Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
you'd have to think about it to find there's anything to think about it all, which is why I don't care about little things like that.

It goes back to what I've always believed about Lucas and Star Wars. He wrote A story. It made for one great film, a good sequel in most people's eyes, and an unnecessary third film that was weak. Not having done much else after that, comparatively - he decided to revive the franchise two decades later. However, instead of telling another story, he decided to keep trying to tell that same story. There wasn't really enough story to stretch through three films the first time around, so the next three films were really stretching his original story to it's limits.

Lucas isn't a good storyteller. So, he won't (or doesn't want to) stray away from his one successful story. Instead, he actually sits down and concerns himself with the back-story of completely meaningless details, of single scenes, from 25 year old films - it's embarrassing.

The back-story of how a box of parts was moved from one room to another - that's just pathetic.

Star Trek - a very successful, respected, decades-old franchise - has many different stories, characters, movies, shows, etc. They are separate stories, with separate adventures, different ships, planets, organizations, people, crew members, etc - taking place in different times. Picard doesn't have to have some pretzel-logic back-story that somehow connects him to Kirk. They went to the same academy - that's it, that's how the stories are connected. That's more than enough.

A great story, with interesting characters is vastly superior to a they're-somehow-connected-after-all-these-years story.

Why not have a story \ movie about Han as a young guy becoming a smuggler? - or a film about Lando as a pirate who ends up becoming a successful business owner with a shady past? You could have stand-alone films with a character or two that was familiar, but wasn't dependent on several other films to be complete, or meaningful, or fun to watch. People could use their imagination to connect the stories - or not, if they didn't want to. Either way, they'd have a great movie - a complete story - to watch.

Like they did in 1977.