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Old 09-05-2014, 06:36 AM   #6
Fred Brackin
 
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Default Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera

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Originally Posted by Agemegos View Post
Retrotech is right out. What about safetech? My feeling is that it need not be a deal-breaker, but that there would have to be something to make the result new space opera rather than rationalised old space opera. Are there examples in the literature?
Star Trek: TNG. It's an example of what I call NotSafeTech because whenever one of the SafeTech items comes up it goes Horribly Wrong.

Banning some item because of a rational assessment of risks wouldn't make a place SafeTech.
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