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Oh, I love that episode. Not because of Penn & Teller but because of the "Day of the Dead" plot
Oh, I love that episode. Not because of Penn & Teller but because of the "Day of the Dead" plot
heh, the only one I've seen outside the internet is the Futurama one.
It's a full time job avoiding watching star trek and star wars... I'm not into sci fi anyway.
AKA, The Force, to be specific to this discussion.
It's worse than that. In the Star Wars universe we are never given explanations as to how things that might be possible work which makes it even less Sci-Fi worthy.
In Star Wars, we don't get any explanations how anything works, it just does. We don't know how hyper drive works, we don't know what fuel they use (in fact we see them fueling fighters before the battle of Yavin and never again), we don't know how a light saber works. Luke gets in his X-wing and just goes to Dagobah.
My god those commentators are horrible.
No it is not explained, because it would get in the way of the actual story, which is what drives all six films. That is why Star Wars has universal appeal to many genres, whereas Star Trek seems to appeal to a much narrower audience. Apples and Oranges, neither is superior.
If you want to know more about the Star Wars Universe, it is not going to be handed to you passively. You got to do some research, because it is all there, you just got to know where to look.
Oh, and by the way: Here is the article on Hyperdrive.
STAR TREK NERD RANT
(The reboot of Star Trek, the 2009 movie, is very Star Wars like in its mindset -- lots of goofs and "whatever" moments that never would have passed muster in old Trek. For example, just so they could make the shuttle bay look big some grunt at ILM scaled the ship bigger and bigger to where it's officially way too gargantuan and is bigger than the Enterprise D -- but they didn't scale up the rest of the ship's details like windows and doorways so the crew would feel like midgets. By the size of the windows and the decks, clearly the ship is meant to be roughly the same size as the original Enterprise, but then you have to throw out the cavernous shuttlebay scene. In fact nobody inolved in the movie is even willing to give an actual size and there have been contradictory statements made. Watch the Plinkett review for more examples like the turbolift botching).
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No it is not explained, because it would get in the way of the actual story, which is what drives all six films. That is why Star Wars has universal appeal to many genres, whereas Star Trek seems to appeal to a much narrower audience. Apples and Oranges, neither is superior.