They can choose for themselves

My kids made a better choice:

Farscape is like Mormonism --- gotta watch Trek first to catch the references!
- You have to watch a LOT more than that!
  
  Some other references:
  
  2001 A Space Odyssey
  
  Looney Tunes (An entire episode was dedicated to the Coyote and Road Runner). That show had numerous other references too, including an appearance of the Enterprise itself.
  
  Dr Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (Dear John and Hi There for instance)
  
  Dark Crystal
  
  Dracula
  
  Star Wars
  
  There are many many more. The entire show was one big reference to something else.
  
  One of the more esoteric Star Trek references was the aliens urinating. In Star Trek, no one pees. The only time any time of shower/rest room is shown in the entire franchise is in ST:TMP when the Ilia drone appears on the Enterprise. There might be a scene in ST:TOS where Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that's it.
  
  About the only franchise/movie that I cannot think of a reference in Farscape is Stargate.
This + Stargate
The superior version.
- That's awesome.
Never get off the boat, man, never get off the boat...
Perfection.

But first they need to agree that B5 is superior to both big franchises.

Amazingly still very relevant. Mainly the graphics were dated when I watched a couple of years ago.
This is the third edge of the sword.

What if they choose Firefly?

What if they choose Firefly?

Shiny, Beltalowda.
- So say we all!
Do we really want to subject our offspring to the torment that is no second season?
- i gotta go with butters on this... its better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.

They're just gonna end up being LOTR/Fantasy geeks and hate sci-fi if you push too hard. Instead of Trek or Star Wars conventions, they'll wanna go to the ren faire.

One is just 3 films, the other houndreds of episodes and several films.

How hard can it be? Worst case do the first and then switch!

The best Star Wars are the animated shows. Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch are each better than most of the movies. Andor is also good. So Star Wars is a lot more than just 3 movies.
- I was about to say, what's this slander? Star wars is 4 movies and 4 tv shows!
Ignore the peanut gallery. You're right: there are only 3 Star Wars movies.
- Alt: Lucy from Peanuts dressed as Ray pulling the droid bb88 away from Chuck dressed as Ben like the football kick trick
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The problem is that Star Wars and Star Trek are two different genres. One is sci-fi and the other is fantasy set in space. There nothing wrong with either, but they are unrelated.

Q would like to talk about space wizards. Or that guy that killed an entire race because his wife died. Or when Riker was made a god. Or when Wesley walked out of the show.

Trek is science fiction?
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I don’t get why it’s a problem they’re unrelated. Stargate is unrelated to both, and far superior.
Is space politics sci-fi or fantasy? It’s got as much religion and politics going for it as knights and wizards.

So how is Star Trek fantasy?
- Suffice to say, it's Star Wars with the space fantasy stuff.
  
  The force etc etc very much is coded as a religion

So, uh….

For when you want your Sci-Fi manic depressive.

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You're all wrong. There is only one answer:

Lexx is..... Something else.
- It’s Canadian is what it is. Explains all.

Trek Wars. Not to be confused with the 1994 cinematic masterpiece that is Tek Wars.

So... no one's about Battlestar Galactica?

Finally a gif with sound (in my head).
I literally started watching this yesterday. No idea how I went so long without seeing it.

The miniseries is kind of rough (emotionally), but I guess I wasn't prepared for >!the destruction of humanity.!<. It's incredibly good though.
- This is how
  
  Spoilers work on lemmy.
  
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  And how:
  
  ::: spoiler This is how Spoilers work on lemmy. :::

Just make sure they're old enough to participate in the "is Star Wars fantasy or sci-fi" debate first.

The sci-fi gods welcome ALL, with a warm heart!

They aren't very comparable, different genres, completely different stories, different methods of storytelling, and completely different mediums (yes star trek has movies and star wars has shows, star trek is still primarily a series of shows while star wars is primarily a series of movies).