Does George Lucas like Star Trek?

[Amasov]

I've always wondered this. While I was listening to the commentary on one of the Star Wars DVDs, Lucas does mention Trek here in there. Aside from that, I've never heard him ever speak about it - not even when he talks about the creation of Star Wars. Now if Star Trek had some influence on the creation of Star Wars, I don't know.

But, does anyone know? Is George Lucas a fan of Trek?

 

[Michael]

I really don't know. But judging from the faces of the SW people in this video they don't seem to like Trek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o

 

[exodus]

Lucas has always been seen as someone who's very respectful of others as well as his peers. I don't think he was influenced by Trek in making Star Wars(it seems classic Buck Rodgers & Flash Gordon are more to his liking)but I do believe he has respect for what Trek has brought to the industry.

Lucas just comes off as a real nice guy & people person but not a Trek fan as we are Trek fans.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Harrison Ford seemed to enjoy it, as well as Steven Spielberg; Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, however, didn't look pleased when he came out on stage.

 

[exodus]

middyseafort said:
^Harrison Ford seemed to enjoy it, as well as Steven Spielberg; Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, however, didn't look pleased when he came out on stage.

I think they were just stunned.

..but that was freakin' funny!
Shatner has a great sense of humor.

 

[RyanKCR]

I read in a magazine that at one of the anniversaries (25th?) at a connvetion that Roddenberry was at Darth Vader appeared on stage and handed Gene a telegram from Lucas congratulating him.

 

[StarMan]

Does George Lucas like Star Trek?

I don't know about Trek's later incarnations, but he's certainly a fan of The Original Series.

 

[Amasov]

Very, very cool. I've always been interested to hear Lucas' thoughts on Star Trek.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

According to Wookiepedia, citing a book by David Pollock entitled Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas, states:

Lucas considers himself a "Trekkie" and has cited Star Trek as his inspiration for working with sci fi. He also finds hypothetical "war" scenarios (cf. Star Trek vs. Star Wars) distasteful.

Wookieepedia entry on George Lucas

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I remember when cliff howard met him somewhere in casting for some role, and Lucas said, breaking the ice immediately: "Balok, Corbomite Maneuver!"

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

yay i'm a fleet captain!

 

[Amasov]

YYZ said:
I remember when cliff howard met him somewhere in casting for some role, and Lucas said, breaking the ice immediately: "Balok, Corbomite Maneuver!"

That is AWESOME!

Best episode of ANY Star Trek ever, btw!

 

[137th Gebirg]

exodus said:
Lucas has always been seen as someone who's very respectful of others as well as his peers. I don't think he was influenced by Trek in making Star Wars(it seems classic Buck Rodgers & Flash Gordon are more to his liking)but I do believe he has respect for what Trek has brought to the industry.

Lucas just comes off as a real nice guy & people person but not a Trek fan as we are Trek fans.

Yeah, except when it came to Battlestar Galactica - which, by the way, was acquitted of any wrong-doing, and was exonerated by the judge who adjudicated the case of having been different enough to not have been a "rip-off".

But hell, what do I know?

Oh, yeah...

Shatner ROCKS!!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

indeed
he distinctive character actor Clint Howard (Commander Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver") doesn't have vivid memories of the time he spent on the original Star Trek, because he was only six years old at the time. But he remembers some of the repercussions of having played that role. In the mid-70's Clint was called in for a preliminary interview for a movie called "Star Wars." "I walked into the room, and there was George Lucas and Francis Coppola. First thing George says to me, 'Commander Balok! Corbomite Maneuver!' It was the last thing I expected him to say. Obviously he's a Trekkie!" In spite of this enthusiastic recognition, though, Clint didn't get a part in the Lucas saga.
Almost 30 years after playing Balok, Clint returned to Star Trek to play a part in the DS9 episode "Past Tense, Part II." To his surprise, the people on that show had no idea he was on the Original Series. It was actually Jonathan Frakes, the director of that episode, who figured it out first."

I copied this text from a message board just now but I remember reading it in the 30 anniversary Star Trek tribute magazine

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Indeed Clive Revell is the only actor that had a speaking part in ST and SW. In Trek, he was the alien in the Last Outpost, and he was Sir Guy in QPid, and in ESB he was the voice of the Empire before the revisions were made on the 2004 DVD release.

 

[Thrall]

He doesn't like the way Paramount keeps doing, in his view, "it over and over and over again". Like new series and movies every few years. That's one of the reasons he's not doing anymore Star Wars films. It would cheapen them in his view.

 

[Sharr Khan]

Thrall said:
He doesn't like the way Paramount keeps doing, in his view, "it over and over and over again". Like new series and movies every few years. That's one of the reasons he's not doing anymore Star Wars films. It would cheapen them in his view.

Ahem... Star Wars Tv series...
But I think the nature of Star Wars and Star Trek is different - Trek is first and foremost a creature of television.

Sharr

 

[exodus]

137th Gebirg said:

exodus said:
Lucas has always been seen as someone who's very respectful of others as well as his peers. I don't think he was influenced by Trek in making Star Wars(it seems classic Buck Rodgers & Flash Gordon are more to his liking)but I do believe he has respect for what Trek has brought to the industry.

Lucas just comes off as a real nice guy & people person but not a Trek fan as we are Trek fans.

Yeah, except when it came to Battlestar Galactica - which, by the way, was acquitted of any wrong-doing, and was exonerated by the judge who adjudicated the case of having been different enough to not have been a "rip-off".

But hell, what do I know?

That's business and determined by Lucas' legal staff who saw BSG as a copyright infringement. None of that has anything to do with Lucas the man or his personality.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I loved Shatner's speech and song to Lucas at the ADFI ceremony..!

 

[StolenThunder]

Not enough laser swords.