Peter DeLuise, Michael DeLuise and others in “Unfinished Business”

You realize this is not a real show.

You saying Wormhole X-Treme isn't real? All this is...?

It's not a real show. It's a fake show.

Did my agent know about this?

Am I getting paid real money?

Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.