MST3K 318: Star Force: Fugitive Alien II

Continuing my latest indulgence of watching the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes featuring movies I'm tempted to call "Star Wars ripoffs," I've reached the sequel to "Fugitive Alien." Along with the flights through space and gunning down enemy star fighters from within suspiciously familiar gun turrets, the episode does open with a "host segment" in which Tom Servo and Crow are trying to work out what makes a puppet a puppet and not just somebody in a big costume, and Yoda happens to get mentioned. Before, I had commented that somewhere behind the odd dubbing and compressed editing, I was tempted to call the story of fugitive alien Ken, not trusted by the Earth crew he had fallen in with and hunted by his own girlfriend, sort of interesting. This time around, all of that is pretty much gone from "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II". That does seem to encourage paying more attention to the "riffs."
( 'Where have I seen this before?' )

( 'Oh, I don't know... long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away?' )

I suppose there's only one more Mystery Science Theater episode I really feel like identifying as a blatant Star Wars ripoff... but by all opinions, it's a dilly.