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Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers

Janet Kuypers
10/10/14

I heard another episode of Star Trek
where they mentioned duranium,
so I looked it up online...

Duranium is an extremely hard
alloy, used in starship hulls
and hand-held tools.

But at the same time,
Google listed a slew of links
for this elusive duranium —

and one of them
was not for Star Trek,
but for Star Wars.

So, I followed the link
because there’s a Wookieepedia
site for the Star Wars Wiki...

The Revenge of the Sith novel
explains that duranium is stronger
than either Transparisteel or Bronzium.

Oh, I could go on
about other details
about this imaginary substance,

but it just made me laugh
when I hear terms used in Star Trek
that were also used in Star Wars.

Then, of course, my mind
went to Star Wars again,
because if you don’t have

science fiction for ideas,
you might have to use history itself,
because the only difference

between the storm troopers
in Star Wars is that they wore white
versus the Nazi brown shirt stormtroopers.

Because like the Nazi SS,
the brownshirts of the stormtroopers,
when they all arrived en masse

their uniforms made them all blend
into one large force that
no one individual could flee.

I know, I know, storm troopers
in Star Wars covered their faces
with their head gear, but that trick

may have been the one thing
to make the soldiers better than the SS:
they could still say they were only

“following orders”, and this way
it’s much harder to identify your enemy
when you can’t even see their face...



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