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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 and 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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