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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
the rise of AI and automation in the real world certainly make elements of Star Trek seem anachronistic, but changing it to be a more realistic 200-300 years in the future would alter things to the point where it might as well be a brand new sci-fi series. even Star Wars is a little silly that way with everything being conducted as a WWII analog; hell it even had a droid army go toe to toe with a galactic republic led by space wizards, and even after that they're still willing to throw millions of actual living beings into the meat grinder.
but then at the same time you still have people complaining that USS Discovery is way too advanced looking, and would prefer that it looked like a cheap cardboard set from the 1960's purely for visual continuity with TOS.
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Its funny with Star Wars and the Clone Wars, because if you go back and read some of the books, for the most part the citizens of the republic and the Jedi viewed the Clones as no more then battle droids. They didn't really view them as citizens or citizen soldiers of the Republic. So while you can view the Separatists as Nazi's with face less, remorseless soldiers that obey all orders without questions. The Clones were in a lot of ways treated worse by the Republic. They were basically slaves that the Republic was willing to throw away. It was worse for the defective clones. Originally they were liquidated and broken down for spare parts. It was only later that some Jedi pushed for them to be spared and used as basically slave labor.
Sometimes we view the clone wars where you have people like Anakin, Kenobi, Ashoka and even Yoda as treating Clones as living things but you also had other Jedi like Krell etc that treated them as nothing more then flesh based disposable droids.
The thing that people tend to gloss over in the PT is that absolutely Sidious and Grevious and Dooku were the key focus villains. But the Republic which was corrupt and fairly ruthless and in a way anti-democratic were villains in their own right.