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Author: Unknown20Troper

Dec 9th 2008 at 6:24:35 PM

''So this trope comes out as a way of saving the story. Approaches: ''

*[[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Grow a sense of scale]] and rewrite the story so that it takes place over shorter distances. Or expand the timescales and enhance the nature of the characters so that the expanses involved don't really concern them at all. Then explore the logical consequences of all of that and weave it into the narritive where appropriate.

And what you're talking about here is rarely calling Science outright wrong, because it's shown as [[ScienceMarchesOn Science marching on]] into places we just don't know about yet. If warp drive was discovered when an angel descended unto Nasa and handed them a spaceship that runs on prayers and Goat blood and strikes dead any mortal who dares seek to examine and understand itsinner workings... then the author may be saying that they think poorly of science. If a team of PHDs spent years smashing particles into each other, and reasoned out that space could do some downright freaky stuff if you charge a flux capacitor with 1.21 Gigawatts and get it up to 88... not so much.