Neither franchise is about the tech, though. Its just a thing in the story to get our heroes from place to place and shoot at things when they get there. Which is why Trek is till just raygun, space ship and force field no matter what prefix they add or Century they set it in.
I wish the writers had put as much thought into the tech as those fans have.
I wish they could get hired on and try to work inside the constraints of a production.I wish the writers had put as much thought into the tech as those fans have.
In shows. As in part of the writing team.
Okay, Michael Okuda, Rick Sternbach, Herman Zimmerman, and Doug Drexler weren't writers but they were certainly working on the show.
Non-Canon. If writer X choses to ignore Chapter 10 of the Tech manual they do. I recall an intro to one the Okuda/Sternbach books pretty said they were guidelines rather than hard fast rules.
Yes, but I want them in the writers room and adding the technical flavor.
Roddenberry never wanted Star Trek to be about the technology, indeed it was even stated in the TOS Writer's Guide the characters weren't to discuss the technology anymore than a cowboy would discuss his gun or his horse in a western. The fact the technology became so front and center in the 90s to the point there are entire episodes with a technical based plot is actually against "Gene's Vision" that some fans claim they care about.
That doesn't mean it's never discussed, it means it's discussed when there's a point. A cowboy would say a lot about his horse if it was sick, or discuss his gun when explaining why he needs a rifle instead.
Yes, but he would not spend twenty minutes discussing the mechanics of how his gun works or dwelling on his horse's digestive tract.
The vision only matters when applied to newer Trek.
Probably in the vaguest of terms.
Easier done in literature.
Tolkien being a perfect example.
The depiction of Native Americans would be about the same.
