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"They weren't civilians!" you cry and scream as you're sentenced to death for the massacre of children at a Shaolin Temple.

It was a horrific mass killing, engineered to eliminate a specific social group from the galaxy. This included the killing of children. Whether or not it constitutes "genocide", according to a definition that was purposefully crafted to avoid opposition from murderous regimes, such as the Soviet Uni...

Trek is bad about that. Every major alien race is just one aspect of human nature and then magnified. B5 did it better bug obviously RMS spent alot of time in his world building then Trek did. Trek did it on the fly. Create a new alien and see if stuck and whatever characteristics the alien race sh...

There are some pretty egregious episodes like Threshold and The Q and the Gray for what a horrific mess they make of the lore/continuity of the show but they're fairly isolated as, indeed, Star Trek: Voyager was in general. If I thought the new writers had even watched Star Trek: Enterprise , I migh...

"Humans are special" or the, even stupider, "humans are diverse". If a show has aliens or fantasy races, they are going to be infinitely more interesting than the humans. I don't need to be pandered to on account of being a human being, like homo sapiens is some kind of marginalised group. As for th...

So, the first answer is that I wouldn't have done anything. If I was in charge, I would just hand either George Lucas' scripts/treatments or an adapted screenplay based on an EU story to a competent production crew and be done with it. If, however, Disney made it clear that neither was an option and...

So let's get some things straight ... Canon refers to a set of texts considered legitimate or genuine or official. It can be related to continuity but doesn't need to. For example, the most famous canon is the Bible but the "canonical texts" within the Bible often contain contradictions when it come...

Starship Troopers ... although it's not so much that others "hate", they just don't get it and lie about it (and its creator - which is ironic, since he himself misunderstood the source material). Judge Dredd (1995). I love it and think it's on a par, quality-wise, with the reboot - though they're c...

The Sixth Sense.

The prequels are great. On a subjective, emotional, level they're wonderful. I was exactly the right age for them and they were exactly the right thing for me; colourful laser swords, weird and wonderful aliens, interesting and varied settings and costume, big and bold theatricality and emotional de...