Star Trek deals with lots of different technologies and their potential impacts on human behaviour; some people don’t want to use the transporter or develop phobias from it, the replicators eradicate hunger and poverty (at least on earth) so society evolves to be more egalitarian, what if we could travel faster than light, etc etc.
Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies’ potential impact on humanity, which is the point of harder sci fi.
Seems why? For me it doesn’t seem so, and it likely won’t, but maybe you can add some detail.
I dunno, for me Door Into Summer is harder sci-fi, but Foundation is harder sci-fi too, and Starship Troopers is harder sci-fi, and Dune is harder sci-fi as well, and Citizen of the Galaxy is harder sci-fi, and one can go on. Pilot Pirx is very hard sci-fi, and many other things by Lem.
Star Trek is not more similar to those than Star Wars.
Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies’ potential impact on humanity
Mockery is not an argument in itself and would somewhat hurt your main argument if such were made.
Seems like you’re making a a bad faith argument.
Star Trek deals with lots of different technologies and their potential impacts on human behaviour; some people don’t want to use the transporter or develop phobias from it, the replicators eradicate hunger and poverty (at least on earth) so society evolves to be more egalitarian, what if we could travel faster than light, etc etc.
Pew pew lasers and swords and magic is hardly technologies’ potential impact on humanity, which is the point of harder sci fi.
Seems why? For me it doesn’t seem so, and it likely won’t, but maybe you can add some detail.
I dunno, for me Door Into Summer is harder sci-fi, but Foundation is harder sci-fi too, and Starship Troopers is harder sci-fi, and Dune is harder sci-fi as well, and Citizen of the Galaxy is harder sci-fi, and one can go on. Pilot Pirx is very hard sci-fi, and many other things by Lem.
Star Trek is not more similar to those than Star Wars.
Mockery is not an argument in itself and would somewhat hurt your main argument if such were made.
Dune has drugs that give people magic powers. Foundation has magic mind powers.
That’s no different than Vulcan mind powers.
Dune and foundation aren’t more sci-fi than Trek.