http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html

This pretty much says why I consider science fiction to only be that where 
you couldn't write the story without the technology. Could Star Trek be 
written as a western or a Spanish Armada kind of story? Yes. Could 
Ringworld? Not hardly.

If you can still tell the story without the technology, it's not SF. Oddly 
enough, most of the original Star Trek series that people liked the best 
(say, the one with the Horta) were ones where you couldn't take out the tech 
and tell the same story.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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