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Re:Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy by laputan_machine on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:50AM (#37012568)
DS9's first episode has a space alien organism living inside a permanent wormhole and it speaks to you through mind visions, exists at all points in time and can read your mind, put you in your own memories, etc. That happens in the first episode, the whole Star Trek universe is full of absolute fantasy.

Q, anyone?

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Re:Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy by throwaway60707 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:40AM (#37013104)
> Q, anyone?

A robot with an advanced electromagnetic mind-control device...

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Re:Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy by XorNot on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:59AM (#37012662)
Technically DS9 never say they exist at all points in time. DS9 says that they don't experience linear time.

One way I thought you could interpret that is that the wormhole aliens in fact only exist when the wormhole is open - their existence is only in those blinks of reality that they perceive, and as a result to handle the universe they have a vast predictive ability that looks like future-knowledge.

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