For Amy & Penny: Star Wars and Star Trek, Here’s the Difference
An Example Essay for my students: Charles Brent Oliver Dr. Rodenberry ENGL 1010 SA1 21 February 2019 For Amy & Penny: Star Wars and Star Trek , Here’s the Difference “[It’s] Star Wars , [not Star Trek ]. They get all cranky when you mix the two up.” “What’s the difference?” “There is absolutely no difference!”—Amy Farrah Fowler & Penny, The Big Bang Theory 5.19 I seem to be made to suffer; it’s my lot in life; and I’ve got a very bad feeling that one of the things I am fated to suffer is the repeated refusal of some people to see the obvious: Star Wars and Star Trek —despite the surface similarities of their names—are very much not the same; and thinking such a thing, like wishing a thing, does not make it so. Now, shall we begin...