I’ve always believed that the best sci-fi is primarily about humanity. (At least this is what I tell my wife, who hates all things sci-fi. She doesn’t buy it.)

One of the reasons I love the Star Trek franchise is that it’s not all about explosions, laser beams and creative ways to use antimatter. It’s about, to paraphrase/steal from Thompson, seeing what happens to humanity after we change the physics in the sim.

What if we could travel faster than light? How does that change humanity? What if we could use matter and energy interchangeably (the transporter)? How does that change how we relate to one another?

So yeah, I’ve been trying and failing to convince Lauren of all of this. It’s a logically sound argument – if you like all these chick flicks about human interaction, you’ll really dig “The Wrath of Khan.”