Star Trek is true scifi? I always considered it to be soft scifi due to it being more about social issues in space rather than the more hard scifi about the fictional science. At least the book of Project Hail Mary is closer to hard scifi than Star Trek as they spend a lot of time describing the science. The movie rightfully skips most of this tedium in favor of a beautiful spectacle.
replyThis is the first time I've heard of the idea of "true" scifi though.
Star Trek is largely fantasy.
replyIMO if "fantasy" tries to explain things as being technology, it's (soft) sci-fi. If it describes it as magic, then it's fantasy.
replyTechnobabble is just tech-sounding magic.
replyThey have different writing styles generally, but it is still pointless to call Star Trek a fantasy for the same reason why you wouldn't call Lord of the Rings a science fiction. If you have a spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with 5 being the middle then maybe Star Trek would be a 6 and Star Wars being more of a 5.
replyPersonally I'd classify Dune to be more of a fantasy than Star Trek just because of the style it is written in being very mystical and prophetic.