek wars, rather than the Star Wars trek?

That's who you get your supply from

The Dominion did nothing wrong!

The Venn diagram of people who enjoy Star Wars and Star Trek is almost just one circle. You jiggle it a little, but your opinion isn't statistically significant.

I watch Star Wars for blaster shootouts, space wizards, and spaceship fights.

I watch Star Trek for moral dilemmas, courtroom dramas, and sociopolitical commentary.

Except when I watch Andor then I watch it for all the above.

They better tell me where to find one.

And if another person tells me Chulak without giving me gate access, their butt is going to have a foothold situation.

Disney tax.

Hey, the poll says, "trust more", not which one you'd trust at all.

Both IPs have had some real stinkers from their new owners, and both have now had quite a broad scope of styles of content, too. So it's a bit silly to say one is absolutely superior unless it's a question of opinion and taste.

Star Trek probably has more hours of good content, but that is solely because the older series had many seasons of 20+ episodes.

Hey, I know we're all just bullshitting, but dreaming up fake statistics to invalidate someone else's opinion is really fucking dumb. Also, using statistics at all to invalidate someone, as if we all have to ascribe to the majority opinion, is really fucking dumb. Just all-around really dumb.

Where do we put Babylon 5 shirts on this scale?

Jail. Straight to jail.

I stand with Jellico!

There's a lot of overlap I'm sure. But it's probably not nearly as close as you imagine it is. They're different enough that you could replace either circle with any vaguely sci-fi thing and get pretty similar results.

I wish that were true. He seems play more component characters than mine.

Treat them nice, they probably think all problems are solved with C4.

But is it dumb?

I feel like it says more about the values of the fans than anything else. This isn't too say that Star Wars fans are bad as a fandom, but that Star Trek fans are more likely to help in times of need.

Maybe he looks more like Weyoun 4?

Suspected rabid imperialist of their favorite air force propaganda less than zero trust.

Much less unironic cardassian empire or dominion fans than the multitude of empire fans.

If you value your lives, be somewhere else.

One is a sci-fi and one is fantasy in space. Totally different genres.

I mean, they don't need to be zingers, just competently written. It'd help if they stuck to the core tenants of Trek, too...

What is a Star Wars shirt?

Listen, I go to war in Star Trek, I'm probably fine. Maybe my ship gets blown up, maybe I get superpowers from an alien super consciousness. But by the end of the war I'll be fine.

I go anywhere in Star wars and the best case scenario I'm merely left alone to live in squalor.

C4 solves every problem you have but also has a 97% chance of creating an even worse problem.

I get where you're coming from, but I'd like to draw your attention to this particular exchange from SG-1 S01E16:

Colonel, the United States is not in the business of interfering in other people's affairs.

...Since when?

They were always a little coy about the propaganda angle.

That is correct. I saw the same reference to the OG post on a SW forum last time this made the rounds.

Not quite. It was posted on Tumblr, by a star wars focused account, with star wars tags, so mainly star wars fans saw it (at first).

At no point during the poll was star wars in the lead, but the poll did breach containment and got seen by most of the nerd community there, which definitely did not help the voting spread.

Ah, thanks for the background!

Just keep applying C4 until you hit that 3%.

The venn diagram of people who think it’s dumb is almost just one circle.

100%, it's literally a samurai, a cowboy and a princess against and evil space wizard.

Was it this?