Is there any Sci-Fi in Star Trek?

[yousirname]

I just watched "The Wire" and at the end, Garak lends Bashir a Cardassian novel set in the future, depicting a war between the Cardassians and the Klingons. So I guess at least the Cardassians have some form of SF. Seems reasonable to suppose other groups would, too.

I imagine the Federation take on SF would be the more rarified thought-experiment variety. Not necessarily anything to do with advances in technology but more the ideas underlying them.

 

[CaptainDave1701]

Yes...
We do not have replicators, transporters and warp drive....yet.
We have something similar to a phaser by way of laser light. All in all Trek is still Sci-Fi I would say. All good fun too.

 

[Metryq]

We have something similar to a phaser by way of laser light.

By this analogy, a slingshot is just like a firearm because both launch a projectile. One uses a leather strap; the other a chemical explosive. "Similar."

The only phaser-like function we've seen from lasers is burning/cutting. Lasers do not stun or "disintegrate" (whatever that function really is). If Active Denial could be miniaturized, that might serve as a wireless stun gun.

 

[CaptainDave1701]

We have something similar to a phaser by way of laser light.

By this analogy, a slingshot is just like a firearm because both launch a projectile. One uses a leather strap; the other a chemical explosive. "Similar."

The only phaser-like function we've seen from lasers is burning/cutting. Lasers do not stun or "disintegrate" (whatever that function really is). If Active Denial could be miniaturized, that might serve as a wireless stun gun.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

I could see there being a PSA/Biopic recreating Pike's visit to Talos IV, but most of the happenings would be over dramatized and made gritty looking to give space travelers a real reason to stay away.

 

[yousirname]

The death penalty's not enough?

 

[CaptainMurdock]

The death penalty's not enough?

Making something scarier than it actually was WITH confirmation of the death penalty will keep hands off the stove for sure.