This is an interview of a U.S. Naval War College research professor about how sci-fi has influenced military design and what Trek, Battlestar Galactica & Babylon 5, get right and wrong about military operations in space. It's a really fascinating article and well worth reading.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... ?page=full
My 2 cents are the following:
1) All of these shows are primarily focused on the stories they want to tell and the action, not so much about the logistics of running a fleet. If the shows spent say, 50% of the time describing the logistics, people would get bored and go watch the Housewives or something.
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This idea that Captain Kirk leaves on a five-year mission? We go to sea for six or nine months at a time, with continuous logistical support, and when we come back, the ships are pretty beaten up.
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So a universe of faster-than-light travel favors surprise attacks? It really, really does...
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But science fiction is the literature of "what if?"
