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To: MadIvan

Sorry Ivan,

I would agree that Star Trek at its worst is bad television (I won't comment on the sorry state of filmic media in general). But when it has been good, it has been much better sci-fi than Star Wars, which is not really sci-fi but fantasy, and it is just dreadful. Great wiz bang special effects to be sure, but awful.

Most important, Star Wars is shamelessly ripped off from the 'Dune' books, and other reasonably good stories in a vastly inferior genre.


12 posted on 05/13/2005 7:50:24 AM PDT by Plymouth Sentinel (Sooner Rather Than Later)
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To: Plymouth Sentinel
Most important, Star Wars is shamelessly ripped off from the 'Dune' books, and other reasonably good stories in a vastly inferior genre.

Well to be fair, no. In Dune the hero came TO a desert planet.

While in Star Wars the hero (both Anakin and later Luke) came FROM a desert planet.

44 posted on 05/13/2005 8:36:35 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Plymouth Sentinel
But when it has been good, it has been much better sci-fi than Star Wars, which is not really sci-fi but fantasy...

Okay, you owe me a new keyboard. Star Wars is technically space opera. Star Trek cannot be considered sci fi except by folks with only a passing knowledge of the genre. It is best described as "science fantasy." Science Fiction has at least some grounding in reality -- the more grounding, the "harder" the science fiction. ST, with its "Treknobabble," "radiation-of-the-week," and the ability to pull off a Deus ex machina by "recalibrating the deflector array" is about as soft as they come in the science department.

92 posted on 05/13/2005 1:07:42 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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