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Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy is any work in which the setting is deliberately made different from the real world. Science fiction is when those differences are due to the presence of advanced science and/or technology.
What about sci-fi that's literally only different from the real world because of fictional technology? That makes up a bulk of the kind of sci-fi I am into. Cyberpunk and the like.
Star Trek technically takes place in the actual universe. Is it fantasy because it's almost never on Earth?
The genre is usually divided into "soft" and "hard" fantasy.
Cyberpunk is generally considered hard fantasy, as is stuff like The Expanse or Interstellar.
Star Wars is unabashedly soft SciFi, it's a straight Fantasy story in space.
Star Trek is a half-breed - it pays some lip service to scientific "plausibility", but much of it stretches that envelope beyond the breaking point. Scientific accuracy was never the point of the series to begin with.