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First all the comments I am seeing here are taking what Stewart said way too seriously. Come on guys do you really think this crossover is gonna happen? Secondly if they can start filming in LA again why is the second season of Picard not up and running yet?
If you were serious about your second point: This ad was probably shot in a day with only a small crew. Shooting the second season of Picard would involve a lot more people, both in terms of actors and crew. Plus, once you start, the shoot would take several months. So safety protocols would need to be a lot more complex. And still, just given the time it takes, there is a good chance somebody will bring in the virus at some point which would probably force a shutdown of the production.
That is just the beginning of a long list of "moral" lessons relentlessly pushed by "Star Wars." Lessons that starkly differentiate this saga from others that seem superficially similar, like "Star Trek." (We'll take a much closer look at some stark divergences between these two sci-fi universes below.)
It is essential to understand the radical departure taken by genuine science fiction, which comes from a diametrically opposite literary tradition -- a new kind of storytelling that often rebels against those very same archetypes Campbell venerated. An upstart belief in progress, egalitarianism, positive-sum games -- and the slim but real possibility of decent human institutions.
This truly is a different point of view, in direct opposition to older, elitist creeds that preached passivity and awe in nearly every culture, where a storyteller's chief job was to flatter the oligarchic patrons who fed him. Imagine Achilles refusing to accept his ordained destiny, taking up his sword and hunting down the Fates, demanding that they give him both a long life and a glorious one! Picture Odysseus telling both Agamemnon and Poseidon to go chase themselves, then heading off to join Daedalus in a garage start-up company, mass producing wheeled and winged horses so that mortals could swoop about the land and air, like gods -- the way common folk do today. Even if they fail, and jealous Olympians crush them, what a tale it would be.
That kind of myth does sell. Yet, even after rebelling against the Homeric archetype for generations, we children of Pericles, Ben Franklin and H.G. Wells remain a minority. So much so that Lucas can appropriate our hand-created tropes and symbols -- our beloved starships and robots -- for his own ends and get credited for originality.
Right on. "Star Wars" belongs to our dark past. A long, tyrannical epoch of fear, illogic, despotism and demagoguery that our ancestors struggled desperately to overcome, and that we are at last starting to emerge from, aided by the scientific and egalitarian spirit that Lucas openly despises. A spirit we must encourage in our children, if they are to have any chance at all.
The most notable "Star Trek" luminary to cross over into "Star Wars" (and most of the actors on this list began in "Trek," moving to "Wars" later) was none other than George Takei, the helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise starting in 1966. Takei voiced a character named Lok Durd in a 2009 episode of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Lok Durd was a Neimoidian general who served as part of a separatist android army, was captured in a skirmish, but managed to escape and continue a campaign of malfeasance. Lok Durd also invented a weapon called a Defoliator that could destroy organic life, but leave the androids unharmed.
Appearing only briefly in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Pegg was cast as a junk trader named Unkar Plutt who ends up selling out the character of Rey to the First Order. Pegg voiced the character, but it was largely a CGI creation based on his movements. This is another case of an actor starting on "Trek" as a noble character, then moving to "Wars" as a wicked one.
Maloney would go on to star in the best episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," called "The Thaw." In it, the Voyager crew had to project their consciousnesses into a computer simulation where a manifestation of fear (played by Michael McKean) had taken over the world with his army of scary carnival performers. Maloney was one of the members of Fear's retinue.
Over in the Delta quadrant, meanwhile, Abercrombie appeared in two episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager." In the fifth season, he was in an episode entitled "Someone To Watch Over Me," where he played the stern Abbot, overseeing a visiting alien who is going a little overboard with hedonism (the visiting alien is played by "Kids in the Hall" star Scott Thompson). In the sixth season episode "Spirit Folk," Abercrobie plays an Irish drunk. Whether his character was evil, stern, or broadly comedic, Abercrombie nailed it.
In the sixth season episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," called "True Q," Olivia D'Abo played a Starfleet intern who is on board to acquire some field experience on a real starship. The omnipotent prankster Q (John de Lancie) then appears to her and tells her that, while she was raised as a human, she's actually a Q herself and is now ready to join the ranks of enlightened trickster gods. As one might, she is reluctant to give up being a human at the drop of a hat and tests out her godlike powers first; she cheats on tests and tries to kidnap her crush, Cmdr. Riker. D'Abo is sweet in the role, playing an inexperienced youngster on a show full of stuffy adults.
George Coe played a notable role in one of the better episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," titled "First Contact" (not to be confused with the feature film). In the episode, Cmdr. Riker had disguised himself and infiltrated a species that was on the cusp of inventing warp drive (an event in "Star Trek" that allows starship-controlling species to make contact). Riker gets found out, however, and Starfleet's first contact doesn't go so well. Coe plays the president of the planet in question, and he has some legitimate, intelligent concerns when he finds out about the aliens on his homeworld. The discussions he has with Picard are pure "Trek."
If you need a bearded engineer type to look sternly over the planned actions of a deathly serious upcoming skirmish, Greg Grunberg is your guy. Grunberg started his career with the stellar straight-to-video horror/smut film "Witchcraft V: Dance with the Devil," though he may be better known for his role as psychic cop Matt Parkman in "Heroes." He's also worked with J.J. Abrams on a number of occasions, including his regular role in the TV series "Felicity" and his brief role as an ill-fated pilot in "Lost."
I look forward to finding out what Discovery wants to be when it grows up, even if that thing is an echo of Star Wars. Because right now the show is still just a farm kid standing on Tatooine staring at a double sunset, with too many different half-baked dreams filling its head for it to truly achieve greatness.
Chris is a veteran journalist and the author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start working as a sub editor on national newspapers in London and Glasgow. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company.Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
Just watched the new Star Wars movie, enjoyed it. That being said, I am disappointed that for the last 30 years in the Star Wars universe nothing notably new has been invented or implemented technology wise. Yes the new planet changed into a death star is interesting but not feasible. Its power source was a star it could draw matter off of to power its main weapon. It pulls enough material off of the star that it self extinguishes, thus in reality the weapon is good for only one shot. After that your planet is adrift in space, with out light speed which would destroy it, and it no longer has a star to use to power its weapons.
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For starters, there's just so much more Star Trek to consume than Star Wars. Including the Star Wars prequels and J.J. Abrams' 2015 flick, that makes seven in-cannon movies. Throw a few cartoons in there, a couple of movies with Ewoks, and that's about it. Meanwhile, Star Trek has a whopping 12 films, five television series with a combined total of almost 30 seasons, and an animated series. Is every episode of Star Trek a five star powerhouse? Of course not. Can we agree that there are some pretty rough Trek movies? Definitely. But when you compare the win/loss columns of both franchises, Star Trek easily comes out on top with way more good stuff than bad. And at least Star Trek had the good sense to stagger its good and bad movies. Those Star Wars prequels were just a never-ending parade of Gungan-flavored suckitude. 2b1af7f3a8