I’ve come to grips with the fact that I am indeed a nerd. I am also not ashamed to admit that I am a SciFi nerd. However, I might be the only person who absolutely loathes Star Wars. I was listening to the radio this morning and a local Detroit station was asking callers to call in with which they thought had the overall best series: Star Wars or Star Trek. A lot of people called in for Star Wars. I should have called in. For me, Star Trek all the way.

I went and saw the movie last night, which by the way, is awesome. I can’t really describe it with any other word. JJ Abrams loves his shaky-cam, but that movie was done exceptionally well. Not to mention the amazing casting they did. I think they wrote that movie for Zachary Quinto (Spock) because he looks like Spock. Even in the series Heroes he looks like Spock!

Anyway, I can go on and on about the movie, or just get to my point. I am a Trekkie.

I’ve never been a fan of the Star Wars series. I know it was “ahead of its time” since they had lasers (pew! pew!) in the 70s and had hol-o-grams and CGI (ooOOOoooOOooh…! aaaaAAAaaaAAAaAAhhh..!), but it didn’t impress me. Maybe it would have if I was a young lass in the hippy era, but meh. Then they had to go and make the first three episodes which were absolutely horrendous. Yes, let’s pick the worst actor ever to play Darth Vader. Nicely done. Hayden Christiansen is useless.

I can’t respect George Lucas. How can you respect a guy as a wonderful director, writer, producer who made this huge intergalactic series, which was ahead of its time, and then turn around and do something like Howard the Duck?! COME ON!

Now I’m not saying that Star Trek wasn’t an absolute ball of cheese, because it was, but I can respect those actors. And true, Voyager and Deep Space Nine went on FOR-EV-ER, but I thought it was good TV. Of course, I was more a fan of The Next Generation (TNG) -  see I told you I was a nerd. There was a grace about the show that just made sense. The actors seemed to mesh well together and that made for a great show. Maybe because everyone knew it was cheesy and campy, but was still enjoyable, made the show that much better. Who knows. What I do know is that I always hoped that one day I too could sit in the captain’s chair.

I’m sure people will throw stuff at me or I’ll lose some points, but I thoroughly enjoy Star Trek more than I ever could with Star Wars. I enjoy the oddity of half-Vulcan, half-human lifeforms, bald men who run the S.S. Enterprise, and Bill Shatner. I completely dig the weird way to split your fingers with your right hand to wish someone well. Space will always be the final frontier for me. I don’t need a laundry list of a description to tell me what happened in a galaxy far, far away.

In the words of Dante from Clerks, the only thing the Star Wars series had was a bunch of muppets. Well, OK, he said that about Return of the Jedi, but it’s my thought on the entire series. I’d rather be at warp speed finding new things that come along my way.