Are Star Wars and Star Trek related?

The people who made Star Trek looked at Star Wars and its popularity and profit and realized that they, too, had a universe and set of characters involving humans, aliens, and spaceships, and that people apparently liked movies about such things. read more

William Shatner argues that Star Trek is superior to Star Wars. According to him, "Star Trek had relationships and conflict among the relationships and stories that involved humanity and philosophical questions." Shatner believes that Star Wars was only better than Star Trek in terms of special effects, and that once J.J. Abrams became involved, Star Trek was able to "supersede Star Wars on every level". read more

Well, for the first outing on the big screen for Trek, the premise was a big, galactic cerebral space epic, filled with more high-brow sci-fi elements and a deathly slow plot. read more