Re: (ReacTor) Five Works of SF That Undermine Their Own Thesis

On Sun, 18 May 2025 21:28:04 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:19:48 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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Indeed, military spaceships in SF are often modeled on naval vessels
and their terminology and their traditions.

>
Star Trek makes that point explicitly in one of the series where they
show in the opening credits several of the ships called "Enterprise"
with the first being HMS Enterprise from the beginning of the 18th
century.

/Star Trek: First Contact/ shows a display case with models of the
various ships called "Enterprise". This is perhaps 2/3 of the way
through the film.

Obviously it was powered by sails not dilithium.

A lot of the models were of ships not powered by dilithium. One, the
space shuttle, IIRC, never actually flew but popular demand was such
that the prototype got the name.

Never underestimate the power of Trekkies.
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