“Soft” Science Fiction and Technical Fantasy
The Ancient World in Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23664214 |
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| Authors | Otta Wenskus (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 449-466 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118741382.ch20 |
| OpenAlex | W2622305188 |
| ISBN | 9781118741382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
There is a huge difference between science fiction/technical fantasy on TV and in the cinema: there are far fewer classical references on the big screen than on the small, especially explicit verbal ones, and this has nothing to do with the narrative universes in question since this statement applies to the Star Trek series. The so called “technobabble” of Star Trek is aptly named and almost completely absent from Babylon 5, let alone Battlestar Galactica (BSG). Dr Who contains even less science (natural or otherwise) and might more accurately be termed “technical fantasy”, as might some or indeed most of Star Trek, while Ronald D. Moore, the author of BSG and Star Trek, aims at realism. This chapter also mentions the Sarah Connor Chronicles in spite of their relatively low impact factor, Firefly, because the question whether this show actually uses classical pretexts is moot, well worth discussing but not in a short overview.
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| Highly cited | No |
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