Re: Hard Sci-fi?

Robert Martinu wrote:

> 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.

heh.  In fact, they've bumped into an actual Greek god at one point.

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