Science Fiction

Star Trek is socialism in space.

• One world government.
• A federation of planets where every one plays by the same rules.
• There is no mention of who is paying for those big shiny ships or where the resources come from.
• Any individual planets that do not fall in to line, Romulus for example, get blown up.
• The only legally armed ships and people work for the Federation.
  

Star Wars is a space opera.

• Ewocks suck!! This has nothing to do with my point, but it needs to be in as many places on the net as possible.
• Good is good and evil is evil for the most part.
• Trettery is the only way to succeed in the class system.
  

Serenity is a western with spaceships.

• Frontier living.
• Outlaws living on the cusp of society successfully.
• Different levels of technology.
• There is a center ring of planets that are all cityfied (back east and Europe)
• There was a civil war where the out landing states planets were rebelling against the North center ring of planets in order to pursue their way of life separately.
  
• The lead character carried a revolver.
  

The Alien series is a horror movie in space.

• This one is so obvious it needs no bullets. Here are some generic bullets just to fill in the space. I'm going to number them because I never use ordered lists.
  

1. isolation
2. danger
3. hope
4. death
5. more danger
   
6. salvation