Yeah...I love how the vid not only skewers both sides and hilariously at that, but with no mean-spiritedness.Everything is so true...on both sides! The thing is, both ST and SW are not that fundamentally different. For all their good and great points, they have have dumb and dumber points.
Also, I DO agree that in many ways, Q might as well be “magic”, but I also think it’s important to mention that his race is so advanced that his powers only SEEM magical to us. If a person from five hundred years ago traveled to 2020 and saw a Smartphone for the first time, you can bet he/she would believe it to be magical, or spiritual, or mystical in some way. Even people from, say, the turn of the 19th/20th century after Darwin had already published The Origin of Species wouldn’t have the faintest idea WHAT to make of 21st century technology. (Yeah, I know the light bulb/electricity was around, the telegraph and later telephone, early photography and the very first automobiles, but how could a person from this era possibly comprehend the idea of a pocket-sized all-in-one telephone/typewriter/movie theater/phonograph/library/movie camera that doesn’t require film...well you get the idea.
As Arthur C. Clarke wrote:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So there you go.
