{"id":318,"date":"2011-05-29T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=313"},"modified":"2011-05-29T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T00:55:24","slug":"star-wars-or-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/star-wars-or-star-trek.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars or Star Trek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofantastique.com\/2011\/05\/26\/star-trek-vs-star-wars-criteria-for-assessing-better-science-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheoFantastique<\/a> linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecollegetimes.com\/movies\/which-is-better-star-trek-or-star-wars-two-mega-fans-battle-it-out-1.2578952\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a piece by Janice Vega asking about this<\/a>, and offered one opinion. 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