Also it seems aliens in Star Trek are almost always "Earthlings with funny bumps"* or "energy beings", except in the animated series. In Star Wars they're more varied.
* There was that one TNG episode that tried to explain it with those humanoids tampering with alien DNA though.
They should've just explained it as human colonists instead of aliens. Maybe they were some human explorers whose ship got lost in a more primitive time, and they had to make do with lesser tech, so when the Enterprise comes along, it's far more advanced than anything they've seen. That way, you won't need to buy goofy-looking forhead bumps that are about as convincing as a cheap Halloween costume. I remember in the Tales of the Jedi comics, the Republic made contact with the Onderon civilization, and the Onderonians were humans, but they lost contact with the Republic and had more primitive technology compared to the Republic, which, even back in 4000 BBY, had fucking jet troopers.
The old Battlegrounds game by coincidence made sense after the prequels.
Before Ep3, we didn't know how Palps killed the Jedi.
But EP3 clearly shows how Anakin leads a whole ton of clones in to the temple in a proper military operation.
So the moffs would know. Its not like the clones were all mind wiped by Grey Knights after it, their gear or at least gunship must have a camera.
Exactly. Tarkin even stated that the rumors about Vader's identity started with the 501st, so the 501st obviously saw Anakin being referred to as Lord Vader, they have helmet cam footage of him killing Jedi, and the older generation of Moffs and upper-class Imperial military, most of whom were already army officers before Order 66, would have access to that shit.
Star Trek and Dr Who ironically was always the US/UK magical pair to the more grounded SW/40K.
SW/40k just admitted they aren't hard sci fi but fantasy with tech.
You pretty much know how a lightsaber, blaster, bolter or teleporter work in the general sense and what it consistently does. Like how a DND crossbow works.
Exactly. Each piece of tech has its own use. You don't see people using blasters or bolters as welders, each piece of tech has one use, and it makes sense in context.
With Trek, just a phaser can be a mini nuke, a regular gun, a stun ray and a welder ... somehow. And no you can't use the pocket death star setting in a firefigth unless the plot needy you to.
Every tech is just a plot device that does and can't do what the plot needs it to.
Which again, makes Trek tech be more like capeshit. It is ridiculous that people actually see Trek as more science-based than Star Wars, when Trek tech is basically magic with Treknobabble.
Sure there are some inconsistencies, but general mechanics are there. That's why TLJs arching turbolasers and dropped bombs made fans angry. Because proton bombs and turbolasers had a defined way of acting. With a quantum torpedo, you can just say that it suddenly can't fly because of the pozitronic invertion flux getting interference from the tachyon carburator matrix's oscillating reosnance with the local moon's deerpium deposits.
SW fans are more angry about tech inconsistencies than Trek fans are. Go figure. If the dreaded Holdo Maneuver happened in Star Trek, your average Trekkie would've just accepted it and moved on. They would actually be proud of that shit and use that to flex on SW fans in VS debates.
ST and DW just pretended to be super science by technobabble and had very little internal consistency save for the DS9 war arc. But they throw physics words, car part words and all that at the viewer. Lampooned by both Futurama and Rick and Morty.
That's why you have the word "Treknobabble". It literally is a Trek tradition that you just use science-babble instead of actually having a consistent tech base. Again, this is why I can't accept people saying that Star Trek is more scientific than Star Wars. Anyone who says that clearly didn't do well in science class, let alone studied how Trek uses its "science".
