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ST:TOS and ST:TNG era seemed to deal with some hard sci-fi ideas. Nothing I've watched in the last 20 years seemed hard sci-fi. Most of them seem to be "how can
by nox101 2y ago
ST:TOS and ST:TNG era seemed to deal with some hard sci-fi ideas. Nothing I've watched in the last 20 years seemed hard sci-fi. Most of them seem to be "how can we work some action sequence into this story". Admittedly I haven't watched them all and I'm sure there are moments of hard sci-fi but my impression is it's devolved into space opera.
- WalterBright 2y ago"Primer" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384 "The Man from Earth" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683
- nox101 2y agosorry I meant episodes of modern star trek. there are plenty of hard sci-fi movies. those two are great. I'd add "Her" and "Ex Machina"
- 7thaccount 2y agoI really enjoyed both
- krapp 2y agoStar Trek was always meant to be space opera, but yes... ironically TOS, considered the campy black sheep of the franchise now, is the one series that at least attempted to be harder than others would, with input from actual engineers and science fiction writers of the time. The episode with the introduction of the Romulan cloaking device, for instance, hinged on the actual laws of thermodynamics (a perfect cloak is impossible - it must be radiating something somewhere.) In modern Trek, they'd just something something subspace some bullshit. It helped that Gene Roddenberry was in the Navy and that Trek was basically The Cold War In Space which is actually more of an interesting dynamic to me than Starfleet being basically invincible and everything running on space magic.
- pyuser583 2y agoA lot of the campiness of the original series disappears when you watch it on a much smaller screen at a distance - which is how it was designed.
- defrost 2y agoLewis Carroll, writing as Charles Dodgson, in a review of a new university belfry tower described it as best viewed from such distance that perspective dwindled it to a point.