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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: So, What Games Are You Looking Forward To? (2025 Ed)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:37:50 -0800
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On 2/12/2025 12:31 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 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.)
> 
Well, I don't know the current "state" of Star Trek.  The last Trek show 
I watched was season 2 of 'Orville'.  Everything is on streaming now and 
I don't do streaming.

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