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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Angel" data-source="post: 4724896" data-attributes="member: 13334"><p>Although the connection between westerns and planet-hopping sci-fi go way back, Firefly did carve out a special niche for western motifs in modern science fiction, and Dawning Star availed itself of that and I'm sure it occurred to them that this would appeal to the fans of Firefly.  I'm not sure in what sense you'd compare it to 2001 except in a sort of general influence, and I don't see it as very Star Trek-like, though I consider tech level as a signature element of Trek-iness.  Important ways that Dawning Star differs from Firefly show in the use of alien races, particularly the indistinguishable-from-magic alien artifacts of pre-cursor races making their influence felt in human events.</p></blockquote><p></p>