It’s like the racing tip scene from Day at the Races.
Farmer: Hey, droid salesman, what’s with this R2 unit you sold me? I can’t understand a word he says.
Chico: Oh, you just need to use your translator unit.
Farmer: Translator unit? I haven’t got any translator unit.
Chico: You don’t got one? You’re just wasting your money buying an R2 unit without a translator.
Farmer: Do you know where I can get one?
Chico: Well, just by accident I happen to have one right here.
I think Chico’s last name is probably Haney.
[Alec Guinness, slowly raising an eyebrow]
Bagginses, Boffins, Tooks, Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Proudfoots and Skywalkers.
Huh.
You know, I don’t think I ever thought it through before, but: in the prequels, Anakin Skywalker sounds as all-American as, oh, say, James Earl Jones — and then he spends decades sounding like James Earl Jones — and then, after he finally embraces his role as a good guy, he for the first time ever starts instead talking like a Royal Air Force officer with a posh British accent?
Are Star Wars humans the same species as Earth Homo Sapiens?
Many alien species such as Kryptonian, Asgardian, and Gallifreyan appears superficially human.
What exactly does “first” mean in the context of time traveling?
Note: not a serious question, just a smart-ass remark.
And here without the title I would have thought it was about ornithology. “The Millenium Geejaw” just doesn’t quite have the same ring…
The Silver Age Superman and Superboy stories featured large numbers of aliens who looked exactly like (caucasian) humans from Earth. If there was any in-canon explanation offered for this I’m unaware of it.
Serious answer though: in-universe canon, before they were the Time Lords the inhabitants of Gallifrey were an ancient race of monster slayers, who tamed what would otherwise have been a Lovecraftian universe into something humanoids could hope to survive and thrive in. Their extermination of the Racnoss and the Great Vampires for example.
The simplest (but least easy for me to swallow) explanation is that God created humans (everywhere) in his own image.
Among the Kzinti of Niven’s Known Space stories, there was a heretical cult that believed that God created humans in His own image. Humans, specifically. Not Kzinti.
What? You guys kept winning!
It’s true. In fact, Ziro was basically doing a Truman Capote impersonation.
The only way for them to be the exact same species would be for humans from Earth to go into the Star Wars galaxy, or vice versa. It has never been stated nor implied that this is the case, just that whatever galaxy they’re in is “far, far away” from ours, and the events portrayed happened a “long, long time ago”.
I just assumed it was supposed to be an extreme example of convergent evolution.
I believe that the humans in Star Wars originated on Coruscant, per the 2017 book Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia. That’s the most definitive source on the matter AFAIK. Since the humans of their galaxy evolved on that planet, and we evolved on Earth, it’s just a matter of two separate species being nearly identical despite having no common ancestor.
Granted, but — when guiding off precise calculations — someone once said that travelin’’ through hyperspace ain’t like dustin’ crops, in that doing it without precise calculations could mean flying right through a star, or bouncing too close to a supernova.
Unspoken: without calculations, could Captain Crash and crew wind up blindly hyperspacing their way to another galaxy?
Sure, if the plot of a story was based around that. The “rules” around hyperspace travel – or pretty much any technology – in the Star Wars universe are always subject to change or reinterpretation, in the service of plot.
But, AFAIK, there has not ever been a canonical Star Wars story which has attempted to make any connection between the “humans” in the Star Wars galaxy, and we humans on Earth.
Well, there’s this…
I’d not seen that before. It’s cute, but it’s from the pre-Disney era for Lucasfilm, and even back then, it looks like that comic series was largely considered to be non-canonical. As that article notes:
Prior to Disney buying Lucasfilm, stories like in the Dark Horse comics were considered to be “B-level” canon: they were the “Expanded Universe,” and weren’t at the same level of canonical information as the movies…but they were generally considered to be at least somewhat canon, until contradicted by something that Lucas himself helmed (i.e., the movies).
When Disney bought Lucasfilm, all of the old Expanded Universe stuff was demoted to “Legends” status – the only canon which is now recognized is material which is directly created by Lucasfilm/Disney (that does include the newer novels and Marvel comic books, which Disney directly oversees).