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It has been convincingly argued here, and many other places, that the orphan Anaki Skywalker was in reality, created by the Palpatine and the Sith using there dark powers.
I disagree.
Not only because this would leave the ending of "Return of the Jedi" the most disfunctional family since your average Greek tragedy, but because I've come up with a much more logical solution.
Follow my reasoning.
Anakin was a self-obsessed, angsty, disgruntled teen who couldn't find a believable piece of dialogue if the universe depended on it. His son, Luke, was a self-obsessed, angsty, disgruntled teen who couldn't find a believable piece of dialogue if the universe depended on it. Both of them were the most powerful users of the Force in their day. I am going to assume that these are genetic traits so all we need to do is find another powerful, angsty, self-obsessed, disgruntled teen who couldn't find a believable piece of dialogue if the universe depended on it.
Who else could that be but....
Wesley Crusher....
Sure, he didn't have use "the Force" exactly, but how else do you explain this kid being able to save the Enterprise, the Federation, and the Universe itself, on a bi-weekly basis?
Sure, he is not from a galaxy far far away, or from a time long, long, ago. But when TNG ended, Wesley had ascended to a higher plane, where time/space/speed were all controlled by thought. It would not have taken much for the Traveler's friend Wesley to cross interdimensional boundries from the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe.
You might ask yourself, why would Wesley Crusher have done this? The answer is the not-so-simple time paradox thing that Star Trek loves to play with. If there were no Star Wars, then there would have been no Star Trek Movie. If there were no successful Star Trek Movie, then Star Trek, The Next Generation, would not have been created. If it would not have been created, then the character of Wesley Crusher would not have been created. So in order to insure that Wesley is created, he must insure that Darth Vader--or Anakin Skywalker--is created. So he goes back in time and across a few dimensions, buys himself a slave for the evening (how else would Wesley ever become a father?), and add some Trek-inspired techno-babble in the form of Midochloridians, and tada.
Of course, when Wesley returns thirty years later and meets Darth Vader, he would say, "I am your father, Darth."
At which point Darth Vader would throw his hands up in the air and scream "NNNNOoOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
And this time he'd have a good reason to.
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Actually, in the original plot for Episode 8, Luke travels back in time and becomes Anakin's father. That's why the Force is so concentrated in their family. It's an endless loop.
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quote:Actually, in the original plot for Episode 8, Luke travels back in time and becomes Anakin's father. That's why the Force is so concentrated in their family. It's an endless loop.
That's why they could never make film 8. The royalties for the theme from Deliverance were too high.
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However, are we completely discounting Anakin's mother's claim that there was no father? Unless Wesley came in the form of incubis, it seems like she'd remember him. Posts: 1947 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I'd have to see the DNA tests before I believed that! Besides I had heard rumors about Starbuck!!
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