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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It's like Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought setting, where this was explicitly the whole point (escaping the Slow Zone not only makes FTL possible but psychic powers and magic raygun tech and God knows what else)
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See also ZPMs in Stargate, especially Atlantis. Magically, effectively limitless draw power sources are keys to it all. Having to have a Dyson spheres in each system to power your gates would be pricey!
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yes but they _tell you the mechanism for how it works_ and then still do things with it outside that!
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just don't do the "tell you how it works" step!
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