Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by thrash

On the other hand, ObiWan Kenobi is a hero. Regardless, Marc Miller has said that Star Wars came out too late to really influence the original design of Traveller. At best, Star Wars and Traveller drew from the same source material in similar ways.

Kenobi is a sympathetic hero to the audience, but he's still a survivor of the the previous galactic civil war who apparently fought on the side that is losing the current civil war, but more importantly:

Originally Posted by thrash

I have to modify this: in his White Dwarf #23 interview, Marc Miller said, "Movies and television particularly affected me."

This means Marc Miller inhaled as much FORBIDDEN PLANET and its train of influences (TWILIGHT ZONE, OUTER LIMITS) as Lucas et al did.