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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 294368" data-attributes="member: 172">Why would that be? AFAIAC, fantasy is inherently more unbounded than SF. That is why psionics is not out of place in fantasy (and futher, why it in fact fits better in fantasy than in SF.) So trust me, my view on this is perfectly self consistent.Rygel's discussion made it worse, becane it drew attention to the fact that shrinking as a technology is nonsensical. They would have been better off without the discussion, then the show could have moved on and the viewers can say "oh yeah, plot device." But that discussion really made it stand out like a turd in a punch bowl.For me the big problem with that part is that it really broke the fifth wall for me, because in essence, Rigel was talking to the "intelligent viewers in the audience" via Shizoku. I could almost see the authors saying:"y'know, there are going to be fans out there who balk at this." "We'll, will technobable it away.""No, no, we can't do that. That's why half our fans hate star trek.""Okay, how about if we chastise our fans for overanalyzing the show instead!""Yeah, that's the ticket."Only half kidding.That they are good stories is debatable. Braga just loves his esoteric surreal little stories and doesn't like things like plausability getting in the way. He should have tried his hand at the outer limits, which has a format more accomodating to such strangeness, instead of running the ST franchise into the ground.</blockquote>

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