<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2> "Hard" Science Fiction is a term that reffers to Science Fiction that
<BR>is mostly technology or science-driven instead of character or plot-driven.
<BR>Usually the characters are only incidental. And usually the science and
<BR>technology actually make sense, which is why Voyager is not Hard SF -- it's
<BR>just *bad* SF. It tries to be character and plot driven and fails utterly due
<BR>to weak characters and weak plots, ends up relying on treknobbable to solve
<BR>all their problems but do *that* badly as well. (Oh, and please don't assume
<BR>all Trek is this bad -- Voyager is just plain terrible, but most of the other
<BR>three series, the movies, and many of the novels and comics are *really*
<BR>good...)
<BR> By the way, there were no "rubber" spaceships involved in the episode
<BR>you saw -- all the VFX were computer generated. :-)</FONT></HTML>