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0 pointsLargoLasskhyfv5y ago0 comments

Ahem. Sorry Trekkies, but NO! Star Trek is different how exactly? Domestic problems, old enemies longing for revenge, Tech the tech with the tech in order to tech the tech in the tech tech...

For me it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindenstra%C3%9Fe in space, or 'Raumschiff Entenscheiss' (Spaceship Duck Shit because Enterprise rhymes with Entenscheiss)

Doesn't matter which tv-series or theatrical movie, always the same, quack quack, tech the tech the with the tech to tech the tech tech bla bla bla.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAUIHBAxbXY courtesy of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinnlos_im_Weltraum

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sandworm1015y ago

Ok, the very very simple version: Science fiction is set in the future. Star Trek is deliberately set in the future. Star Wars is deliberately set in the past ("A long time ago") and therefore is something other than science fiction.

usrusr5y ago

Then 20000 Leagues Under The Sea is not science fiction? (the setting was contemporary art the time of writing)

sandworm1015y ago

Future technology. When they set foot on the nautilus they set foot into a possible future. 20,000 poses the question of what might happen should that sort of technology be developed. It was very predictive of the power that such technology would place on a single man. Nemo is latin for "no man", telling us that no man should have such power.

samatman5y ago

I don't think you'll get very far classifying space opera as opposed to science fiction, rather than a variety of it.

It's a taxonomy which is cladistically nonsensical, which you can prove to yourself by browsing the Hugo and Nebula awards.

LargoLasskhyfvOP5y ago

What about time travel, or alternate history? Is that fantasy?

edit: If you count time travel as fantasy, please do so for any SF which features FTL :-)

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0 pointsLargoLasskhyfv5y ago0 comments

Ahem. Sorry Trekkies, but NO! Star Trek is different how exactly? Domestic problems, old enemies longing for revenge, Tech the tech with the tech in order to tech the tech in the tech tech...

For me it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindenstra%C3%9Fe in space, or 'Raumschiff Entenscheiss' (Spaceship Duck Shit because Enterprise rhymes with Entenscheiss)

Doesn't matter which tv-series or theatrical movie, always the same, quack quack, tech the tech the with the tech to tech the tech tech bla bla bla.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAUIHBAxbXY courtesy of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinnlos_im_Weltraum

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sandworm1015y ago

usrusr5y ago

Then 20000 Leagues Under The Sea is not science fiction? (the setting was contemporary art the time of writing)

sandworm1015y ago

samatman5y ago

I don't think you'll get very far classifying space opera as opposed to science fiction, rather than a variety of it.

It's a taxonomy which is cladistically nonsensical, which you can prove to yourself by browsing the Hugo and Nebula awards.

LargoLasskhyfvOP5y ago

What about time travel, or alternate history? Is that fantasy?

edit: If you count time travel as fantasy, please do so for any SF which features FTL :-)

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