The shirt:
I’ve always felt Sheeran looked a lot like Weyoun 6
Eh, I’m not seeing it.
lol fucking autocorrect
This is glorious
Wow, I genuinely LOLed at that. And woke my wife.
I wish that were true. He seems play more component characters than mine.
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.
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.
It had to be tumblr because of the useless included comment as a modern day laugh track
This is such an accurate assessment, wow
Ah, thanks for the background!
I was just about to ask where it was posted…
That is correct. I saw the same reference to the OG post on a SW forum last time this made the rounds.
what about someone in a stargate shirt
That’s who you get your supply from
Treat them nice, they probably think all problems are solved with C4.
C4 solves every problem you have but also has a 97% chance of creating an even worse problem.
Makes me think of Jason from The Good Place.
I’m telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
Just keep applying C4 until you hit that 3%.
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.
Stargate shirt would be my homie
Indeed.
What about a Lexx shirt
Horny on main.
What about a Space Cases shirt?
790 shirt, Xev shirt, Xev shirt, or Lyekka shirt?
All three together for an interesting round of fuck/mary/kill.
Cool person. A Wormhole Xtreme shirt…super hoopy frood
Hoopy frood t-shirt, towel and a dressing gown?
I married her, but I guess that’s a personal choice
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Jail. Straight to jail.
Suspected rabid imperialist of their favorite air force propaganda less than zero trust.
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.
Stargate SG-1 is a lot more anarchic than Star Trek ever gets. Most of its episodes are about a group of people that almost always relies on knowledge/expertise rather than rank for decisions, trying to do their best to give societies the tools for their own liberation.
In Star Trek, it is presented as enlightened that the protagonists will let a genocide happen if its victims are too primitive to have rights (“prime directive”). In Stargate, every injustice is worth fighting against and every person is worthy of fighting it.
In Star Trek, challenging a captain’s bad decision is misconduct. In Stargate it’s common sense. In Star Trek, slavery gets being reinvented by the good guys because beings aren’t worthy of rights until proven otherwise. In Stargate, slavery requires a revolt.
The main propaganda of Stargate is that the US would facilitate this behavior, rather than seeking its own imperial supremacy.
I understand doubting whether people have this interpretation. At least an uncritical watcher of Star Trek will act like a
white saviorstarfleet officer and help until they find some reason to judge you. Uncritical Stargate watchers might actually believe the US military tries to help people structurally and support them.Shal’kek nem’ron.
Alternative interpretation: SG-1 team is basically the galaxy class cia, fomenting usa-friendly regime change on every planet they encounter.
Formenting in-group-friendly regime change can be good or bad, depending on what sort of behavior is construed as “-friendly”. Some of my best friends forment in-group-friendly regime change.
SG-1 destroyed what would have been a very profitable ally because they were space nazis, and they helped space native Americans protect their land against destructive US mining practices.
Like with any show it’s best to enjoy it critically. I enjoy SG-1 despite it positively depicting a space CIA just like I enjoy TNG despite it positively depicting a space British Royal Navy flagship.
Yup.
Star Wars is so heavily merchandised that you really can’t tell anything about someone wearing a shirt with Yoda on it, impulse buy at a Wal-Mart. But show me someone wearing a Riker T-Shirt, and I’ll show you someone who went to a convention or decided to order a shirt off of a website. More likely to be one of us harmless earnest dorks who knows who did what at Tenagra.
Lucas when the merch prevailed
Lucas, with Kenner.
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.”
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Temba, his arms wide
Darmok and Jelad, on the ocean
It’s a bit of a shame for Star Wars that Darth Vader and stormtroopers have become so iconic.
I chuckle whenever I think of the dude who got arrested for following around ICE agents with a speaker playing the Imperial March.
This dude understood the assignment, and had the balls to pass the test.
If you want to actually watch this rather than just give clicks to Microslop, https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=imperial+march+ice
With the laugh track edited out:
Can someone tell me what my reaction to this poll should be?
Thank you, the laugh track detracts from the rest of it.
Thank you! I thought it was just me
Not all Star Trek fans are deep thinkers.
Not many Star Wars fans are deep thinkers.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
That’s not fair! The poor blokes won’t even understand they’re being made fun if!
Tbh I was going to reply but I couldn’t think of anything. (I’m a Farscape fan, not sure if that’s related?)
I’m pretty sure that Farscape fans fall into an entirely different Venn diagram.
One that overlaps with stargate?
Or sits within it
Much less unironic cardassian empire or dominion fans than the multitude of empire fans.
I would trust a person wearing a Terran Empire shirt more than a Star Wars Empire shirt.
Star Trek is just infinitely better and it’s a shame it’s always compared to Star Wars
Star Trek and Star Wars are apples and oranges. One doesn’t have to be better because they’re totally different things.
I’d say that used to be true, but now there’s been a bunch of Star Wars, and there’s a lot of material from both. Nothing from Star Wars really comes close to 90s Star Trek.
If we’re talking the original movies, and even the prequels, then definitely. And I can’t say I’m surprised it turned out that way, honestly.
Star Wars is shit though and I constantly have to see about it when trying to see about Star Trek
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.
One is a sci-fi and one is fantasy in space. Totally different genres.
100%, it’s literally a samurai, a cowboy and a princess against and evil space wizard.
Kind of beside the point. If you’re someone who’s gonna watch a space movie, with aliens, and lasers, you’re gonna watch both. I doubt many people care one’s a space opera, and the other’s fantasy in space, when they’re 12, or really ever.
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.
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.
But is it dumb?
The venn diagram of people who think it’s dumb is almost just one circle.
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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.
That’s a great way to see it, one is pulp fictiony for pure entertainment and the other deals with way more complex themes and gets you into some philosophical shit that can be fun to ponder on.
So you’re saying you’d participate in the Star Trek wars, rather than the Star Wars trek?
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.
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.
Valid point, I prefer the older stuff when given the choice. Seemed like they were tripping acid a lot more back then in the writers room and coming up with some really great stuff. They do seem to be worrying more about the visuals more and more lately than the content. I guess that comes with it being around so long, it gets harder to come up with zingers with time
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…
Section 31. Nemesis. Into Darkness. Pre-Beard TNG.
Wesley.
Lovingly and respectfully, as a fellow sci-fi nerd, don’t throw stones in glass starships.
It’s my opinion, it’s not dogma
You know, Wesley was an annoying teen but seeing him show up in Prodigy after having practiced his thought powers was pretty cool. Wish we could see more of that and the Protostar
Where does 40k fall on this spectrum? Is it just a nope by default or is it dependent on faction or memetics.
HEAVILY dependent on faction
I feel like anyone who wears an Orks shirt would probably be a pretty chill person IRL
I feel this is a very clever joke but I don’t know enough lore to appreciate it.
Less a joke about the lore and more a joke about how some people get really weird about some factions, like the Death Corps of Krieg and the Black Templars who are fan favorites but also attract a very fashy side of the fan base. Personally I’m more of an Armageddon Steel Legion, Blood Ravens, Adeptus Mechanacus type of guy.
People who play Black Templars are always going to be either the most horrible or the sweetest person you have ever met with no inbetween
Inquisition!
Salamanders forever!!!
You can trust anyone with an admech shirt.
Trust me.
So long as they don’t try to jack my shit by claiming it’s the blessed by the machine god then we’re good.
For me it would depend on what kind of Star Trek shirt it was. If it’s just a shirt that says Star Trek then not really. But if they’re wearing a fucking Starfleet uniform I will trust them with my goddamn life.
The Dominion did nothing wrong!
I stand with Jellico!
Star Wars is too widely popular for much to be inferred by the shirt, whereas Star Trek fans tend to be more alike : nerdy, generally nice.
