Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.
Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.
The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then…use it as a saber.
To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn’t exist.
Space opera, specifically.
its like BSG, its also space opera(at least the reimagined one)
Space Western
The most known version of which is FireFly (or Red Dwarf?)
I’d argue Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, and also Trigun are more ‘Space Western’ than StarWars is.
I think space opera can be sci-fi or fantasy? Star Wars is definitely fantasy tho.
You’re right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, “if the characters and plots don’t need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?”