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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2267427" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, I'm one of those people that most certainly does not consider Star Wars sci-fi.  It's a typical faerie tale story of farmboy meets wizard, goes on quest to save a princess, learns to use a sword and magic, and ends up slaying the 'dragon' and saving the kingdom.   The fact that the sword is a 'light sabre', the wizard is a 'jedi', and the stead is a starship is pretty much irrelevant.Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are borderline cases which are really hard to classify and it would probably depend on the particular episode in question.  Some of the episodes are science fiction in character, but mostly they are fantasy.Babylon 5 features angels, demons, magic (psionics) and a battle between good and evil.  Psionics are nothing but magic.  They make no attempt to appeal to any rational force, and there is no attempt to explain how they defy principals like conservation of energy.  Likewise, Battlestar Galactica features angels, demons, and is principally interested in theological questions like 'who is god?', 'where do we come from?', 'is this all that there is?' and 'what is the difference between good and evil'?  This was certainly true of the old battlestar galatica, and appears to be true of the new Battlestar Galactica.  So sure, there are some sci-fi elements to both B5 and BG, but both of them belong to the much wider range of fantasy.Star Trek is similarly complex and deals with different themes from episode to episode, but it leans more strongly Sci-Fi than either B5 or BG.  Despite its meaningless technobabble, elves (vulcans), orcs (klingons) the typical episode is that we get to meet something which isn't human, and then we get to see how this thing that isn't human is different or similar to humans.</blockquote>

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