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A Science Fiction writer should never put beings into a story that are so far superior to men that we cannot understand their motives, we cannot overcome their will or we cannot meet them face to face in a fair fight. It is not interesting that there is a being out there who can simply step on us like an ant.
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I can't fully agree with this. You can have aliens who are so far advanced from us that we can't understand them, and can't defeat them. You're not going to defeat them, but who says you have to? There are other ways of dealing with a problem than my defeating the opponent. If you cannot understand the alien, perhaps you can get the alien to understand you. Perhaps the alien could squash you like an ant, but perhaps the alien might take notice and step somewhere else.
And the idea that Star Trek is not good science fiction is a matter of preference rather than a rule.