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How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the set-phasers-to-awesome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas added the 'ring around the Death Star' effect to his 1997 re-release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the revision was almost as hated as Greedo shooting first, and to boot was seen as a knock-off of the seminal 'Praxis effect' in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). But a debunking astronomer claims that the Federation got it wrong and the fan-boys should thank Lucas for adding some scientific accuracy to his fictional universe."

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  1. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy by geekoid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jesus Christ.

    The difference doesn't exist. Science fiction is fantasy. Weather is a magic carpet, wizard spell, and police box, or warp drive.

    This si a stupid argument and always has been future spaced fiction needed a category when it was niche.

    At to really mkae it moot, In SW cannon, the force has a scientific reason for existing.

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