Star Wars vs Star Trek

[A Black Falcon]

Whats wrong with wanting realism?

Also, yes, war does definitely increase technology... sometimes it took/takes a lot longer, but war definitely is a catylyst for science... war science, but science.

Its just funny to think of these worlds that are in the standard fantasy realm: Perpetual Middle-to-Late-Middle-Ages-with-magic. Thousands and thousands of years, in many cases, stuck in some timewarp... :) Usually the "explanation" is some lame thing like godes that froze technological progress (D&D has something like that... the gods slowed tech progress and made the races all hate eachother...). It usually doesn't make a whole lot of sense...

Star Wars does the same thing, but in a futuristic world. I mean, 25,000 years of VERY slowly evolving tech? Umm....
However, it does have tech progression... my only question is, as they flesh in the past of Star Wars (with stuff like Knights of the Old Republic) how do they explain that the ships then (which don't seem thousands of years behind the modern-era star wars ones) don't progress at that rate? Of course they can't because if they do the whole history doesn't work, but still its strange. Oh well... 'suspension of disbelief' is called for in these situations, I guess.