Space Opera and The Final Frontier

Crews of people exploring the reaches of space. Seeing worlds out and beyond. The struggles that come with these travels and the exciting otherworldly adventures are what this subset of Sci-Fi is all about. A lot of people probably grew up with this genre in some form or another. Personally, I had been shown the Star Wars movies as a child. This genre opens up so many possibilities as it doesn't have to be grounded in our reality at all. However in the case of The Stars My Destination and in the Star Trek series Earth is very much a real place and is the reason for humans being a species in their stories. We don't know much about what's out there beyond Earth in terms of life and what we can explore. Stories of The Final Frontier journey into possible answers to these questions and often invent the technology that would be needed to do so. There were many things from Star Trek that once did not exist that are slowly being developed today. We wonder what is really within the realm of possibility and over time science proves there is still so much we have yet to achieve.