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it tries to tie the progresses in science and techology to make a statement about humanity.
I don't think star wars says that except for "what if there was a gun so big you could shoot a planet?"
Which seems to be a smarter question than your "statement about humanity" when actually living in that humanity where all the time someone is trying to build a gun as big as possible in many contexts and interpretations.
Seems like you're making a a bad faith argument.
Star Trek deals with lots of different technologies and their potential impacts on human behaviour; some people don't want to use the transporter or develop phobias from it, the replicators eradicate hunger and poverty (at least on earth) so society evolves to be more egalitarian, what if we could travel faster than light, etc etc.
Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies' potential impact on humanity, which is the point of harder sci fi.