r/comics • u/TommySiegel • 20d ago

OC Star Wars vs Star Trek: a helpful guide [OC]

Post image

Star Trek 2009? Fun! The Force Awakens? Fun! And yet…

27.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

47

u/S_A_R_K 20d ago

JJ Abrams, destroyer of worlds and the franchises they exist in. RIP Vulcan and temu Coruscant

14

u/FoldedDice 20d ago

Vulcan isn't even the bad one, since at least that stayed in the alternate reality. They blew up the "real" Romulus just to give their villain a backstory.

6

u/CockyBovine 20d ago

Yeah, that’s my big complaint about Abrams. He messed with a major portion of the “prime” universe by destroying Romulus like it was NBD. What does it mean for one of the major powers of that part of the galaxy to suddenly no longer have a home world? What does it mean for everyone else? Who cares? We gotta throw our Big Bad back in time so he can try to kill young Spock.

Meanwhile, the destruction of Praxis was the origin of the entirety of the plot of The Undiscovered Country.

2

u/FoldedDice 19d ago

Yep. The destruction and resulting decline of the Romulan Empire could have been a major plotline in itself. Unfortunately, there wouldn't have been enough explosions to put in the trailer and we just can't have that.