The 20th century scientist appeared in an unearthed Tonight Show episode with Johnny Carson from 1978.
A year after the first ever Star Wars film was released, Sagan lashed out at the popular movie for getting science wrong, before accusing it of white supremacy and chauvinism.
The late scientist said: “Star Wars starts out saying it’s in some other galaxy and then you see there’s people.
“Starting in scene one there’s a problem because human beings are a result of a unique evolutionary sequence based on so many individual and, likely, random events on the Earth.”
Sagan continued: “It’s extremely unlikely that there would be creatures as similar to us as the dominant ones in Star Wars.
“There’s a whole bunch of other things: They’re all white.
“The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is like this [gesturing to his own skin].
“Not even the other colours represented on the Earth are present. Much less greens and blues and purples and oranges.”
In the interview Sagan also pointed out something from the closing scene of A New Hope that many a Star Wars fan has had a problem with over the years.
“Also, I felt very bad at the end…the Wookie didn’t get a medal also.
“All the people got medals and the Wookie, who had been in their fighting all the time, he didn’t get any medal.
He dead panned: “I thought that was an example of anti-Wookie discrimination.”
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