You are missing the point entirely.
With bonus points for casually having Chekhov working alongside Sulu and Uhura on the bridge as fellow officers: for us it was the height of the Cold War, for them it was a time where researchers and physicians from all over the globe are on the same team as guys who only use force as a last resort – all of them deferring to Captain Kirk, sure as Kirk thinks nothing of being outranked by guys like Commodore Stone and Commodore Mendez; the mission, humanity’s mission, is what matters.
“They used to say if man could fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly; he discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn’t reached the moon, or that we hadn’t gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That’s like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I’m in command. I could order this. But I’m not, because Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk? Risk is our business! That’s what this starship is all about! That’s why we’re aboard her!”
Oh? I hate it when I do that. What is the point exactly? That actual science-fiction is being relegated to second place by fantasy?
Eliminate Middle Earth, keep Star Trek. I think it’s better to be hopeful for the future of humanity than romantic for its past.
Not an easy choice, to be sure. I feel that much of LotR is of significantly higher quality than much of Star Trek, but I think that the cultural impact of Star Trek’s loss would be greater.
That. Retrodeath to Tolkein!!!
If only it were that easy!
I just wanted to add that the quote I copy-and-pasted – the one where Kirk looks back to how the Apollo mission landed men on the moon – is from an episode that aired in 1968. There’s something wonderful about that.
Ah yes, Return to Tomorrow. Mr. Nimoy was really amusing in that.
“I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.”
– Robert Heinlein, “The Discovery of the Future,” Guest of Honor Speech, 3rd World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado (1941)
Perhaps instead of destroying one or the other, they could be almagamated into one?
Captain Frodo! Klingorcs off the starboard bow!
I mean, after all, both Elves and Vulcans have pointy ears. 
That is highly illogical, Professor. I shall have to send my familiar spirits to deal with you.
Shieldmaiden Uhura, get Aragon on the subspace Palantir. Ensign Pippin, lay in a course for the Gondor, Warp Factor Seven.
CHIEF ENGINEER GIMLI: The Arkenstone crystals, Captain! They kinna hold out much longer!
This was bound to happen at some point in this thread . . .
Somewhere there is undoubtedly fanfic which does exactly that.
But with more Vulcan/Orc slash action.
One origin for the Orcs is that they are twisted Elves. Romulans and Vulcans, anyone?
I would eliminate Lord of the Rings, on the grounds that Star Trek presents a far superior array of female characters.
I’m not just talking about female main characters, though Star Trek obviously wins on those grounds. There are vastly more female main characters-- we have Uhura, Crusher, Troy, Kira, Jadzia Dax, Ezri Dax, Janeway, B’Elanna, Kes, and Seven of Nine. In Lord of the Rings, we just have Galadriel, Arwen, and Eowyn. Not only are there far fewer female characters in Lord of the Rings, they are also far less central to the plot and receive far less “screen time,” as it were, than the main male characters.
Star Trek admittedly did not start out strong with female characters in the Original Series or even in the Next Generation, but to that I say that (1) the point of this exercise is to compare all of Star Trek to all of Lord of the Rings; (2) In Star Trek, Uhura appears in every episode (or almost every episode), and is more central to the plot and holds a great position of power and responsibility than can be said for any of the Lord of the Rings women, and (3) Star Trek may have started slow but it did get better.
But, what Lord of the Rings really lacks are the sort of peripheral female characters you’d expect to show up tangentally and in the normal course of things. You’d expect to see the odd wife, mother, sister, or daughter. But, apart from the characters named above, you just don’t. Tolkien may have given relatively little attention to female main characters, but he seems to have given absolutely no thought to women as part of the setting or background for his world.
So, give me Star Trek any day. It’s thoroughly disconcerting to read a book where, for the most part, one’s entire gender is just not there.
One does not simply lay in a course for Gondor.
How wouldthisbe affected by the outcome?
It’s the complete works of Tolkien, not just LoTR- the Silmarillon includes a lot more female characters- most notably Luthien, but also a lot of female Valar, Maia, elves and humans, both minor and major characters.
Of course, the only female mentioned in the Hobbit is Bilbo’s dead mother, so that doesn’t add much.