A response to 'Why do people have to choose between Star Trek and Star Wars? Why can't we just love them both equally?'
I have never understood why some science fiction/fantasy fans insist that there has to be an “either/or” choice and that one has to like one franchise but not the other. I was three years old and living outside the U.S. when Star Trek: The Original Series premiered on Sept. 8, 1966, and the show did not air in the South American country where we were until 1970. Thus my introduction to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise was not under the most optimal of circumstances. We only had black-and-white TV (even if you owned a color set, that country didn’t yet broadcast in color), and of course the series was dubbed in Spanish. I was a kid who had forgotten any English that I’d learned as a toddler, but even at the age of seven I noticed one detail about Latin American TV: every imported American show used the same voice actors to dub the Spanish-language audio track. As a result, the US shows, which at the time included Star Trek, Hogan’s Heroes, T
