Stargate

Star Trek

ROUND ONE: BACKGROUND

Original concept: explorers go to other planets through an alien portal.

Original concept: explorers travel the galaxy in a spaceship.

Advantage: STARGATE!

1 movie, 3 series, 14 seasons total, and increasing.

10 movies, 6 series, 30 seasons total.

Advantage: STAR TREK!

Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, of Independence Day and Godzilla.

Created by Gene Roddenberry, of... well, Star Trek, really.

Advantage: STAR TREK!

ROUND TWO: CONFRONTATIONS

SG-1 and Atlantis air on Friday nights.

Enterprise aired on Friday nights, opposite to Stargate. It got cancelled for low ratings.

Advantage: STARGATE!

Leading man: Ben Browder, destroyer of alien fleets on Farscape.

(Former) leading man: Scott Bakula, time-jumper on Quantum Leap.

Advantage: STARGATE!

ROUND THREE: ACHIEVEMENTS

SG-1 was the longest running sci-fi show ever in the US.

Was the first sci-fi show ever in the US.

Advantage: STARGATE!

Daniel has a girl on every planet.

Kirk had a girl on every planet.

Advantage: DRAW!

The best sci-fi franchise of the last decade.

One of the two best sci-fi franchises of the last 4 decades.

Advantage: STAR TREK!

WINNER: STARGATE!!