"You should be calling it science FANTASY" Okay bitch then literally every single fucking thing they printed in "science fiction" magazines in the first half of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" in the '30s was "actually science FANTASY" It all had swords and magic and shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and
I used to be one of those Science Fiction vs Science Fantasy guys. Honestly it only works if your familiarity with the genre is limited. Once you take in the breadth of it, there's no clear place to draw the line, and the distinction is worthless.
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Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and
There was a time, I think, when American media tried to draw a hard line. You'd have, like, Ben Bova and Asimov on one side, and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry on the other. Mostly that was from about the 1970s through the 1990s, as far as I can tell.
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Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and
The issue is really about whether the writers are interested in primarily the aesthetics or primarily the legit dynamics that can’t be “ported” elsewhere, between “hard” and “soft” sf. This is a highly subjective assessment.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @keeltyc and
Eh. It uses Newtonian physics and is pretty dedicated to not being Aggressively Wrong and at least finding ways to be Interestingly Wrong Like, the fact that they explain G-forces not killing people and Trek and Wars never get into it at all makes a difference
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein and
"Inertial dampeners" are one of the single most impossible things in Star Trek -- the most basic foundation of general relativity is inertia is a fundamental property of matter that cannot be "dampened" -- but they get a one-line mention so the story can just move forward
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Can move forward without taking several weeks or months to accelerate and decelerate while moving at impulse to protect their crew and equipment from dangerous G-forces
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
(Only if you insist on carrying out a franchise for 75 years)
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