You seem zealous in your arguments and usually informed on bits here and there, so if you start paying attention to all the response I think you’ll do a superb job in debating your point. You’ve shown you can do research, now back it up with a good debate about something (anything).

To each his own, I guess.

Hippies can get things done, they just need a little more of a reason than other people.

See what I did there?

Star Trek was a series of incidents with occasional Space Operaness. They had a sprinkling of galaxy sized plots but they never lasted too horribly long.

Star Wars was one continuous space opera. Everything about it was large scale and galaxy affecting. Everything was about the rise and fall and rise of galactic spiffyness.

so sayeth the DWN for what worth that holds. For the record, I am more into Star Trek than Star Wars. I like the Sith too much to be into Star Wars as hardcore as I could be.

People do that all the time here. In case you don’t want to look that up.

Quoting wikipedia, “Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite fanciful) technologies and abilities. Perhaps the most significant trait of space opera is that settings, characters, battles, powers, and themes tend to be very large-scale.”