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[RJDiogenes]

That's true-- even high-class SF movies like Forbidden Planet have Horror elements. Pretty much the only way to get pure Hard SF is to go to the literature.

Really? I never considered Forbidden Planet to be horror. If that's the case, then The Day The Earth Stood Still would be horror as well. Hm. I guess I don't consider it horror, but certainly the audiences of the day would. I'm not sure pure SF is possible, but something positive would be nice. It's what attracted me to Star Trek. Surely there's more than that in the positive message sci-fi genre.

Forbidden Planet isn't Horror, but it has elements of Horror; i.e. the giant invisible monster, as Starkers mentioned. The Day The Earth Stood Still is pretty close to pure SF, though.

I'm with you on a return to adult Space Opera, though. I'd love to see more (real) Trek or something like it. That's not likely, though, when adolescent garbage is what makes the big bucks.