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01-19-2019, 09:35 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,775	Is Star Trek: Discovery trying too hard to be like Star Wars? https://mashable.com/article/star-tr...ery-star-wars/ The Star Trek franchise has been accused before of wanting to be like Star Wars, particularly with J.J. Abrams' Trek movies. New Star Trek: Discovery boss Alex Kurtzman even invited comparisons when he recently said that Star Trek has never given him a Luke Skywalker moment. Discovery managed to avoid the Star Wars comparison in Season 1, says Chris Taylor. But in Season 2, he says, "suddenly I couldn't stop seeing or hearing homages. A lighthearted scene with a sneezing alien in the elevator could have come straight from a Cantina. Pike and Burnham land on an asteroid where a stranded scientist (Tig Notaro, in one of the episode's better performances) has constructed floating drone 'children'; they sounded like the floating torture droid on the original Death Star and looked like Boba Fett's ship. Notaro's base also had that dirty, lived-in, 'used universe' feeling Star Wars pioneered." ALSO: Discovery is stronger and more fun in Season 2.