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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And for a show like Star Trek the nonsense universe-breaking ability of the transporter to just take things apart at the atomic level and rebuild them arbitrarily is half the fun What would Star Trek fandom even be without the Tuvix Debate
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now i want a series that's exactly like star trek except with a fantasy palette swap they're on a big-ass schooner in space, o'brien operates the teleportation circles, instead of shields they have wards there's still a big dilithium crystal at the heart of it all though
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Though that would be a cool concept for a setting
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There's a planet with a society culturally and technologically modeled after the 19th century anglosphere in one of the seasons of friends at the table (counter/weight) that's nonetheless part of the broader spacefaring society.
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You're kinda making me want to reread "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
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(Radio transmitters COULD have been developed far earlier in world history, fwiw, as ryan north discusses in his book “how to invent everything,” which is a semi-whimsical instruction manual for developing modern civilization for a stranded time traveler)
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He suggests and gives instructions for developing radio to transmit the time from a central location, and thus allow precise location determinations and thus global navigation. Radio + landbound pendulums are way easier than complicated mechanical watches
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