# Something odd about the awards scene in Star Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479 "2015-12-15T00:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/1 "2015-12-15T00:32:01Z")
No, not that Chewie didn’t get a medal. There are a shitload of fighter pilots in the crowd. Uh, didn’t every pilot except Luke, Wedge, and whoever was in the only Y Wing left sort of get sploded during the battle? Where did all these other pilots come from? It can’t be they were holding them in reserve, because what reserve, they were seconds away from being utterly obliterated by the d-star, there was no point in keeping reserves. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/2 "2015-12-15T00:35:03Z")
maybe they had more pilots than space craft? ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/3 "2015-12-15T00:57:12Z")
Could also be pilots in training. Wouldn’t do too much good to send them out in combat before they are ready, and they’d still need them around to replace combat losses. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/4 "2015-12-15T01:01:56Z")
Maybe they got a deal on flight suits from the costumer so they put most of the extras in them. ---
**Author:** ![tingbudong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tingbudong/32/520_2.png) [@tingbudong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tingbudong)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/5 "2015-12-15T01:18:37Z")
Apparently the extra involved in that scene openly mocked and insulted the actors as they filmed as they thought the movie was going to be a total disaster. > **[Royal Award Ceremony/Legends](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Award_Ceremony/Legends)** > > A Royal Award Ceremony, also referred to as the Yavin Ceremony, was held within the ruins of the Great Temple on Yavin 4 following the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY. During this ceremony, Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan, honored Luke Skywalker, Han Solo... …and US Marine uniforms for some, international orange US Navy flight suits for others. …unfortunately, the uber-nerd contributers to Wookiepedia don’t seem to have an explanation of why all of those pilots are at the ceremony (I couldn’t find one, anyways). I’ve always though it was along the lines of a previous poster…that the Alliance simply didn’t have enough hardware. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/6 "2015-12-15T01:23:02Z")
Why couldn’t the additional personnel have come from Rebel bases other than Yavin? Surely it wasn’t the only one left in the Galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/7 "2015-12-15T01:29:16Z")
There were rebel forces not on Yavin at the time of the DS attack. You don’t know how much time passes in the cut before that scene. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/8 "2015-12-15T01:31:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Why couldn’t the additional personnel have come from Rebel bases other than Yavin? Surely it wasn’t the only one left in the Galaxy. That’s pretty much my fanwank - these were pilots from bases/ships too far away to have helped out against the Death Star, but made it for the awards ceremony. Remember, the Rebels had very little notice that the Death Star was on the way - a day or two, at most, and more likely less. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/9 "2015-12-15T05:00:19Z")
If your enemy has a world-killing gun, the one thing you never want to do is gather a lot of your forces on one world. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/10 "2015-12-15T05:28:08Z")
I’d say a lot of Rebels would come out of hiding after the Death Star was destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![Vaevictis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f04885/32.png) [@Vaevictis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vaevictis)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/11 "2015-12-15T05:37:45Z")
After all those pilots died there were a lot of extra hand me down suits to pass around. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/12 "2015-12-15T05:45:12Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’d say a lot of Rebels would come out of hiding after the Death Star was destroyed. Especially since it takes the Empire at least two years to strike back, and they’re even less effective than they were at the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/13 "2015-12-16T04:12:10Z")
There are pilots for all sorts of ships besides just fighters. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/14 "2015-12-17T00:36:20Z")
Tangentially related: [Throne Room without the Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/15 "2015-12-17T01:14:04Z")
They aren’t all pilots; it’s like _Star Trek,_ where everybody from any given planet wears exactly the same clothing. The guys who were flying the fighters happened to be from one planet, and everybody from there dresses in flight suits. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/16 "2015-12-17T02:39:02Z")
> [@JXJohns](#): > > There are pilots for all sorts of ships besides just fighters. Pilots for non-fighters don’t wear flightsuits. > [@Ethilrist](#): > > They aren’t all pilots; it’s like _Star Trek,_ where everybody from any given planet wears exactly the same clothing. The guys who were flying the fighters happened to be from one planet, and everybody from there dresses in flight suits. So they were all from Tatooine, since that’s where Luke and Biggs were from and they were wearing the suits. I see. Odd such a remote dustball at the ass end of the galaxy would prove such fertile recruiting ground for the rebellion! To those saying they came from other bases (and yeah, I never disputed they had more at other bases, clearly since they had more on Hoth in Empire), that’s probably the most logical answer, but seems like it wouldn’t fit with the timeframe unless they waited an oddly long time to hand out the awards and didn’t instead use that time to evacuate their no longer secret base (even if not in immediate danger from the d-star anymore, there are still plenty of Star Destroyers that could jump in and wreck their steez). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/17 "2015-12-17T02:59:23Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Tangentially related: > [Throne Room without the Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI). Without music, that is literally the weirdest, most uncomfortable ceremony ever. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/18 "2015-12-17T03:15:48Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Without music, that is literally the weirdest, most uncomfortable ceremony ever. As the OP notes, there is truly something odd about the awards scene. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/19 "2015-12-17T03:51:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Without music, that is literally the weirdest, most uncomfortable ceremony ever. Presumably there was a full symphony orchestra playing in the loft… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479/20 "2015-12-17T04:23:52Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Without music, that is literally the weirdest, most uncomfortable ceremony ever. Especially Chewie’s periodic shrieking. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-odd-about-the-awards-scene-in-star-wars/740479.md?page=2)