You are quite correct. "Space Opera Fantasy" is what Star Wars and Star Trek really are. Unfortunately there are a lot of meh space operas out there with an occasional but too few well crafted productions I can enjoy.

I love me some hard-science-fiction, preferably without magic devices or monsters with proper physics. I'm guessing that's what you're after too.

My top priority is finishing my /s/BittersweetSeeds hard sci-fi cautionary tale to share and get feedback before I fully illustrate and then finesse its storyboards to ultimately be published as a graphic novel, in hopes that along the way interest will pick up to make it a feature film. It's been 19 years thus far and I have years to go. When it's finally presentable as a first rough draft, SaidIt will be the first place I'll share it.