Where Did YODA (Star Wars) Come From?

[Trunk]

@DigitalC

I don’t really know where he came from but i assume hes involved with humans for the same reason all the other aliens are, because they have too. He wasn’t the only one though, you can see a female yoda sitting in the jedi council in the prequels. Her name is Yaddle and you can see a picture in her wiki.

Looks like Mr. Spock fucked the Grinch.

[jayjay]

@CalMeacham

That Wookieepedia is interesting. Here’s the entry on Yoda’s species, which notes that another named member is Vandar Tokare:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_tridactyl_species

Even as a fellow Star Wars geek, I can truly say that those people have WAY too much time on their hands…

[Cluricaun]

@ataraxy22

I thought he was a Whills.

Like Bruce Whills?

[Revenant_Threshold]

@CalMeacham

That Wookieepedia is interesting. Here’s the entry on Yoda’s species, which notes that another named member is Vandar Tokare:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_tridactyl_species

Vandar is the guy from KOTOR that’s being talked about above.

[silenus]

@Tristan

According to my Star Wars geek friend, Yoda was hiding on Dagobah. Due to a Sith lord being killed there centuries before, the planet is “polluted” with Dark Side energy. This enabled Yoda to hide from Palpatine and Vader, who were busily going through the galaxy skragging the Jedi’s.

Of course, it’s possible he’s wrong.

He isn’t. I think Tim Zahn touched on this point in one of the “Heirs To The Empire” books. Luke goes back to Dagobah in his search for something, and the information is relayed to us as a memory of something Yoda told Luke. In fact, IIRC, it was Yoda who hunted down and offed the Dark Jedi (not Sith!) in the first place. That’s how he knew of its existance.

[Tristan]

@silenus

He isn’t. I think Tim Zahn touched on this point in one of the “Heirs To The Empire” books. Luke goes back to Dagobah in his search for something, and the information is relayed to us as a memory of something Yoda told Luke. In fact, IIRC, it was Yoda who hunted down and offed the Dark Jedi (not Sith!) in the first place. That’s how he knew of its existance.

Ah HA! Got it. Dark Jedi.

Several Years ago, I went out on Halloween as a Dark Jedi. Had to explain to folks that Dark Jedi doesn’t just mean Sith. Cretins!

Thank you for the addendum. I think you just enabled me to level up my geekness.

[hopesperson]

@DigitalC

I don’t really know where he came from but i assume hes involved with humans for the same reason all the other aliens are, because they have too. He wasn’t the only one though, you can see a female yoda sitting in the jedi council in the prequels. Her name is Yaddle and you can see a picture in her wiki.

You can tell she’s female, because of the long hair. Apparently, it has always (and everywhere) been thus.

[FatBaldGuy]

@Vinyl Turnip

He was once a creature very much like an Ewok. One day he and his brother Zoda were out fishing and Zoda discovered a shiny gold ring, which fascinated Yoda. They fought over the ring and Yoda killed Zoda by strangling him. The ring consumed Yoda, and as the years passed he became deformed, losing both his cute fluffy fur and the ability to speak grammatically.

Groan…

I think I need a new keyboard.

[Yllaria]

@hopesperson

You can tell she’s female, because of the long hair. Apparently, it has always (and everywhere) been thus.

You mean they managed to dump the all females are mammals, even when they aren’t idea? I don’t remember seeing her, so I’m not sure if they get credit for that, or if they just did the ‘boobs shrivel up when you get old’ thing.

And as much as I scoff at the universal long hair or mammaries thing, I also think of the salt shakers on Star Trek TOS. Yes, they could have left the futuristic salt shakers on the table, instead of installing them in sick bay. But then they’d have had to say “pass the salt” to identify them as salt shakers.

How do you identify an alien as female without hanging a symbol from our culture on them or a sign saying ‘female’?

[CalMeacham]

How do you identify an alien as female without hanging a symbol from our culture on them or a sign saying ‘female’?

If you’re Gary Larson, you give her Harlequin Glasses.

[BrainGlutton]

@Merijeek

Part of the whole idea in Star Wars is people are people and stuff are stuff. There isn’t a lot of “oooh, what’s this guy with the funny head bumps want” because he’s just a person.

-Joe

OTOH, one point about the SW universe never has been adequately addressed/explained (in the movies, I mean; nothing else exists, I repeat, nothing else exists): The position of Homo sapiens relative to other species. Sometimes humans appear to be no more than equals in Republic/Empire society; at other times they appear to be a master race. Obviously Jar-Jar Binks’ people are native to Nauvoo and the humans are colonists, as humans are on a great many other worlds, and as Europeans once were in what are now “Third World” countries. The Jedi are multispecies, but the Imperial officers and troops are (almost) all human. Etc.

[TWDuke]

@Yllaria

How do you identify an alien as female without hanging a symbol from our culture on them or a sign saying ‘female’?

Give her long eyelashes and a bow? Do parents still tape bows to their baby girls bald heads?

[jayjay]

@BrainGlutton

OTOH, one point about the SW universe never has been adequately addressed/explained (in the movies, I mean; nothing else exists, I repeat, nothing else exists): The position of Homo sapiens relative to other species. Sometimes humans appear to be no more than equals in Republic/Empire society; at other times they appear to be a master race. Obviously Jar-Jar Binks’ people are native to Nauvoo and the humans are colonists, as humans are on a great many other worlds, and as Europeans once were in what are now “Third World” countries. The Jedi are multispecies, but the Imperial officers and troops are (almost) all human. Etc.

The Empire was speciesist, so almost all of their officers and troops and government functionaries are human (with the notable exception of Admiral Thrawn), and all planets in the Empire’s boundaries (even worlds with alien majorities) were ruled by the human bureaucracy. The Old Republic was ostensibly multi-cultural, as is the New Republic, so alien worlds ruled the OR/NR between all of them in the Senate. Many “alien” worlds are actually human colony worlds, of course (like Corellia). The real question would be, “Do humans from Coruscant and Corellia and Naboo, etc., consider themselves to all be ‘human’, or do they consider themselves Coruscantians, Corellians, Naboites, etc.?”

[TWDuke]

@BrainGlutton

The Jedi are multispecies, but the Imperial officers and troops are (almost) all human. Etc.

Apparently the original storm troopers were clones. Once you start mass producing the armor, maybe it’s just simpler to use humans. Similarly, vehicles, housing, uniforms, and all kinds of supplies are probably just better suited to humans. With an abundance of humans to draw from and absent equal-opportunity laws, there just wouldn’t be a compelling reason to enlist members of the giant floating jellyfish race.

(In real life, of course, using non-human characters in your live-action film tends to drive up production costs.)

[Cluricaun]

An even better question that was never addressed and that I’ve mentioned before is what did the bathroom in Mos Eisley look like? There would have to be some serious hardware just to contain the pee of the universe and to accomodate the different going styles and substances that could show up.

I mean could you imagine stopping in to have a few Galatic Beers only to find out that they don’t have a facility for you to use?

I’ll bet that’s why that one guy was so pissed at Luke. He wasn’t a bad guy, he just needed to pee.

[levdrakon]

@Cluricaun

An even better question that was never addressed and that I’ve mentioned before is what did the bathroom in Mos Eisley look like? There would have to be some serious hardware just to contain the pee of the universe and to accomodate the different going styles and substances that could show up.

I’d guess that given the level of their robotic technology, they’d just have toilet stalls where you push a button for what you need, and the toilet reconfigures itself.

[xizor]

@ataraxy22

I thought he was a Whills.

What chew talkin’ 'bout Whills?

[Cluricaun]

@levdrakon

I’d guess that given the level of their robotic technology, they’d just have toilet stalls where you push a button for what you need, and the toilet reconfigures itself.

So like an R2Pee2?

[levdrakon]

@Cluricaun

So like an R2Pee2?

Oh c’mon. It’d have to be CPee3O. “I am conversant in over 10,000 forms of bodily excretions.”

[zoid]

@ralph124c

Was there ever an explanation of how his kind became involved with humans? And, why was there only one? Was he the last remnent of a species that died out?

I always wondered the same things about Michael Jackson and Ron Jeremy.