All right. Switching gears to fiction-writing, after some tedious administrivia this afternoon, carried forward from yesterday's ridiculous 3-hour meeting & debrief.
What is your LEAST favourite sci-fi trope? Bonus points if it's something that gets done to death on #StarTrek!
My least favorite sci-fi is when it is really a thinly veiled cowboy story, or colonial suppress and exterminate the natives tale, or any sort of pew pew shoot em up, and then ending with a celebration of human exceptionalism.
YES. This comes close to my personal most-loathed trope: the monocultural alien planet.
Big ol' world!
But at tops, there are only two warring groups upon it, or one slave and one master class. Ridiculous. Any advanced species we meet should be teeming with subcultures, as ours is.
Any self-congratulatory human exceptionalism in the face of such "unwashed masses" on alien worlds is another big yawn from me, too.