For me it depends.
Do you want high energy combat with space wizards everywhere? Start Wars.
Do you want a commentary on the benefits of socialism and how interacting with alien species is extremely complex, while also showing the complicated interactions between species can usually always be overcome if you’re intelligent and wise enough to see the solution? Star Trek.
I’m gonna use your exact argument to argue for trek being my favorite by a ridiculous margin

Star…ring Alan Tudyk and Jewel Staire, Firefly… is the best franchise in the history of (video) Sci-Fi… because it’s a space Western with sass.
(But really, Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best franchise in Sci-Fi.)
alan tudyk sure gets thrown under the bus alot by networks, resident alien was cancelled like last year, and he was disappointed.
Ocean.
Fun games.
Second Story’s recent remake was SUCH A GOOD TIME. I love that game dearly.
Whores. I feel its self explanitory
Star Wars is a lot of things, but SciFi isn’t one of them.
Fox
Star Fox
Ocean
I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet. It feels relevant.

Edit: Context is that this was a NYT crossword puzzle that could be solved either way, depending on whether the user preferred Star Wars or Star Trek.
@UncleArthur@lemmy.world Why would you delete that! Aiken Drum is the fucking GOAT.
Stargate
Go watch the movie and the multiple series.
Wars, wait shit I meant Dune
Its not hard sci fi, but damn its fun thinking about that universe. Its like a low fantasy star wars and 40k but made for adults.
Ship Troopers.
Becuase it’s campy and gritty and funny and serious.
Fish
Many legs
Goose, because why not.






