From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > Battlestar Galactica being the most obvious and often described as   
   > "Star Wars for TV".   
      
   and the legendary lawsuit over it seemed obvious to me: was it trying its   
   hardest to be mistaken for Star Wars?  Yes.  Can they do that?  Given that   
   they paid Ralph McQuarrie and John Dykstra to do those things they do, sure.    
   (I may be biased as I    
   wanted more Star Wars on TV!)   
      
   On defense put out (in public relations, at least) was that Galactica was in   
   development long before Star Wars.  I can believe that, but that if not for   
   Star Wars, any TV show we'd have gotten would have been something like the   
   Space: 1999 or Ark II TV    
   shows we got.   
      
   A preemptive defense would be to at least pretend the project is based on   
   something pre-existing Star Wars.  Star Trek and Flash Gordon are actually   
   developed from their original stories, given a special effects upgrade.  Buck   
   Rogers, Lensmen, and Shape    
   of Things to Come are -in that order- Star Wars rips painted in the colors of   
   another property.   
      
   Oh!  Two other '70s space operas, from Japan:   
   Message from Space - if you remember a giant sailing ship in space, this is it   
      
   War in Space - (some titles aren't even trying!) a submarine/tan   
   /spaceship/drilling machine vs. another space sailing ship, a galley, with   
   oars!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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