The documentary Trek Nation features interviews where both Lucas and Roddenberry praise each other's respective franchises, with the former stating that Star Trek was an influence while writing the original screenplay for Star Wars.
The early Journal of the Whills draft of Star Wars from 1973 is based on the first chapter of the 1931 John Carter novel A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Star Wars borrows significantly from Arthurian mythology; especially with respect to plot and main character development.
But actually, Firefly is very directly inspired by Star Trek, which was famously conceived by Gene Roddenberry as a “wagon train to the stars.” Its even more famous tag line describes space as “the final frontier,” clearly positioning the show as basically a Western in space.
Star Trek featured gadgetry and devices that have since become iconic, and that have been directly responsible for inspiring the gadgetry and devices that have come to dominate modern personal technology—including the smartphone and the tablet computer—and perhaps soon to include portable, personal medical devices.
Is there anything like a Jedi in the Star Trek universe? - Quora. There are some beings who possess telekinesis and other powers but they don't really parallel the Jedi or Sith.
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Did Star Wars inspire Star Trek?
The series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s predates George Lucas's galaxy far, far away. However, the success of the first Star Wars movie inspired Roddenberry to bring his TV characters to the big screen. In fact, the difference between the franchises is no more apparent than in those first two films.
Star Wars and Star Trek are both science based and involve space travel and aliens. The Star Trek television series was originally produced in 1966, and it influenced the 1977 beginning of the popular Star Wars films. In 1979, the first Star Trek movie was released.
In the documentary “NASA on the Edge of Forever: Science in Space,” host NASA astronaut Victor Glover stated, “Science and Star Trek go hand-in-hand.” The film explores how for the past 55 years, Star Trek has influenced scientists, engineers, and even astronauts to reach beyond.
In a quote, Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, attributes his inspiration to go forward with his ideas for the original Star Trek series the following year to the success of Dune, and Sci-Fi fandom was born. Dune is an epic story, that happens to take place in a Science Fiction setting.
Some fans were drawn to a franchise that stood out for being unusually hopeful about the future, compared with most other works of science fiction. Rolling Stone credited its appeal to "sunny assurances": "Optimism. Respect for diversity.
My generation grew up with the original Star Wars movies and other epic science fiction franchises (such as Star Gate and Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek and …). But Dune predates them all; it was the first major space epic. I heard it described somewhere as a “space soap opera.” It kinda is.
Yes, warp drive, phasers and transporters have not been developed, not yet; however, everything else about Star Trek is grounded in some form of reality.
What was the real-world inspiration for Star Wars?
While the Star Wars franchise has many sources of inspiration, one of George Lucas' main influences on the films was the Vietnam War. The Empire in Star Wars was inspired by the Nazis during World War II, but Lucas also took inspiration from the United States' actions during the Nixon administration.
The series follows members of the knightly order of Jedi as they are persecuted across the galaxy. What many might not know is the idea of the Jedi was heavily influenced by the real history of the Knights Templar.
In 1971, George Lucas wanted to film an adaptation of the Flash Gordon serial, but could not obtain the rights, so he began developing his own space opera.
The documentary Trek Nation features interviews where both Lucas and Roddenberry praise each other's respective franchises, with the former stating that Star Trek was an influence while writing the original screenplay for Star Wars.
Of all these characters, who is the smartest in the franchise? The easiest answer is 'Q is the smartest,' being a near-omnipotent godlike being. He technically would be classed as the smartest as he literally knows everything (with the one exception of why he is dying in Picard season 2).
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Eugenics Wars are a series of conflicts that occurred between 1992 and 1996, in which the progeny of a human genetic engineering project established themselves as superior "superhumans" and attempted world domination.
Earth is the capital of the United Federation of Planets and is home to important Federation buildings, including Starfleet Headquarters and the office of the Federation President.
The Star Trek replicator is credited in the scientific literature with inspiring the field of diatom nanotechnology. In 1976, following a letter-writing campaign, NASA named its prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise, after the fictional starship.
Did you know NASA's most famous astronaut was also a Star Trek fan? In a 2004 presentation to honor James Doohan upon the actor's retirement, Neil Armstrong made jokes about Klingons and expressed playful envy about Trek-era warp drive.
While the Star Wars ships would certainly put up a good fight, the Star Trek ships would just eventually win out due to the broader range of technologies. I'd even go so far to say that even if you leave the Borg out of the equation that the Star Trek ships would still win out in the end.
Although technically taking place in a galaxy far, far away from the Milky Way galaxy, Earth was used in some pre-Disney-acquisition Expanded Universe sources. One early example was The Star Wars Intergalactic Passport, which noted it was not a valid passport for use in international travel on Earth.
Star Trek is owned by Paramount and CBS, not Disney. However, this isn't anything new for Disney. In fact, Disney is doing a Friends reboot, Sharknado 7, and a Purge movie at Disney World.
