I have been thinking. I don’t think Star Trek is science fiction as in opposed to for example Arthur C. Clarke Odyssey books there was no science in Star Trek. Odyssey books had science we can understand, but in Star Trek it was just hand waved away and it was all Force Field category 4 or Warp Level 5.
One of the reason why I attempted my joke earlier. In 2001 Odyssey the monolith that taught apes to use tools came also 3 million years ago.