Probably not. But that's why they title these things pretty carefully and why you can't just swap out synonyms for each other in names.
Shampoo is fine, but you would want to rub "Fakecrap" or "Ersatzdung" in your hair, would you?
If they had called it "The Space Fighters," I think it would have done well.
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"The Star Wars"
shareI'm sure that George Lucas was MASSIVELY inspired by Star Trek, no matter what he might say otherwise.
Star Trek seems to have set the standard that any fictional work featuring space, planets and starships should start with the term "star". After all, is there anything that came before that used that term? I can't think of anything.
And Lucas was also inspired by "tractor beams" and "forcefields", too, both major staples of Star Trek.
Don't forget, Star Wars OWES Star Trek its EXISTENCE.
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you couldn't possibly be more wrong
STAR WARS was directly inspired by/ripped off from the Flash Gordon serials, which began in 1936
And, on top of that "forcefields" were standard SF stuff, probably since the '30s... I mean if you read, which both Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas did.
The tractor beam was familiar to me from James White's "Sector General" series, in the 1963 novel Star Surgeon, where harmless tractor beams and pressor beams in turn out to be useable as weapons.
I remember seeing the extended Star Wars trailer ("Somewhere in the universe this may be happening right now.") at Star Trek conventions before the film came out and the lightsabers were not identified by name... I recognized them as "force blades", which were used as knives by troops in the 1953 Andre Norton novel Star Soldiers.
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let's not forget that STAR TREK itself was inspired by/ripped off from 1956's Forbidden Planet
And, while we are regressing, let's not forget that A.E. Van Vogt's Voyage of the Space Beagle (AKA Mission: Interplanetary) made up from stories as early as 1939, was a predecessor to both Trek and Forbidden Planet. As was Heinlein's Starman Jones (1953)... And, you can safely assume there were others in large numbers.
For Trek and Star Wars, Galactic Patrol by E.E, "Doc" Smith is the most obvious crossover, being at least as similar to Star Wars - Lensmen with their crystals being Jedi without the overt mysticism and the Patrol itself being rather like Starfleet.
And really going back, let's not forget how in the Ramayana it speaks of beings and vehicles battling among the stars. Everything ripped off that!
shareDamnit. You may be right. But, of course, the ancient aliens who were the inspiration for all of this may still hold copyright, depending on how that is applied in cases of time dilation.