He was a chauvinist who wanted to harshly sever the ties between science fiction and fantasy (no more "planetary romances" and "space operas" with space swordfights and space castles and space princesses), even though that kind of shit is how the genre started
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i'm not even sure why they need to mention them at all they could just say that a special property of warp is that the people subjectively don't feel like they're moving, it's already made up!
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They already established that warp and impulse drive are different and that impulse drive is just a mundane set of engines that accelerate you by spraying out photons though (This is the problem with making your sci-fi too scientific, you keep having to add in new patches)
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Yeah, to be honest, inertial dampeners are probably almost definitely less realistic or feasible than future FTL travel or womehole or whatever BS engine method
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Sci-fi isn't so much that it is accurate to the current model of the universe, but at least it plays by its own rules.
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All fiction has to play by its own rules, though. Well, ALMOST all fiction. There's always "experimental."
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I figure once you have artificial gravity, getting around G loads while under acceleration is pretty trivial... just a matter of how strong a gravitational field you can generate to counteract the acceleration.
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