by Nailah Weaver » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:05 pm
Warning, the judgement of the science comes form my background in Molecular Biology and the fact that the Star Trek writers are usually physics/astrophysics geeks and bother to at least come up with new words to explain weird physics shit. For Biology stuff they just punt and use existing words and concepts that they don't understand and it's blatantly lazy writing. They don't even TRY to extrapolate existing science, they just hear DNA and Growth Hormones and go to town and it sucks because there are plenty of interesting concepts to explore in Biology and Genetics and they constantly choose to do so in the lamest, laziest way possible.
Basically, when they do Physics they're writing science-fiction, for better or worse. When they do Biology they're writing garbage.