Star Trek And Star Wars

Star Trek continues to be a cultural phenomenon because of the timeliness of the philosophies it strives to incorporate in its narratives. Furthermore, the series and its creator, Gene Roddenberry, advocate the core natures of humanity: its innate goodness, the beauty in its diversity, and its curiosity. These advocacies continue to enlighten a new generation of viewers and engender principles of embracing difference and transcending the present to achieve

Star War, Star Trek, those are probably the names that pops into your head when you think of science fiction. However, for over a hundred years, artists and philosophers from all around the world, has never been certain of the true definition of Science Fiction. Although, individual definition of science fiction has erupted in the few decades, especially during the 19th century, when the idea of extraterrestrial surged the media. Today, there are numerous definition of science fiction, each different from one another in its own element. For example, science fiction stories, according to Ray Bradbury are a possibility that has happened in the past or will happen in time. This means that science fiction is the past, the present and the

To some people hearing about these two film might strike nostalgia among the diehard fans. Some might be more ignorant to this concept, and not realise there is a complete and utter difference. The two movie I’m talking about are the most well known science fiction and they are Star Wars and Star Trek. Now to some hearing these two most well known franchise go at it sound supplementary of which one would be better. Obviously Star Wars is the better one of the two because it has a better storyline, great fandom, and better characters.

We are delighted to have the opportunity to examine Star Wars because we feel intimately connected to the film and all that it represents. We grew up with R2D2, C3PO, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca. We dressed up like them for Halloween, we played Star Wars games for countless hours, we imagined ourselves using their futuristic technology, and now we want to study how this artifact has affected our society and how it might affect our future.

In conclusion, science fiction is ultimately a genre of displaying humans present state of being and displaying how catastrophic the future can be if we neglect to point out the flaws and challenge each other. Science fiction of course contains information on aliens, futuristic-looking gadgets, distant worlds, and robots but in the core of it all, sci-fi is the ultimate genre of warning. Warning of hazardous technological advancements and utter carelessness to the craft of inventing. Be careful of what the future holds. The future started yesterday and we’re already

Why do we fear the unknown? In the process of answering this question, science-fiction genre films successfully capture the history of American society at distinct points in time. The genre is so closely linked to social and historical contexts that its development relies solely on this connection. Sci-fi myths and conventions have remained static for decades, and the only measurable change in the genre lies in the films’ themes (Gehring 229-230). For example, Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) argues that fear of the unknown is a flaw in human nature and criticizes the social paranoia of post-war, 1940s America. Conversely, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) views the human existence through more

American television producer David Nevins once said, “When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.” By saying this, Nevins expresses the significance of sharing stories that are unexpected and striking, key components in epic storytelling. He implies that a good epic needs to have both risk and originality, which is clearly demonstrated in Homer’s epic, the Odyssey, and attempted George Lucas’ film, Star Wars: A New Hope. However, these two epics greatly differ from one another when analyzing their heroic and supernatural elements. When set side by side, it is evident

While reading Chris Taylor’s, “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” I became extremely fascinated by the amount of science fiction influences within Star Wars. The best example of this is the Flash Gordon series which Lucas admired growing up. In Chapter 1, Taylor mentions “Lucas has never been shy about referring to Flash Gordon as the most direct and prominent inspiration for Star Wars. “The original Universal serial was on TV at 6:15 pm every day, and I was just crazy about it,” Lucas said after shooting Star Wars in 1976. “I’ve always had a fascination for space adventure, romantic adventures” (Taylor, C).

Star wars, Harry Potter, Finding Nemo, etc have you ever noticed that these are related to each other. It all started with a German anthropologist named Adolf Bastian studied the psychic Unity of mankind and his main theory was no matter race regardless of culture or race share the same psychological mind and way we think. After that he influenced Joseph Campbell to then find to find the different steps of a story that most fictional story can relate to known as the hero's journey. every story has a call to adventure like in star war obi wan gives luke the lightsaber and every story has a refusal like when luke states “I can't get involved! I've got work to do! It's not that I like the Empire. I hate it! But there's nothing I can do about it

The future looked bleak, and literature of the period reflected that. Grim dystopias were the order of the day in science fiction. Then came Star Wars, a futuristic tale coated in a shell of fantasy, chivalry, bravery and knighthood. It promised hope, in a time where societies had little left to spare. This lead to the unexpected and unprecedented success of Star Wars.

As a result, “popcorn space epics,” like Star Wars, were not appealing to Hollywood (Untold). Also, before Star Wars, Hollywood’s science fiction movies were mostly dreary, and were about miserable human societies (Myint). For example, Logan’s Run (1976) was a famous dystopian themed movie that was about a seemingly perfect society in which people over 30 must die (Turner). Since science fiction was not a popular genre at the time, the expectations that the audience had for Star Wars were pretty low. Nevertheless, George Lucas believed that there was a chance for science fiction to be a leading genre in American cinema (Norwich

The science of Star Wars is book written by Jeanne Cavelos, it tries to link the content of the Star Wars trilogies with modern science. It offers the readers the plausibility of the phenomena that occurs in the world of Star Wars. The book is divided into five chapters excluding the introduction. She proceeds from environments to aliens and androids to spaceships and weapons to end with a chapter on “The Force”.

The two most popular Sci-Fi movie franchises are compared a lot to one another either by fans or movie goers everywhere. “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” are the two biggest names that pop up when you think of Sci-Fi films. But a lot of movie goers think that these two franchise are a lot alike, just because they have aliens and there in outer space doesn’t mean the franchise are alike at all. Star Wars and Star Trek are two completely different genres itself when it comes to the Sci-fi genre.

In a genre whose name ostensibly welcomes innovation—science fiction—resistance towards technology may initially seem counterintuitive. This, however, is where it is essential to delve into the annals of history. Writers, after all, write what they know. In an 1948 essay, George Orwell wrote, “When you are on a sinking ship, your thoughts will be about sinking

Moreover, the positive messages embedded in science fiction works can have powerful influence on the audience and the society, both locally and globally. In particular, most of the messages embedded are prompted by the past events of world history or by the contemporary social phenomena, and