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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

mistake Star Trek for Star Wars or something.

One's got space magicians and the others got space wizards

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

mistake Star Trek for Star Wars

I'm all about Stargate 😉

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is that the one with the gates deep in space? Deep gate 9 or something?

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Your rage-baiting skills are impeccable 😆

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Look, they found a way to connect to faraway regions of space and shortcut the journey, and decided a facility was necessary to protect against hostile intrusions and be a hub. Also something about returning control to the natives. Religion / religious zealots bad.

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. This is funny.

  2. As an avid fan of both, I'm not sure which is supposed to be which. Star Trek has all the pazzaz of a magician, psuedo science and technobable explainations. But it also has characters who are literally magical. Meanwhile, Star Wars has old people in secret societies performing rituals in robes - all very wizardly. However, in universe, their "magic" is very well understood, continuously studied, is testable, and even reproducable. They use their well established abilities to trick people, and that's very magician.