No. In Star Wars, droids are very clearly and explicitly treated as second-class citizens, if they are considered people at all.
In Star Wars, your average Roger-roger combat droid is a cheap, expendable commodity, to the point where they aren’t even fitted with the hardware to support their sapience. They are reliant on a connection to a command ship to have its computers do that instead. Wiping their memory banks is both accepted and standard procedure.
By comparison, in Star Trek, most sapient and alien robots are treated as people. The only times that we see people in the Federation struggle with accepting inorganic sapience, is when it pops up unexpectedly from something that wasn’t supposed to be sapient to begin with, like in the case of Voyager’s EMH, or the ExoComps.
No. In Star Wars, droids are very clearly and explicitly treated as second-class citizens, if they are considered people at all.
In Star Wars, your average Roger-roger combat droid is a cheap, expendable commodity, to the point where they aren’t even fitted with the hardware to support their sapience. They are reliant on a connection to a command ship to have its computers do that instead. Wiping their memory banks is both accepted and standard procedure.
By comparison, in Star Trek, most sapient and alien robots are treated as people. The only times that we see people in the Federation struggle with accepting inorganic sapience, is when it pops up unexpectedly from something that wasn’t supposed to be sapient to begin with, like in the case of Voyager’s EMH, or the ExoComps.