An odd coincidence

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-14 05:05am

Have any of your watched the movie Dark Star???

(Not in any way connected to that weirdo spammer)

Anyway, the starship in that movie bears a resemblance to an Imperial Star Destroyer.... but the movie is from 1974, predating Star Wars by several years.....

I'm sure this is nothing but a mere coincidence, but it's quite interesting.

There's also the fact that Yuuzhan Vong crab armour looks strikingly like the armour worn by the Dark Eldar of Warhammer 40K, but I'm not sure whether how many people would pay attention to that...

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-04-14 08:00am

A John Carpenter film? Wow...

Found a site here

Four astronauts travel around the universe indentifying and destroying unstable planets that might turn into black holes. The ship is called Dark Star, hence the films title.

Odd coincidence indeed....[/quote]

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2003-04-14 11:06am

Maybe this explains why Dorkstar is so anti-SW. GL ripped off his ideas!

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-04-14 02:39pm

Aside from a triangular shape, it doesn't resemble a Star Destroyer in the slightest, to my eyes.

HOWEVER, there was a crappy sci-fi movie from the mid-'80s that had ships that looked exactly like Y-wings and A-wings... because they used the same exact models that Lucas had used in his trilogy (well, slightly altered, in the case of the A-wing). I forget the movie's title, though.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-04-14 05:23pm

I'd almost be yupping about this, but I know for a fact that WWII battlehips were the inspiration for ISDs, namely thier towers.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-04-14 05:26pm

The concept designs for the ISD don't look anything like that, so I doubt there was any influence. Like Cal Wright said, the designs were taken off of WW2 warships more than anything else.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-15 02:08am

SPOOFE wrote:HOWEVER, there was a crappy sci-fi movie from the mid-'80s that had ships that looked exactly like Y-wings and A-wings... because they used the same exact models that Lucas had used in his trilogy (well, slightly altered, in the case of the A-wing). I forget the movie's title, though.

I can't remember it, but there was another crappy sci-fi movie from the 1980s which used exactly the same spaceship models as Battlestar Galactica...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-15 05:32am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:I can't remember it, but there was another crappy sci-fi movie from the 1980s which used exactly the same spaceship models as Battlestar Galactica...

Space Mutiny from 1987. Episode 820 of MST 3K.

And no, the ISD is not based on the Dark Star. If you actually watch the movie, you'll see that it doesn't even have the same shape.