Casette opened this issue on May 19, 2005 ยท 91 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 19 May 2005 at 6:19 PM
thanks to all of the Star Wars fans for not rubbing in the demise of Star Trek prior to Star Wars
The Star Trek franchise is over a decade older than Star Wars. So Star Wars has a bit longer to go to match that.
Basically, both franchises have descended into drek territory in recent years.
However -- regardless of whether Star Trek or Star Wars will have a continued existence on television -- they will both have reverted to their purest form.
In the bookstore.
Through myriad Star Trek novels, Captain Kirk will be just like James Bond -- eternally 35 years old.
The same thing goes for Han Solo.
It only took me 5 short years to go from 35 to 40. But for mythical characters like these -- they'll be 35 when they are 100. And they'll still be getting the girls.
After another generation or two (provided that we have that long yet to go), it'll be like that scene from The Running Man.......
"Mr. Spock, you have the com......."
"Who is Mr. Spock?"
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Oh......and the star of some old movie will be the governor of California.
Or perhaps the President.