On not sweating the science, John Scalzi points out:

... even movies with bad science can still inspire the science-minded. Aside from James Kirk, the main characters in Star Trek are a science officer, a linguist, a mathematical wiz kid, a doctor, an engineer and a starship pilot who's good at fencing. Which is to say they're all geeks. If you think real world geeks don't look at that, say I want to live there, and then work to make it happen, you've not been paying attention to all the technical progress of the last few decades.

Even if the science is wrong, the science fiction can still be great fun. Just look at Richard Garfinkel’s Celestial Matters, which is hard sf where the science is Aristotelian.