Favourite Sci-Fi Show

[Sim-Mania]

I've decided to take up Zaimat's suggestion, and create a poll about your favourite sci-fi show. I've put down every show I can think of, from shows that have been - B5, and the star trek series, to show just starting out such as SG-Atlantis, and Battle Star Galactica. I've also put in the X-Files, even though I'm not sure it exactly fits into the sci-fi category. If I've left any shows out please tell me.

P.S. I'm aimimg for at least 50 votes.

[Therlun]

50 votes? never! ehh... i mean: good luck to get 50 votes fast.

there are less then 80 users and most of them inactive...

only one choice hm?! so i vote for voyager.

difficult choice since i think ALL series are far inferior to a good book.
single episodes might be great, but most of the series become boring and shallow stadnard-tv after a time.
(even babylon5 which is rightly seen as a good-written series)

voyager may not be the series with best "on the average" sophistication, but several eposides did stay in my memory.
not so with the undoubtly great b5. i could tell a short overview of the good background story(good for a tv show), but i cant remember many "must have seen" episodes.

[Queeg 500]

What no Red Dwarf?!?!?!?

The greatest sci-fi ever. And the funniest.

And where's Futurama??

Anyway, from your list...it's a tough choice but I'd have to say X-Files, in particular the early years before it got obsessed with the alien conspiracy storyline. The one-off episodes where they're investigation the paranormal or wierd human freaks are great.

I also really like B5 but missed most of the shows. I'm currently working through all the DVDs by rental and, after just over a month, I'm on the last disc of series 1.

My favorite Star Trek series was DS9 as not every episode ended with either a diplomatic solution or some piece of techno mumbo-jumbo to beat the baddies. They actually shot at each other!!

[Zaimat]

Thanks sim.

I think all sci-fi movies had something to contribute to our imagination. Some much more than others.

I still remember as a kid being mesmerized by Battlestar Galactica. For the time it was great.

Babylon 5 was just so epic and immersive. ST: TNG the character interaction and cast was the best part. DS9 the later years, very entertaining.

I'm watching Enterprise now, for the most part it's very poor but once in a while I like the episodes.

Quite a few others I just haven't gotten the chance to get into.

Oh and I really like stargate sg1, they have just the right balance between entertaining cast and story. And the premise is great with stargates instead of ships being the link between planets.
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[RobHuntingdon]

Well... at the risk of sounding a bit obessed... I have an average of around 1.8 copies of every B5 original series episode in existance... all laboriously copied to remove commercials and organized by original airing order... etc...

But I actually don't classify B5 as my "absolute favorite". The only reason I didn't do that with TNG or DS9 was because I didn't have the equipment -- and now I don't have the time or easy access to reruns. But these days those three are pretty neck-and-neck and I basically consider them my "top three list".

Course they all had their occasional poorly done episode. But unlike (barf!) Enterprise, or (double-barf-squared) Voyager, at least the vast majority were decent.

RH
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Adapted from Sterling, pg. 45

[Sim-Mania]

For a time my favourite show was the X-Files, until stargate came along. Plus, the X-files ending was very poor in my mind, and I have no idea what scully's baby had to do with anything. (not Much in the end by my reckoning)Stargate is just a great premise for a show, great cast, and the season's seemed to have gotten better and better.

Now for one mindless Sci-Fi junkie question, Do you think the Enterprise from Next Gen. would be able to take out a standard goa'uld mothership? (Keeping in mind, it isn't one of anubis's motherships with ancient enhanced technology)

In my humble opinion, I reckon the Enterprise would come out on top.

P.S. Queeg 500, Red dewarf was a fantastic show, I didn't get to see most of the shows, but I do believe the show wasn't as funny when Rimmer left.

[Therlun]

@rob you think voy is even worsen then ENT?

now im used to people disliking voy but ... ENT? ENT!
ent is like voyager with all the good things removed! (even if you think voy had little good parts)

ENT is my ST nightmare!
quota-tits, macho captain, shallow stories, guest-episodes (ferengi, borg, Q will come. i bet!) and time travel overflow.
(it wont end! im sure...)

that reminds me of a joke:
thats how a meeting of the time travel agency is held in 2600:
one third of the employes reports how they visited the past and had some adventure,
one third claims it is in the wrong timeline,
an one third never existed....

even if you consider voy bad, IMO it had some very good episodes.

[RobHuntingdon]

I decline to pass judgement on the actual quality of the 'Enterprise' show. It's not that I think it's better than Voyager, I just don't care about the quality of the show anymore becuase the premise is so atrocious as to drive any Trek "purist" right up one wall and back down the other. They took just about every bit of "official" star trek "history" and tossed it right out the window. Add in the obvious attempt at playing with a guy's testosterone levels, foolishly thinking that will make a real Trekkie like a crappy show just 'cuz it's got a hot chick in it... at that point, I said forget it.

As for Voyager... I liked the first season. Second season was garbage. Third wasn't much better. And I really hate the fact that the show's ratings went up after Seven of Nine showed up. I mean, the show was total crap, and they tried to pump up ratings with a cheap ploy instead of doing what they should have done in the first place, dump the idiot Berman and all the writers and bring in some of the book writers who actually know how to write a decent story... Even the actors who were PAID to do the show couldn't believe people actually watched what they made. The guy who played Chakotay actually responded to an interview question once with something along the lines of: "you mean, people actually watch this crap?"

OK, enough ranting. In conclusion, give me a decent show and I'll watch. Give me garbage and a cheap hormone tug and I walk away and don't look back.
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Adapted from Sterling, pg. 45

[Sobriquet]

It's hard tp pick a "favorite", but the original ST gets the nod. Universally panned upon first release, but it matured into a world-wide cult. The shows were fairly well done; campy yet entertaining.

Besides it's hard to forget memorable lines like "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a brick layer." And "I canna do it cap'n. I'm given 'er all she's got."
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[Leone]

[Anguille]

I voted Star Trek: Deep Space 9. I loved it.

However i've seen all Star Trek Series with lots of interest. I can say i am a trekkie.

Babylon 5 was fantastic too. Especially the first 3 seasons.

When i was a child i loved Battlestar Galactica. I just wish someone brings a strategy game on that one (Babylon 5 too).

I found X-files great too but wouldn't have put it in that pool.
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[Warcaster]

although b5 does indeed kick ass i am currently in awe of the new bsg, anyone else think that the new ship looks phenominal?

anyway to add my bit to the ent vs voy debate i think ent is an 'ok' sci fi show but it really aint trek at all and for that i'm willing to watch and enjoy they pick timeline flaws for the evening. as for voy, it had its moments and the basic premise of getting home is a tried and tested winner, but it went on too long... how many spare parts do they have! how many photon torpedoes did they use! even with replicators on overtime they still pumped out more firepower in the course of the story than a whole starbase could in a week! but as i said there were some saving graces. the one thing i will never forgive them for though is turning the borg into a bunch of p**sy's. with picard they were all but unstopable in voy just that ship alone did more damage to the borg than all other races put together and that is rediculous.

as for a bsg game there is one due out. it is using the new series vessel but is set in the original cylon war, so the most adv fighter is the old mk2 the basestars still look like yo-yo's and the raiders like a bent frisbie should be cool

warcaster

[pilum]

my vote would have to go for babylon 5 (excluding last series). What i liked about it was the fact that there was a story running through the series and event accross them (not like star trek which always seemed a series of short stories). Please dont flame me for being a trekie hater i am not and have all of them on tape but it is just that babylon 5 added a new sci-fi dimension.

my close second vote would go to stargate SG-1. I think that the writers there have been really creative in establishing a new yet viable/believeable universe.

[ForesterSOF]

Looking at the list I wish I could choose many of them.

I look at each theme being different and when new episods were showing I did not want to stop watching them.
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[Quantum]

For me, it was a hard choice between B5 and the origional Star Trek. B5 for certainly the best epic - or novel and a masterpiece in my opinion, but the original Star Trek as well as 2001 were both proto-types that would raise the bar for many that follow. Star Trek also had ideas that would make you think on day to day issues such as predudice, wars, etc. And it was fun with good actors and positive morality - the kind thats ok for small children to see. Lastly, I liked the idea to meet life or whatever was next, head-on.

[Yaromir]

Earth's Final Conflict
Babylon 5
Deep Space 9

In that order.

I am a weird person, if it ain't got underlying moral dilema(s), often involving impact of technological progress, I ain't interested. Star Wars isn't really sci-fi, it's a Western with lasers.

[Leone]

[NacNud]

For me it would have to be Stargate SG-1 hands down. Before it came out it was Star Trek: TNG