Gaffer Tape said:

You think so? Star Trek stays just as connected to Starfleet's hip as Star Wars does to the Jedi, if you ask me.

The only abiding difference between Wars and Trek, at least in this respect, is that Trek's universe is a bit less ingrown. For example, Picard doesn't turn out to be Kirk's son, Data wasn't built by young Spock, Soran wasn't Khan's clone, etc.

But, that being said, the actual scope within which the Star Trek series takes place is much smaller than that of Wars. Hyperdrive is apparently capable of travelling from one end of the galaxy to the other within days or weeks, whereas warp technology normally takes around sixty years to accomplish the same feat. Therefore, the Star Wars universe should be portrayed as incredibly immense and ultimately inexhaustible. Instead, Lucas "shrunk" the galaxy to the point where everyone is related to everyone else, and the insignificant desert planet "furthest from the bright center of the universe" shows up in five out of the six movies.

That, I think, is what drives Anchorhead's frustrations. And personally, in this case, I'm inclined to agree with him. This "shrunken universe" phenomenon gets gradually worse as the OT progresses, but takes an Obama-federal-deficit-sized quantum leap with the onset of the PT. Frankly, I'm surprised Ep. 3 didn't include a ten-year-old Han solo winning the Falcon from lil' Lando, whom we later discover is Mace's illegitimate son. (In the ultra-definitive-archival-special-3d 2013 edition of ESB, Lando actually decapitates a storm trooper with his father's purple lightsaber! Ooh! Ahh!)