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Paving the way - How did Trek inspire you? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

To your first point, that’s fair but Trek and Wars are just different things and the same thing at the same time.

It's like Catholicism and Lutheranism, don't know which is which in this analogy.

Star Wars has fairy tales, magic, great crusades and ancient empires, all not very openly or loudly being based on pretty rational laws, actually reminiscent of the Foundation books.

Star Trek has some ideal world, where everything is kinda futuristic and rational, but the balance doesn't even up, and its philosophy is less rational.

That's subjective and not to insult anybody. I think SW is much wiser than ST, and it's clear most people here think the opposite and I'm not insulted by that.

The only time Star Wars tried to add hard science to it,

Eh, Star Wars actually has it in more places than one. It's just very high-level about describing it, not getting into details too much, but the high-level part makes sense. I'm talking about the way hyperdrives work in Star Wars, and the computers there, and shields, and weapons, and many stuff. "Sith magic" included, yes.

Star Wars is science fantasy, not fiction, and introducing explanations start stripping the world of its mystery and awe. It also just didn’t jive with the vibe already established. It was basically someone just saying “Um actually, it’s not mystical. It’s just science.”

I actually agree with the guy answering you. Star Wars' problems with being SF are less fundamental than those of ST.

And Obi-Wan says that in essence it's still "just science" in the very beginning, with it being quite a bit religious and mystical, yes.

Which is what Star Wars is, a world of fairy-tale magic somewhere low and in philosophy not being really magic. It didn't spoil the thing for most people actually familiar with the Expanded Universe, only for those who wanted to pretend to be "old fans" TBF.

It's actually the spirit of it.

Star Trek on the other hand actively tries to explain everything all the time anyway.

Well, folk medicine does that too, but at the same time ST is less hard on fundamental laws of the universe than SW.