Nikademus -> RE: Aircraft Carriers in Space (10/1/2012 8:53:44 PM)
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lets face it. our current perception of space is Boring with a capital "B" [:D] So in that sense, I don't get down on Lucas and company for spicing it up. No Sound? yep. Starships and fighter spacecraft don't have to bank like aircraft? check. The original Dune might get a nod for realism as well in the sense that Interstellar travel, was only acomplished via warping/Folding space to traverse huge impossible distances. Other than that ships were fairly conventional IIRC.....(rocket sublight type engines etc) StarWars/StarTrek and their ilk are a hellofalot more fun, even if the latter in particular "conventionalized" the Galaxy to the Nth degree. Movies like Alien.....and believe it or not (If you were a kid at least) the first season of Space 1999 left you feeling alot more insecure in that shows/movies like that tapped into our fear of the Unkown. What's more unknown that what lies out there in Deep Space? Bug eyed monsters? unexplainable phenomenom? Things so "alien" to our understanding that not just our tech but our entire way of looking at things fails to hold up against it. Star Trek in particular made traveling the galaxy, even in exploration a routine thing.
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