On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Brett Cox wrote:
> I thoroughly enjoyed _Star Wars_ when I saw it the first time, and
> the time after that. But I've never loved it as much as some--even
> as a "popcorn movie," I vastly prefer _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
>
> As for how "damaging" it was, I think you could make a case--and
> some commentators have--that it was indeed damaging in that it,
> along with _Star Trek_, precipitated the rise of the media
> tie-in books that have shoved so many other books off the shelves.
>
*Star Trek* changed the sexual composition of sf fandom, which had been
almost all male until then. This strikes me as a Major Good Thing.
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