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I think Star Wars covers all sci-fi ideas. Am I wrong?

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I think I found all of them. Did I miss any? Enjoy my list.
I did a lot of research and I think I found everything their is to find on Wookieepedia when it comes to sci fi Ideas. Did I miss any?
Here’s my research

-Shrink Ray- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Molecular_disruptor

-Matter replicator- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Food_synthesizer https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Forge?mobile-app=false -

Teleportation- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Teleporter?mobile-app=false

-Terraforming- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Terraforming?mobile-app=fal…

-Megastructures- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Iokath_system?mobile-app=fa…

-Weather control- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Weather-control_station?mob… -

Gundam- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mech?mobile-app=false

-Sex robots- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sex_droid?mobile-app=false

-Time machine- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Harbinger_(Sith_dreadnaught)

-Mind uploading- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_uploading?mobile-app=f…

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_Flayer?redirect=no

-Parallel universes- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Timeshadow?mobile-app=false

-Gender change- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Transgenderative_surgery

-Nootropics (Cognitive enhancers)-

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_stimulant

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mnemiotic_drug

-Fully immersive virtual reality- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Virtual_reality

-Nanotech- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nanotechnology/Legends?mobi…

-Smaller than nanotech- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chu-Gon_Dar_cube
Note: Transmogrification of this sort would be femtotechnology

-Bioships-https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sekotan_Personal_Starship Starship

-Wormhole travel- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hyperspace_wormhole

-Uplift- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Chubar

-Panopticon- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Republic_Judiciary_Central_…

-Augmented reality- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Translation_visor?mobile-ap…

-Digital afterlife- https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gatekeeper

-Anti-aging-https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Telomere_genotherapy

-Intangibility-https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Phase

-Body swapping-
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_transplant

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_transfer_device

-Resurrection-
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aeon_Engine?mobile-app=fals…

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Reanimation_serum?mobile-ap…

-Zombie plague-
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_bioweapons_Project…

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Yes, I would actually say that, in answer to your title question, you are wrong.

ray_afraid said:

Star Wars has shoe-horned & ham-fisted every sci-fi trope into some story, somewhere, sometime.

Now this may be true, but scifi, as I consider it, is much more about themes - particularly those pretty well summarised in the wikipedia article. And while even some of that may on occasion have become tropey, the best scifi has lots of thematic substance, I feel. I consider Star Trek TNG to be a near-perfect representation of the type of mix of:

discussing current political/religious/cultural affairs via a “future” setting,
discussing human emotions,
discussing AI, augmented reality, etc. (“scifi” topics) in a culturally relevant, often moralistic sense,

and some other things that I love scifi for.

Star Wars has politics, sure, but mostly it is not scifi at all, but space fantasy. I mean really, is it closer to Blade Runner or to Flash Gordon? I think the answer is clear.

reylo?