Re: So, What Games Are You Looking Forward To? (2025 Ed)

On 2/12/2025 12:31 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:43:59 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
 

I have no problem calling Star Wars 'Science Fantasy'.  But Star Trek is
science fiction.  It isn't _hard_ SF, as it includes social changes but
SF has a long tradition of that as well.  (And Doc Smith had no real
world science to base any of the psi based aspects of Lensmen upon even
at the time he wrote those books.)

 I'd agree with you on classic Star Trek, but modern Star Trek is a
different beast. It's not anything about modern science or examining
how it would affect social changes anymore. It's soap opera in space
set against a background that mirrors current events. It's about the
drama and thus increasingly falls beneath the 'space opera' umbrella.
 (That said, on -increasingly rare- occassion Star Trek does surprise
by being a bit deeper than usual... but so too does Star Wars
sometimes, albeit never in the main-line movies.)
 

Well, I don't know the current "state" of Star Trek.  The last Trek show I watched was season 2 of 'Orville'.  Everything is on streaming now and I don't do streaming.
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