# You think the new Star Wars model could work on the Star Trek universe?

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-think-the-new-star-wars-model-could-work-on-the-star-trek-universe/814807/24 "2018-05-29T15:27:11Z")

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> [@Lemur866](#):
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> What would be interesting about that?
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> We already have a million shows and movies and games about space grifters and space smugglers and space outlaws who make their own rules, in space.
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> What would be the point of setting your space outlaw stories canonically in Star Trek?
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> It’s not that I’m 100% sick of space outlaw stories. But I’m not just wondering what space outlaw stories would bring to Star Trek, I’m wondering what Star Trek brings to space outlaw stories.

[This guy.](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Thadiun_Okona) 😃

> [@Star Trek Back Story/Guys who need their own ep.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-back-story-guys-who-need-their-own-ep/779202/36):
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> I’m picturing a seedy space bar: one part Quark’s, one part Mos Eisley cantina, one part Callahan’s. Freebooters hang out there looking for work as does [Vash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters_(T%E2%80%93Z)#Vash) between cases.

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