Although
Star Trek:
The Original Series was prematurely cancelled after only three seasons, the
Star Trek media franchise has become vaster than any prose sf future history series and has familiarized TV and cinema audiences with dramatic scenes set on the bridges of faster than light interstellar spaceships. We reflect on this
Star Trek-prose sf parallelism once again as we reread Poul Anderson's accounts of the starships,
Benjamin Franklin and
Europa, in his
After Doomsday: infinitesimally briefer but also infinitely better than
Star Trek.
See also:
On The Bridge
Star Ways
Star Trek ought to serve as a introduction to prose sf rather than as a phenomenon per se. However, people out there are going to continue to have tastes that differ from yours or mine. May we all flourish.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The problem with most TV/filmed "SF" is how shallow, thin, trite and absurd most of that stuff is. And I've seen precious little real science in such shows. That's why I have such a poor opinion of STAR TREK (better called STAR DRECK) and STAR WARS (more rightly called STAR BLAHS).
Ad astra! Sean
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