Dr Who or Star Trek

[primenova]

You can only save one series. The other would be wiped from history so never created.

Which you you pick - Dr Who (someone would travel back to late 1962? to stop the creation of the series. No exact dates on when Dr Who was started in idea)

Star Trek - go back to 1964 & stop Gene original draft.

I'd say save Dr Who because something else would have replaced Startrek in the US. Maybe the 1965 lost in space series being longer, or another from that studio ( i dont know who did them but expect land of the giants was same company)

[Benn]

It's a tough one, because I prefer Star Trekkin' to Doctor in Distress, but Doctorin' The Tardis is better than both. But is it better enough to be worth keeping DiD?

[The Doctor]

Blake's 7.

-Ralph

[Bogatan]

Lower decks! Lower decks!

[Toph]

Doctor Who doesn't do starships, and Star Trek has the best starships ever.
And starships tweak my little autistic brain like nothing else.
So on that grounds alone, Trek wins.

On a less practical level, while I like Doctor Who, it doesn't even make it onto my top five obsessions/fandom list. Maybe not even my top ten. Star Trek and Stargate do.

[Shockprowl]

Doctor Who, but Jonathan Frakes would be The Doctor and UNIT would be on Starships.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

Babylon 5, and Bill & Ted.

Answering the question properly: Star Trek. Because I only have a high regard for very specific bits of both franchises: Star Trek: TNG, and the Eccleston/Tennant Doctor Who series. And one of those was a childhood love, while the other I got into as an adult. So there's no contest.

Make it so.

But also, seriously, Babylon 5 and Bill & Ted.

Martin

[primenova]

With Startrek - how much stuff was made from the props? Medical scanners mobile phones. Lots of Marvel comics do follow Startrek ideas, Did Starwars?

But how much do you hate that bloke who went out of his way to cancelled Dr Who that grade bloke.

Just seen that Lew Grade wanted Gene (Startrek) to do a tv series ended 1961. If screengems had continued he would not have returned to US. That battleground earth could have been done

[The Doctor]

The Tripods.

-Ralph

[Pinwig]

Now yer talking.

[Jim]

Doctor Who.

For all I love Trek, the Doctor's pacifist anti-authoritarian way is more my vibe than the mild militarism of Starfleet. I know that's a bit of an over-simplification on both sides, but it's a broad-strokes question to begin with!

[primenova]

There was a storyline in Startrek about Starfleet being humans only club. Any storyline in Dr Who saying why Doctor always human form - why doesn't he regenerate into having 8 legs?

[Philip Ayres]

Cos of the impact on the effects budget

[Toph]

I think the best we could ever hope for from a non-human Doctor would be a trek-style makeup appliance, or a movie-style Zaphod Beeblebrox hidden appendage.

[The Doctor]

Jan 4, 2024 19:06:18 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Cos of the impact on the effects budget

And the Looms. Don't forget the Looms.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

There is only one answer to this question.

Manimal.

[primenova]

Did they copy the Borg from the Cybermen then take the improvements to Cybermen in New Who from Borg?

[Toph]

While I can see the post revival Cybermen coming to be mildly influenced by the borg, I think the borg's similarities to the cybermen are coincidental, given the borg turned out completely different from their original insectoid concept.

[The Doctor]

Yup.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

A lot of the Cybermen's post 2005 changes would seem influenced by the Iron Man films both in terms of design and new powers

[primenova]

Just think if we had Ironman wearing flairs