# Star Wars geeks vs. Star Trek nerds
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 9, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329 "2005-08-09T20:27:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/1 "2005-08-09T20:27:43Z")
Who’d win?
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/2 "2005-08-09T20:34:29Z")
I’d have to go with the Star Trek nerds on this one. They just seem slightly edgier (if I may use that term in this context) to me.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/3 "2005-08-09T20:40:49Z")
I gotta go with Star Wars geeks.
Because even though both are woefully uncoordinated and lacking in strength, when the actual fight breaks out, the Star Trek nerds are just going to stand there going “pchoo! pchoo!” with their fake phasers while the Star Wars geeks close the distance and beat them to death (albeit slowly and weakly) with their plastic lightsabers a la the Cinese “death of a thousand cuts.”
Because the fake Klingons sure won’t help out the fake Federation. 😉
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/4 "2005-08-09T20:41:13Z")
I’d say the Trek nerds, but I’m showing my biases.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/5 "2005-08-09T20:41:30Z")
I hesitate to even get into this…I’d have to say Trekkers due to that Jamacian voiced _thing_ with eyes on stalks.
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/6 "2005-08-09T20:44:39Z")
We all win. Send them forth that they may do battle, and rid us of their unwashed bodies and cheetoh stained fingertips.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/7 "2005-08-09T20:47:04Z")
The Batman fans would beat them both…
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/8 "2005-08-09T20:47:19Z")
Does this relate at all to the great Star Wars Trek?
How about the great Star Trek Wars?
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/9 "2005-08-09T20:48:28Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> The Batman fans would beat them both…
If they were prepared.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/10 "2005-08-09T20:48:32Z")
I’m more of a Star Wars geek than Star Trek, so I’d have to say Star Wars.
But then again, I’m also on Batman’s side, and we’re \*always \* prepared.
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### Author:  [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/11 "2005-08-09T20:49:25Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> Because the fake Klingons sure won’t help out the fake Federation. 😉
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Well they MIGHT, but they probably threw their backs out trying to swing those batleths that they had some guy in the shop class cut out of a piece of sheet metal.
;)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/12 "2005-08-09T20:49:35Z")
Simulpost!
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/13 "2005-08-09T20:53:16Z")
Well, there’s more hard core Trekkies than SWies,\* but there are probably more non-geeks who would be willing to go to bat for Star Wars out of fond memories of their childhood and Tie Fighters kicking arse.
So, Star Wars geeks for teh win!
- They don’t even have their own name!
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/14 "2005-08-09T20:53:33Z")
It’d be like watching a slow boring… well, I don’t know what… but it’d be slow and boring. With a lot of flailing, shin kicking and running away.
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/15 "2005-08-09T21:03:39Z")
Wow, simulposts at 3:47, 3:48, 3:49 and 3:53.
Four in a row, tic tac toe.
I’ll go hide.
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### Author:  [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/16 "2005-08-09T21:42:59Z")
Gotta go with star wars. You figure some of those people want to be a Jedi and are thus more likely to have taken martial arts.
Some martial arts training \> Geek slapping
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/17 "2005-08-09T21:47:55Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> It’d be like watching a slow boring… well, I don’t know what… but it’d be slow and boring. With a lot of flailing, shin kicking and running away.
That reminds me of watching Renaissance types practicing with their “swords” in a local park. Wow, does that ever not look like the movies.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/18 "2005-08-09T21:49:01Z")
The most important question here is, Who does CBG cast his lot with?
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/19 "2005-08-09T22:05:49Z")
Trek nerds, if only because they have a wider assortment of homemade metal weaponry.
Shop-metal batleths beat plastic Han Solo blasters every time.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-geeks-vs-star-trek-nerds/316329/20 "2005-08-09T22:10:40Z")
Tolkein geeks would have both their asses. In a florid, literary way, of course. 🙂
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