Whether Star Trek or sci-fi in general, we're talking about fiction here. Any problem that true science can through at a plot, the writer can work around. I ju

Whether Star Trek or sci-fi in general, we're talking about fiction here. Any problem that true science can through at a plot, the writer can work around. I just finished re-reading 'The Forever War', and in that novel, the issue was resolved by two energy fields, at 5K and 10K in front of ships... and that was for sub-light travel. The time dilation was actually a major plot point, too... Or look at the Ringworld series. The original novel had so many scientific holes in it that he HAD to write a sequel to resolve all of them. It is the same here -- poke holes at the stories all you want. It will just inspire the writers to become more clever.