Strangely many of the links I used to have to this story have gone dead.

Here's one.

I thought it a bit odd that the show centres on a ragtag fleet fleeing an evil Empire and the last two parts of the OT had a ragtag fleet fleeing an evil Empire.

It also was interesting to find the PT was largely about a war with a bunch of robots built by insectoid aliens renaying their prior treaty obligations.

So maybe Lucas had mentioned future possible story ideas to John Dykstra to prep him for any possible future projects and that is the real stink in the case.

Ralph designing might have stung a bit too.

In the end though neither side could call anything they did unique.