Which of these two major science fiction franchises is better, deeper, more meaningful, more realistic? Which of these decades-long fables offers the most meaningful morals? The most ominous cautionary tales? The coolest gadgets? The hottest space babes?
It’s fun because it really doesn’t matter who is right. People can come and go, change their minds, play devil’s advocate and not risk anything because none of it is real. (Unlike, say, religion, where people who don’t share your view often feel somehow obligated to, well, kill you, because, unlike, say, Homer, or Aesop, or Milton, or Jesus, they don’t understand the teaching power of stories — parables — that don’t have to be true to have great meaning.