Star Wars has been around long enough to exhaust pretty much every sci-fi trope. In fact, it’s been around long enough to establish sci-fi tropes, then repeat them decades later. From cloning to time travel, every possible nook and cranny of sci-fi has been explored in its far, far away galaxy.
That, at least, is how it feels. But the recent finale of the family-friendly adventure series Skeleton Crew found a strange blindspot, a classic sci-fi go-to that’s never been explored in Star Wars canon. And now that it’s finally been included, it could change one of the biggest things we know about the franchise.
