It depends.
Here's how I rank everything I've seen:
1. GOUT (George's Original Unedited Trilogy) Star Wars
2. Star Trek: TOS + films
3. Star Wars: Expanded Universe (in the 90's)
4. Star Trek: TNG + films
5. Star Trek: J.J. Abrams reboot
6. Star Trek: DSN
7. Star Wars Ewok TV movies
8. Star Trek: Voyager
9. Star Trek: Enterprise
10. Star Wars Original Trilogy, Special Edition
11. Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (which isn't canon in my book)
12. Star Wars Holiday Special
13. Star Wars Disney films (which is so non-canon that it's anti-canon)
And I haven't seen Rebels, either version of The Clone Wars, or Discovery.
So overall, if you cut out everything Star Wars that came out after 1996, what's left of Star Wars is unquestionably what I prefer over any or all of Trek. But if you force me to add everything Star Wars that came out after 1996, it pulls the average coolness of Star Wars so low that Trek as a whole comes out ahead.
Star Wars has no lines lifted from classical literature it has lines like : "Move the fleet out of the asteroid field, I need to make phone call" ;-)
Although putting Ahab's words into Ricardo Montalban's mouth worked for WoK (I don't think those words would have worked coming from any other actor), I don't see why lifting lines from classics automatically makes a movie better.
My ranking of Star Wars films, from best to worst, is Episode 5, 4, 6, 7, R1, 3, S, 1, 8, 2.
I still think that Attack of the Clones is worse than The Last Jedi. That's the only Star Wars film that I think is unambiguously worse.
The Phantom Menace is absolutely as bad as most people think it is. However, it's still better than The Last Jedi and Attack of the Clones.
Also, despite Ewoks, I still think that Return of the Jedi is better than The Force Awakens because of the excellent confrontation between Luke, Darth Vader, and the Emperor.
eudaimonia,
Mark
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