TH E AESTH ETIC OF STAR WARS has never emulated the sleek, clean futurism of Star Trek. The spacecraft in the George Lucas fantasy series, like everything else within it, hail from "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" and show signs of serious use, particularly the ships in the fleet of the perennially outgunned Rebel Alliance. When National Air and Space Museum conservators preserve Star Wars props, they're careful not to "fix" the wear and battle damage the filmmakers built into them by design. No Rebel craft is more recognizable than the X-wing, the nimble class of fighter new recruit Luke Skywalker and his comrades used in their raid on the Death Star, the climax of the 1977 blockbuster that began the legend.
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