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Some would consider this one of the AcceptableBreaksFromReality. If the characters didn't travel through space at [[FasterThanLightTravel thousands of times the speed of light]], it wouldn't be very interesting, unless the focus was just the spaceship itself. Either you'd have to make the ship incredibly powerful to max out TimeDilation and shorten the time spent from the characters' perspective, put the characters into some kind of [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] (and just fast forward through their journeys), or even have entire [[GenerationShip generations of characters that would live and die on the ship]] before they even reached a known extrasolar planet (meaning the audience would say TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter or treat the new generations as a ReplacementScrappy), and so on... If Franchise/StarTrek, for example, was realistically scaled, it'd be a ''lot'' less interesting.[[hottip:Unless...:the story was ''about'' the journey, and ''about'' generations of characters living on a spaceship. That has been done before, and well. But it's a different type of story than "Strange New Worlds".]]

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Some would consider this one of the AcceptableBreaksFromReality. If the characters didn't travel through space at [[FasterThanLightTravel thousands of times the speed of light]], it wouldn't be very interesting, unless the focus was just the spaceship itself. Either you'd have to make the ship incredibly powerful to max out TimeDilation and shorten the time spent from the characters' perspective, put the characters into some kind of [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] (and just fast forward through their journeys), or even have entire [[GenerationShip generations of characters that would live and die on the ship]] before they even reached a known extrasolar planet (meaning the audience would say TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter or treat the new generations as a ReplacementScrappy), and so on... If Franchise/StarTrek, for example, was realistically scaled, it'd be a ''lot'' less interesting.[[hottip:Unless...:the story was ''about'' the journey, and ''about'' generations of characters living on a spaceship. That has been done before, and well. But it's a different type of story than "Strange New Worlds".]][[hottip:*:It's actually even been done in Star Trek; in the original series episode "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" the strange new world the Enterprise visits is just such a ship.]]

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