[Wingy]

Hey Mr. Beale. I've got an idea. Why don't you write a script, line up some financing, assemble a cast, and shoot a MOVIE! A movie we can all love, and shout out from the rooftops how your movie saved sci-fi from such cruddy films as Star Wars. Make sure that your movie has plenty of impenetrable "ideas" and such creativity that we are all made smarter simply by watching your movie. A movie that makes us all think warm and fuzzy thoughts whenever we think of "sci-fi".

Or not.

You see Mr. Beale, you are not the arbiter of "good sci-fi", at least in my eyes, so you may want to keep that in mind the next time you want to judge all things through your blurry lens of what is "good" or not.

[dr_lew]

Couldn’t “science fiction” include the fictional treatments of developments in the history of science ? You know, Newton at Cambridge ... Heisenberg and Bohr at Göttingen ... that sort of thing. Of course, you could embellish such stories with fantastical elements, as has been done more than once with Mark Twain, as in e.g. STTNG.

You could go nuts with Galileo! In fact, that’s my fantasy ... my Galileo movie.