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Not to mention the fact that the Empires relatively primitive "Lasers" were once sort of referenced in the show, A ship attacked the Enterprise with Lasers on board, much like the ones from Star Wars... and worfs exact words were "Lasers! That wouldn't even penetrate our navigation deflector".
Despite being called turbolasers, SW weapons are clearly not lasers. They are visible, and propagate slower than light. This clearly precludes them being lasers.
If you allow expanded universe sources for Star Wars (which some people do and others don't in this kind of debate) they explain that SW beam weapons are plasma/particle beam weapons, and not lasers.
Then again, that doesn't fit what we see in the movies either (none of the beams are affected by gravity).