Writing original SF concept, an impossibility?

For once, I'd like to see the Enterprise come to a screeching halt because the OS system locked up, and no one can find the IT guy, because he's somewhere sleeping off his latest hangover. Now that would be realism, buddy.
P.S. A bicycle works on the principle of the flux capacitor. Same as time machines.

 

Star Trek is about the Political issues. Always has been! Back when we were in the Haight-Ashbury, Shatner was being written to fight "Space-Hippies". Those people with the Flowers on thier faces, and playing FOLK music?
You remember that one.
I'm more into the Physics type Sci-Fi genre. What IS possible. What have we already discovered? Quarks, Gluons, Protons, Nutrinos? What if those can be manipulated to serve science? Wanna kill a certain disease? Program a Proton.
The imagination is limitless.

 

Star Trek is damn poliltical: human beings are perfect, emotionally sophisticated and rational, and all other races are describable by a single characteristic and need humans to sort out their problems for them, and if they don't realise this they're just stupid. But we also have the Prime Directive, which means we can choose to not meddle in people's affairs when we don't want to.

Sound like a certain country's foreign policy to anyone?

 

Someone posted about bring ethics and morals back to SciFi (to lazy today to actually go back and quote them).

I'm reading a book right now by Robert J. Sawyer called Calculating God about two alien civilizations landing on earth and trying to convert humanity to theists using palentology. It's interesting.

I like reading Hard Scifi, but hate writing it, i dont hve a degree in astrophyisics and i'm not about to start down that path today.

The reason i like Scifi so much is that you do ANYTHING!

101 plots?

I believe it.

Just like every sitcom is like every sitcom.

I dont want to take an old idea, brush off the dust and stamp my name on it.

I want to say something new, i want a person to read it and think "Holy Shit, i never thought of that..."

Not "He's kinda like Arthur C. Clark with a mix of Harry Turtledove, not too bad..."

When i stop and think about it though, the great books were not written to be the great books.

They just turned out that way.

I should just relax and let it flow...

(whoever was posting about 1984 hit the nail on the head though.)