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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I've seen much serious theory and discussion of an FTL drive, its components and their overall operation, especially in books, and on Trek... but no similar discussion of how gravity generation works. Trek has avoided it like the plague.
But yes, there are a number of sci-fi movies and shows that just take for granted that FTL works: Just showing a complex-looking piece of machinery is enough to satisfy the audience (they should call that the "flux capacitor trope").
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Since the best Sci-fi is used as an analogy for society, I find the best stories are the ones that treat Tech such as FTL as everyday objects. Like driving a car, or using a cellphone and don't get bogged down in the details of how everything works. It just does...
I think in Trek artificial gravity is generated by force fields pushing down, much like there use of the inertia dampeners. Reading about pseudo-tech can be fun after the fact, most of the time it bogs down the story and is a huge red flag that the story will be resolved through technical brilliance, and not by the characters.