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How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy
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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1,2,3 came out we would all be disappointed as our imagination was replaced with someone else's.
No, Episodes 1 thru 3 just fucking sucked. The problem was that George Lucas is a greedy bastard and had fuckin' kids and filled the first few episodes with "goo-goo, ga-ga" dialog, piss-poor acting, and no sense of urgency.
Wait, you are right about one thing - the mysterious and all-powerful force was explained away, which made an already sterile trilogy even moreso.
But what of Star Wars vs. Star Trek? I like to think of Star Wars as Metallica and Star Trek as Megadeth. Metallica were more talented until they whored themselves out and went pop. Megadeth were not as talented, but were much more consistent and I can listen to them without becoming angry at their violating my childhood with their bed-wetting, infantile trash.
The problem with 'connoisseurs' is that they use arbitrary criteria. Some of these stem from measurable things, and some do not.
Star Trek and Star Wars are fantasy but not true SF, they have too many impossible things to qualify as true Science Fiction.
Have you ever seen a Rambo movie? It typically contains a great many impossible things. I'm not comfortable with classifying it as Science Fiction.
too cerebral for visual consumption
Do you read your books via braille, then? You could have gone a lot of different ways toward explaining why 'hard' SF doesn't do well on TV, but you went instead with 'visual'. Why?
Star Trek has always been the thinking man's version of Star Wars. Star Wars practically created the low-IQ yet nerdy genre. Star Trek grappled with real scientific (even sometimes modern physics) concepts. Star Wars was just a bunch of explosions with no science whatsoever. Explosions in space made just as much noise in Star Wars as they did in Star Trek, but at least Star Trek explained why people were walking upright in ships. There's really no contest. If you have a brain Star Trek is the better experience. If you don't, Star Wars is much better. So Star Wars wins. I'm sure Star Wars is far more popular among Slashdot readers since most of you fall into this loq-IQ-yet-nerdy category.
Dumbest fucking slashot article, EVER.
I'm not even going to say why it's stupid, because that would make me as bad as the fucking dipshit that just wasted two minutes of my life.
Urgh!
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Meh, It's Star Wars, WHO CARES!!!!
Star Wars is a little kids movie, which when first watched at a young age then becomes the measuring stick that other Sci Fi is held . Watch it first as an older person, and it doesn't hold up as that great a movie. Sure it is entertaining, but not the best ever.