honestly, people are right when they say the similarities between trek and wars are superficial because trek is heady scifi and wars is space opera, but both do ultimately deal with the struggles and pitfalls in creating a better galaxy world and shit like Deep Space 9 and the Zahn SW books (hell, and SG-1 and Babylon 5) show that special things happen they try to meet in the middle
i would argue, that Star Wars is and was a distopia. Sure, they had times of peace. But it never lasts very long and even during times of peace the little guy gas to struggle: The lower platforms of Coruscant are riddled with crime and slavery is quite lucrative in the outer rim (even though it is theoretically illegal).
All that happens before the phantom menace, while huge megacorps are giving themselves political appointments. It is not as extreme as WH40k - but i have not heard yet of a universe so much over the top, as where space nazis could be considered the good guys.
honestly, people are right when they say the similarities between trek and wars are superficial because trek is heady scifi and wars is space opera, but both do ultimately deal with the struggles and pitfalls in creating a better
galaxyworld and shit like Deep Space 9 and the Zahn SW books (hell, and SG-1 and Babylon 5) show that special things happen they try to meet in the middleI’ve heard the difference described as Star Trek is a dystopia becoming a Utopia, while Star Wars is the opposite, a Utopia falling to Dystopia.
i would argue, that Star Wars is and was a distopia. Sure, they had times of peace. But it never lasts very long and even during times of peace the little guy gas to struggle: The lower platforms of Coruscant are riddled with crime and slavery is quite lucrative in the outer rim (even though it is theoretically illegal).
All that happens before the phantom menace, while huge megacorps are giving themselves political appointments. It is not as extreme as WH40k - but i have not heard yet of a universe so much over the top, as where space nazis could be considered the good guys.