Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html
>
> If you can still tell the story without the technology, it's not SF.

When he talks about scripts containing "tech the tech", I think this could be
called literary greebling.  Greebles do not detract from an object's main role
in a scene unless the entire substance of the object are the greebles
themselves*.  If a SF story has nothing more than "literary greebles" setting a
certain style, then I agree, it's less of "true SF" and more of conventional
story telling in a relatively arbitrary setting.

*in some application other than a greebling demonstration.

Charles

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