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Tumblr post by arctic-hands:

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

Reply from evilsoup:

An image depicting the story of the “Judgment of Solomon”, where Solomon is labelled “stargate fandom”, and the two women are labelled “star trek fandom” and “star wars fandom”. The Star Wars lady is standing grumpily with her hands on her hips, while the Star Trek woman gestures with open arms. Between the two of them, on the floor, is a baby in a wicker basket. Solomon sits over them in judgment.

    • ZagorathOP
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      7 months ago

      I hadn’t seen it before, but I’m also not seeing anyone saying they have seen it before? I know lemmy.world is having federation difficulties, but I checked how this post appears on there and still didn’t see any comments to that effect. Are there other instances I should check that are also having problems?

      • BarqsHasBite
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        37 months ago

        I mean this is presented as an old joke, but I’ve never heard it.

        • ZagorathOP
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          37 months ago

          Oh I see. To me it looks like it’s presented as very old, but not widely-known. Something that happened a long time ago in a couple of small niche communities.

      • vlad
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        17 months ago

        You guys haven’t heard of Stargate? It’s awesome. It rivals TNG.