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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8783144" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm not sure that comment helps the understanding any.  While I disagree obviously with this hypothetical person from the 1920's about his gender stereotypes, the general point being made that if you are not focused on the science but have your focus on something else, that it might not be science fiction is a relevant critique.  George Lucas writes space opera that doesn't focus on technology and isn't in my opinion even in the science fiction genre.   LeGuin writes masterpieces of hard science fiction like The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.   One of my all time favorite authors, Bujold is somewhere in the middle, with some stories having science fiction as an incidental setting and others earnestly interested in the effects that technology might have on human life.  And I could pick out a modern writer to hit with a hard critique of what is going on in the genre right now, but I never set out to derail this thread because I didn't realize hateful people had tried to make discussion of hard and soft science fiction some sort of dog whistle for sexism and thereby revealed themselves to be part of the problem.  There might be an interesting discussion of why space opera like Dune and Star Wars has kind of ruined people's appetite for and appreciation of good science fiction or even their ability to define it, but I don't think we can have it hear (and this thread wouldn't be the right place for it anyway).  Let's just say that it's all speculative fiction and drop it.I wanted to like it more than I did, but ultimately in being true to the movies IMO it really limited its ability to be a good game for anything other than one-shots.   Ultimately I think the setting feels really thin to me compared to alternatives like Transhuman Space or even something like Battlestar Galactica.  BSG using a variant Alien rules?  Sign me up.  There would be your need for ship to ship combat.  It's sort of like how I wouldn't mind playing Dogs in the Vineyard, but I think I'd rather play it as Star Trek Away Team.</blockquote>

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