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Article: Creating and Comparing Myth in Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: Star Trek and Star Wars
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- Literature/Film Quarterly
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- January 1, 2005
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"Most legends have their basis in facts."
James T. Kirk, "And the Children Shall Lead" (1968)
"[...] many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker, Return of the Jedi (1983)
According to Susan L. Schwartz, "Star Trek is a vast modern mythos" that counteracts "the fickleness of American culture and its search for the rational, factual, and real" even though "it is not historically true" (131). To an extent Schwartz is correct in her assertion. Star Trek does play the part of a modern day myth; however, to say that it bears no resemblance to historical fact is inaccurate. Star Trek's, cultural value with its own fans would be ...