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One book I read on becoming an author said to not mention Star Trek if you wanted to write more serious stories.
Relatives have asked me about the science in Trek. I point out that it appears they write the story/episode and then ask the sceince people about it.
One thing that irritated me is that show uses time travelled to the destination as a plot device, the distance isn't covered in the same amount of time with the same type of ship, i.e. no internal consistency.
That 'internal consistency' is what I use to accept or not accept various propulsion methods or devices a SF story uses. If the author comes up with a reasonable explnation of why it works, and sticks to it, I'll accept FTL ships in a story.
i.e. I'll accept Dylithium crystals before I'll accept 'well, it just does'.
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