09-05-2014, 12:09 PM | #11 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
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09-05-2014, 12:14 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
Yes, but TNG isn't in my mind, new space opera either. Which is fine if you think it is, but you aren't adding anything to a GURPS treatment of new space opera by just telling me I'm wrong. In GURPS terms what does that mean, differently from what I wrote.
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09-05-2014, 12:23 PM | #13 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
One thing that links Star Trek TNG more closely to New Space Opera is the replicator and the way it is used to claim that the Federation is a "post-scarcity" society. It's the foundation The Culture was built on. Old Space Opera didn't have replicators or (pseudo) post scarcity economies.
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09-05-2014, 12:26 PM | #14 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
Can we get a definition from the OP of the origonal thread? I don't think we'll make much progress without a solid definition from that source.
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09-05-2014, 12:33 PM | #15 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
The OP was asking for a definition in the first place. There isn't one of course, so I just stuck with listing things that are more common now and less common then (in space opera prior to the New Wave).
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09-05-2014, 12:50 PM | #16 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
It sounds like new space opera is default UT by that definition.
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09-05-2014, 12:52 PM | #17 |
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09-05-2014, 01:14 PM | #18 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
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09-05-2014, 05:54 PM | #20 |
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Re: [Space] and [UT] for New Space Opera
Post scarcity can be seen in the background in some 40s and 50s Heinlein too. Beyond This Horizon for one example.
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