How does science fiction/horror author create an alternate reality as a way of exploring issues of his own day and time? How does science...

I think we can
best understand how to answer this question if we understand what "" is. For example,
in Star Trek: Enterprise , the crew is living hundreds of years in the
future compared to us. However, in the third season, Captain Archer was constantly tempted to
violate his values in order to obtain information about an alien race known as the Xindi. The
Xindi had attacked earth without cause and now Archer had to find and stop them. At the time,
the US had recently been attacked and our president was calling for a second invasion. Anyone
that made that connection between America and...