Re: Hard Sci-fi?

Michael Ash schrieb:

> I don't think that mysterious happenings and widespread belief in
religion 
> should be marks against a work of science fiction. Quite the contrary: 
> they're marks of realism and believability. The cold, sterile Star Trek 
> future where everyone is an athiest and nothing ever occurs which cannot

> be explained in four ten-minute segments is, I think, just as
unrealistic 
> as their treatment of various physical laws.

Especially as quite a lot of Star Treks explainations are on the level 
of the ancient view of the world. They only replace the concept of gods 
with de facto or actual omnipotent beings, but their ways of interaction 
and reaction are quite similar to those of the greek heroes.

Robert