Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale

This article made me laugh, discussing how TV SF often gets science stuff wildly inaccurate...

"Most people can't get their minds around just how big the universe is. So it should come as no surprise that most Speculative Fiction writers can't either. This is chiefly true of creators of TV, film, and video game SF. Creators of written science fiction can be positively obsessive about accuracy."

My favourite example? 

"In Star Trek The Original Series, the Enterprise was frequently "the only ship in the quadrant", despite the fact that there are, by definition, only four quadrants in the entire galaxy. "