Slashdot Poll: Best Star (Wars or Trek) Battle

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MarleysGh0st · #1 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:49 pm

I'm copying this daily poll from Slashdot, because it's too good for science fiction fans to miss!

(The Cowboy Neal option, BTW, is the Slashdot equivalent of WGAS.)

MarleysGh0st · #2 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:20 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:...because it's too good for science fiction fans to miss!

Or not?

silvercamaro · #3 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:23 pm

I didn't vote only because the choices didn't include the transport vehicles that looked like gigantic camels -- from the first or second release back in the dark ages. I couldn't even tell you which movie any of those other "memorable" battles are from (except the one with JarJar, which was so awful I won't even credit it as a movie.)

I like those camels, even if they did belong to the bad guys. I still have custody of one of the Mattel versions.

MarleysGh0st · #4 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:28 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I couldn't even tell you which movie any of those other "memorable" battles are from (except the one with JarJar, which was so awful I won't even credit it as a movie.)

Ummm, they're asking about hypothetical battles between one Star Wars character and one Star Trek character!

For some (OK, one) of the choices, it's not so much the prospect of a "good" battle as one of "a battle I'd dearly love to see both of them lose".

silvercamaro · #5 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:58 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Ummm, they're asking about hypothetical battles between one Star Wars character and one Star Trek character!

For some (OK, one) of the choices, it's not so much the prospect of a "good" battle as one of "a battle I'd dearly love to see both of them lose".

Ah. I see now. My bad for not reading carefully. Well, then, my choice is "none of the above." I'd like to see a hypothetical battle between the camels and tribbles. Sure, the camels have the advantage of massive size, but I'm betting that the tribbles can reproduce fast enough to gum up all the knee joints, thus rendering the giant machines immobile.

Is that better?

Perhaps I shouldn't admit that I don't even recognize the names of all of the Star Trek characters.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #6 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:22 pm

Q will beat the crap out of Yoda.

ulysses5019 · #7 Post by **ulysses5019** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:29 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Ummm, they're asking about hypothetical battles between one Star Wars character and one Star Trek character!

For some (OK, one) of the choices, it's not so much the prospect of a "good" battle as one of "a battle I'd dearly love to see both of them lose".
Ah. I see now. My bad for not reading carefully. Well, then, my choice is "none of the above." I'd like to see a hypothetical battle between the camels and tribbles. Sure, the camels have the advantage of massive size, but I'm betting that the tribbles can reproduce fast enough to gum up all the knee joints, thus rendering the giant machines immobile.

Is that better?

Perhaps I shouldn't admit that I don't even recognize the names of all of the Star Trek characters.

But how would the tribbles do against an army of evil squirrel's buddies?

starfish1113 · #8 Post by **starfish1113** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:20 pm

What, no WGAS??

Seriously, the last time I saw a Star Wars movie was when I was in the 9th grade. And that a long time ago. I tried to watch one of the new ones with the kids a few months ago. I just couldn't get into it.

TheCalvinator24 · #9 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:05 pm

IIRC, the Force does not work on androids, so Lor would kick Vader's bohunkus!

Here's Fanny! · #10 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:09 pm

Now I know how Marley feels when he reads one of my Vh1 Beyotch Show posts. Ha!

MarleysGh0st · #11 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:48 am

starfish1113 wrote:What, no WGAS??

Different sites, different traditions.

CowboyNeal is one of the technical gurus at Slashdot, and it's become their tradition to include his name as a choice in every poll, the way we include WGAS.

MarleysGh0st · #12 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:59 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Q will beat the crap out of Yoda.

Yeah, when one competitor is basically a god, the other doesn't have a chance.

christie1111 · #13 Post by **christie1111** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:38 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:Now I know how Marley feels when he reads one of my Vh1 Beyotch Show posts. Ha!

LOL!

Marley Sweetie, you know I love you, but seriously, this poll just made me laugh out loud. Alot!

MWAH!

hf_jai · #14 Post by **hf_jai** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:58 am

Assuming we're talking young Solo and Kirk, this is the battle that I'm most like to watch. If not, well, "Solo" has aged better, but "Kirk" might be more fun.

Ritterskoop · #15 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:05 am

hf_jai wrote:Assuming we're talking young Solo and Kirk, this is the battle that I'm most like to watch.

Shirtless. Also supposing young Kirk.

ulysses5019 · #16 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:09 am

Ritterskoop wrote:
hf_jai wrote:Assuming we're talking young Solo and Kirk, this is the battle that I'm most like to watch.

Shirtless. Also supposing young Kirk.

I wanna see two old geezers (with their shirts and toupees on) swinging moneybags at each other.

Flybrick · #17 Post by **Flybrick** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:50 pm

Here's to the magnificent redshirts! (beer emoticon inserted here if I could)

Those poor bastards never had a chance...

And that match up made me laugh.

EnsignInRedShirt · #18 Post by **EnsignInRedShirt** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:19 pm

Flybrick wrote:Here's to the magnificent redshirts! (beer emoticon inserted here if I could)

Those poor bastards never had a chance...

And that match up made me laugh.

Oh no!

MarleysGh0st · #19 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:12 am

christie1111 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:Now I know how Marley feels when he reads one of my Vh1 Beyotch Show posts. Ha!
LOL!

Marley Sweetie, you know I love you, but seriously, this poll just made me laugh out loud. Alot!

MWAH!

Thanks, Christie! It was all for some fun on a Friday afternoon.

I originally voted for the Death Star vs the Borg Cube on the Slashdot site, but I voted for the Stormtrooper vs. the Red Shirt here, for its comedic value.

How could the Red Shirt die when the Stormtroopers never hit anything?

tanstaafl2 · #20 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:37 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
hf_jai wrote:Assuming we're talking young Solo and Kirk, this is the battle that I'm most like to watch.

Shirtless. Also supposing young Kirk.

Not sure you would want to see a "young" Kirk shirtless. There was a reason he wore that girdle...

Here's Fanny! · #21 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:43 pm

I didn't realize that I had neglected to vote earlier. That has now been rectified.

Cowboy Bob Orton v. Neal Schon is going to ROCK!!!!11

earendel · #22 Post by **earendel** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:52 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Ummm, they're asking about hypothetical battles between one Star Wars character and one Star Trek character!

For some (OK, one) of the choices, it's not so much the prospect of a "good" battle as one of "a battle I'd dearly love to see both of them lose".
Ah. I see now. My bad for not reading carefully. Well, then, my choice is "none of the above." I'd like to see a hypothetical battle between the camels and tribbles. Sure, the camels have the advantage of massive size, but I'm betting that the tribbles can reproduce fast enough to gum up all the knee joints, thus rendering the giant machines immobile.

Is that better?

Perhaps I shouldn't admit that I don't even recognize the names of all of the Star Trek characters.

If the Ewoks can figure out how to bring down the AT-ST (chicken walker) vehicles in RotJ, then Tribbles can definitely bring down the AT-ATs simply by multiplying beyond all measurement (imagine the scene from "The Trouble with Tribbles" - Kirk deluged by Tribbles - and multiply that a million times over).

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