Homelanding and Cause and Effect

In the short story Homelanding, a human describes what earth is like to another species. The sci fi elements found in this piece include an alien life form and traveling to a different world. In the episode of star trek the next generation, titled Cause and Effect, The crew of a space ship are trapped in a never ending time loop. The sci fi elements in the episode include space travel, alien life forms, and time travel. The reason that these two pieces may be a good intro to sci fi is that they contain many elements of science fiction, not just one. Together they outline what we will be studying in this class. These two pieces hold up to my definition of sci fi because of the use of aliens, time travel, and space voyages. I felt that these two pieces where a decent user of time, but the star trek episode caused some annoyance with the repeating of the same day over and over.