Yeah but besides that, it's all hard science. There's breeding between genetically disconnected species, making new technologies by "reversing the polarity" of things, teleporting matter/life thousands of miles without any technology to rebuild matter on the other end, and inconsistently defining warp speeds where warp 10 is "infinite" velocity and causes you to devolve (into a salamander thing... which isn't a part of human ancestry) but also some ships have gone over warp 10 just casually traveling in the original series. That's some hard science there.