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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:43:59 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:


>I have no problem calling Star Wars 'Science Fantasy'.  But Star Trek is 
>science fiction.  It isn't _hard_ SF, as it includes social changes but 
>SF has a long tradition of that as well.  (And Doc Smith had no real 
>world science to base any of the psi based aspects of Lensmen upon even 
>at the time he wrote those books.)

I'd agree with you on classic Star Trek, but modern Star Trek is a
different beast. It's not anything about modern science or examining
how it would affect social changes anymore. It's soap opera in space
set against a background that mirrors current events. It's about the
drama and thus increasingly falls beneath the 'space opera' umbrella.

(That said, on -increasingly rare- occassion Star Trek does surprise
by being a bit deeper than usual... but so too does Star Wars
sometimes, albeit never in the main-line movies.)