# Droids make some sense in the original Star Wars trilogy, zero sense in the prequels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344 "2015-06-24T11:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/101 "2015-07-03T23:59:35Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Explicitly covered by the fact that Biggs knows Skywalker and vouches for his piloting. Also, as a rebellion, they are hard strapped for people, and take anyone who wants to join up. Hell, maybe they give him a 5 minute shake down tutorial that we don’t witness, while Leia is busy prepping the data for the presentation. That’s exactly what happened in the NPR dramatization; there’s a brief scene in which Luke is tested in a flight simulator before being cleared for pilot duty. It was a nice solution since it went a little beyond “Biggs vouches for him.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/102 "2015-07-04T03:16:49Z")
Why have slaves when you have droids? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/103 "2015-07-04T15:30:03Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Why have slaves when you have droids? You can make the case that droids as presented in the Star Wars Universe _are_ slaves. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/104 "2015-07-04T17:25:36Z")
The cantina bartender’s line, “We don’t serve their kind in here,” certainly could be interpreted that way. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/105 "2015-07-04T19:21:03Z")
Star Wars shows the difficulty of imagining the future-it is an odd mix of medieval and futuristic themes. The human society has FTL travel, and immensely powerful technology-but people still live on farms (like Luke’s foster parents). I also liked the WWII-style anti-aircraft guns (how did the fire into space)? And the idea of human fighter pilots is pretty strange-. The real problem is with the “DeathStar”-why would the empire need such a machine? they could easily suppress the rebels using mind control or drugs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/106 "2015-07-04T19:30:07Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Star Wars shows the difficulty of imagining the future Or, y’know, _past_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/droids-make-some-sense-in-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-zero-sense-in-the-prequels/723344/107 "2015-07-04T20:46:09Z")
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