"Hard" SF

[YMH@aol.com]

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