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I've always regarded Star Trek as science fantasy rather than science fiction.

Similarly, the difference between the football match you "watched", Mincey, and the ones that actually occurred.

I can to an extent understand the tongue-in-cheek: the original Star Trek could be camp, with low-budget sets, theatrical acting, and over-the-top costumes; the story-telling was light-hearted so that non-sci-fi fans could enjoy the ride; and sometimes futuristic concepts became absurd and comical.

The later Star Trek could be similar, but also grittier, with lines like: "What you call genocide, I call a day's work."

I can understand where you're coming from. I once watched a game of football, where twenty-two adult men voluntarily entered a rectangular field and spent ninety minutes running around in small groups after a ball, occasionally kicking it away from themselves and then chasing it again, unable to pick it up, despite their having hands, with others paying money to watch the whole thing. I was sure at one point that they were doing all this to confuse me.

Have you actually watched much Star Trek?

My contribution to this thread is my hand in Leonard Nimoy's bronze casting - the only place you can do this on earth is in a small town called Vulcan in southern Alberta. 

I watched at least 10 full games and maybe over 80% of the re-caps - between that, gardening, good TV and all the Pokémon events this month, I find I haven't read a book in almost two months!

Spent the last two days catching up on farm bookwork and giving the house a deep clean for company this coming weekend, so I don't know if I will miss soccer in my life. 

I think my next obsession will be getting to the city to see the Odyssey and then getting lost on Wikipedia afterwards LOL 

Hope you enjoy your proper football Tarqs