Minor league baseball game settles ‘Star Wars’ vs. ‘Star Trek’ with a dance battle
Set phasers to fun.
The best way to settle Star Wars vs. Star Trek is to have a massive three-hour film featuring characters from both franchises battling it out for sci-fi supremacy. That will probably never happen. So the second-best way to settle Star Wars vs. Star Trek is at a minor league baseball game.
The Fresno Grizzlies, Triple-A affiliate of the Astros, had Star Wars night on Saturday, giving everyone free rein to dress up as their favorite Jedi, Stormtrooper, Sith Lord, or whatever the hell Yoda is. It was supposed to be a good time, until people dressed up in Star Trek costumes walked in, so they confronted each other while Ennio Morricone’s theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly played. (You know what, we’re already mixing franchises; we might as well add western movie theme music.)
A Trekkie (or is it Trekker?) made the initial attack by pulling off some moves that you’d normally do at a wedding, while the Star Wars side had a breakdancing Jedi, making this totally unfair from the start.
By the end of this, the crowd decided Star Wars was the better franchise. But I call shenanigans. If we’re going to do this for real — as in, not set up to be lopsided where one side has an actual breakdancer — we need a dance-off among Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Felicity Jones, Oscar Isaac, Daisy Ridley, LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, and Zoe Saldana. The winner will be decided by an anthropomorphic Rotten Tomatoes meter.
(h/t Polygon)
