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It deals with technology and its repercussions, is using the future and technological advancement to examine human behaviour.
There's not so many laser sword battles.
That's just sci-fi. Star Wars is a fantasy set in space
That's a decent definition of SF, but "hard" SF means that the technology, science, and logic are accurate based on our understanding of those things. Star Trek doesn't really worry about those things, which is fine, but it's not hard SF.
Hard sci-fi: The Expanse, Project Hail Mary; no FTL travel, and physics works mostly as we understand it.
Science Fantasy: Star Wars; space wizards.
Star Trek is neither of these.