# The New York Times "Solves" the Trek vs Wars debate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063 "2022-02-07T18:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063/21 "2022-02-08T21:22:30Z")
Stargate? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063/22 "2022-02-08T22:21:50Z")
The app I use, I think just recognizes the first letter of a rebus for determining when the puzzle is “solved”, and ignores the rest. So if you had entered your rebused letters in the opposite order, it might have called it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063/23 "2022-02-08T23:48:18Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Stargate? Heh - I say, heh. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063/24 "2022-02-09T17:12:39Z")
“Richard Dean Anderson, of the four “Star” franchises: _Wars_, _Trek_, _Gate_, and _Search_ , “_Gate_” is easily in my top three!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-york-times-solves-the-trek-vs-wars-debate/959063.md?page=1)