Re: Re: Holy Cow! Holy Cow! (Star Trek SPOILER ALERT!)
I think it's too much--far, far too much--to expect accurate science in Star Trek. The basic premise of the entire show ignores relativity. From the first frame onward, it's fantasy. When the characters start talking technically, the writers put "insert technobabble here," and someone else later strings together some techie sounding words based on the fantasy universe.
We don't typically expect to encounter fiction in a science textbook, do we? Why then do we expect the science to be vetted in a work of fiction?