I have had some difficulty deciding which of the huge number of parodies of " All I want for Christmas " to pick and include for my selection of Space Opera Christmas parodies. However, it was not difficult to decide that "All I want for Christmas is Batuu" would be one of them as it is probably both the best produced and most entertaining. For anyone who is somehow reading this blog but isn't a total Star Wars nerd, Batuu is where the future Grand Admiral Thrawn (then Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Fleet) first met and worked with the future Darth Vader (then Jedi General Anakin Skywalker) as Chronicled by the Galactic historian Timothy Zahn in the book "Thrawn Alliances." Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn): Amazon.co.uk: Zahn, Timothy: 9781984821027: Books MEGA-NERD WARNING - the rest of this post is aimed at those who are genuinely interested in the very fine detail of Space Opera stories l...

 

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