[Secret Agent Man]

parsecs are units of distance, not time. but many have noted this a lng time ago as a mistake.

[aft_lizard]

It was easily explained a way when the EU noted that Kessel was near the Maw. So a pilot normally had to navigate around the Maw in order to not be destroyed.

[Billthedrill]

I noticed it sitting in a theater in 1977. Come on, that one was a howler. Mind you, I will go on record as saying I actually like Star Wars better than Star Trek, which isn't obvious from my comments on this thread, but damn, Lucas can't write dialogue.

It's entertainment, I suppose, and one can't take it too seriously, but when Jar Jar showed up I knew Lucas had lost it. He could get it back, though. I'm thinking an interactive movie wherein the audience gets to push a button that selects how Jar Jar Binks dies. "Oh, meesa sees an acid pit and an industrial shredder!" Yeah, baby...

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Still part of its charm. :’)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

[snip] equal to about 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles) or 3.26 light-years... the distance from the Sun to an astronomical object which has a parallax angle of one arcsecond (1/3,600 of a degree) [/snip]