Yeah, I guess that recent Star Trek movie is similar to the original trilogy of Star Wars. Still, I think that it has more in common with Muppet Babies than anything else. *rolls eyes in disgust*
That's why I think that Forstchen hit the technological sweet spot in The Lost Regiment by putting a Civil War era infantry regiment in medieval Russia. The soldiers had the know-how to make a smoothbore musket and cannons, and the Russians had the tools necessary to make the tools necessary to manufacture them.
I hear that there were accordions involved.
William R. Forstchen had a somewhat similar premise in his Lost Regiment series.