Which is best?
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
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You missed Babylon 5. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Babylon 5 - hard to find a close second
. . . reverential gap . . .
Dr Who - the early ones (up through Dr. No. 6) (not the '2005' franchise).
- particularly bad are the xmas specials.
Star Trek - as long as we pretend "Voyager, with Captain Mommy" never existed
- also, anything with "Q" sucks, as wellsome up-and-comers include:
Preacher.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
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Sure you have missed a lot, but in this case I don't even know if an English version ever existed: Raumpatrouille Orion[^] The commander notoriously disobeys orders and is a general pain in the rear for his superiors, but gets away with it (most of the time). Too bad they only made eight episodes, more like a mini series.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
In its day Babylon 5 beat them all, but then BSG surpassed it. The only flaw with B5, to my mind (other than the truly dreadful acting by Jeffrey Sinclair in season one - they got rid of him after that thank god) was that the story arc progressed far too slowly... ..and before either of those, of course, there was Blake's 7... now there was a series ahead of its time...
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Of the list given, Star Trek. As others have said, Babylon 5 trumps all of them. I enjoyed the 'older' Dr. Who - starting watching it with Tom Baker in the '80s. Was excited about the new Dr. Who and watched it on and off... but not for a while. Of Star Trek: original, TNG, DS-9 and Discovery; detested Voyager and never watch Enterprise.
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Babylon 5 - hard to find a close second
. . . reverential gap . . .
Dr Who - the early ones (up through Dr. No. 6) (not the '2005' franchise).
- particularly bad are the xmas specials.
Star Trek - as long as we pretend "Voyager, with Captain Mommy" never existed
- also, anything with "Q" sucks, as wellsome up-and-comers include:
Preacher.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
W∴ Balboos wrote:
anything with "Q" sucks,
Add "or Wesley Crusher" to that. Some of Voyager was good - particularly after they dumped Kes.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Dr Who doesn't belong in the list. Every episode feels like they're injecting new rules of physics - very difficult/impossible to suspend disbelief. And feels like it's for kids.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Dr Who
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Dr Who doesn't belong in the list. Every episode feels like they're injecting new rules of physics - very difficult/impossible to suspend disbelief. And feels like it's for kids.
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In its day Babylon 5 beat them all, but then BSG surpassed it. The only flaw with B5, to my mind (other than the truly dreadful acting by Jeffrey Sinclair in season one - they got rid of him after that thank god) was that the story arc progressed far too slowly... ..and before either of those, of course, there was Blake's 7... now there was a series ahead of its time...
They didn't get rid of him - he had severe mental problems with delusions and paranoia; he couldn't do series two so Sheridan was brought in (and was indeed so much better). Most of series one is weak, but rewatching it you notice how much of the future shape of series four was mapped out right from the beginning!
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Of the list given, Star Trek. As others have said, Babylon 5 trumps all of them. I enjoyed the 'older' Dr. Who - starting watching it with Tom Baker in the '80s. Was excited about the new Dr. Who and watched it on and off... but not for a while. Of Star Trek: original, TNG, DS-9 and Discovery; detested Voyager and never watch Enterprise.
Enterprise is pretty good - first Enterprise in space didn't even have big phasers on the ship - captain didn't always take the high-road; much more human - no prime directive - no federation - sort of a prequel Also, I've seen 1-8 of "Star Trek Continues[^]"
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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In its day Babylon 5 beat them all, but then BSG surpassed it. The only flaw with B5, to my mind (other than the truly dreadful acting by Jeffrey Sinclair in season one - they got rid of him after that thank god) was that the story arc progressed far too slowly... ..and before either of those, of course, there was Blake's 7... now there was a series ahead of its time...
A_Griffin wrote:
the story arc progressed far too slowly...
What was your hurry? It allowed characters to develop in a natural way; deviated to events outside of the main plot; and in general, was a work of art with the necessary detail to give it the breath of life.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
I've been re-watching Stargate SG-1 recently. I'm up to season 4 at the moment. Favorite line to date: "... right in the middle of my back-swing?!?!"
Software Zen:
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I've been re-watching Stargate SG-1 recently. I'm up to season 4 at the moment. Favorite line to date: "... right in the middle of my back-swing?!?!"
Software Zen:
delete this;I watched a few episodes from series 1 last night - from where Daniel goes through the mirror into the alternate reality.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Not a franchise, but a worthwhile watch: Dark Matter[^]. Writing, acting, and production values are pretty good. Definitely worth a re-watch for me.
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Not a franchise, but a worthwhile watch: Dark Matter[^]. Writing, acting, and production values are pretty good. Definitely worth a re-watch for me.
Software Zen:
delete this;Yup, great show. :thumbsup:
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
I really like The Expanse, whose third season is planned to air on April, 11th. A story where Earth is confronted to two other entities who arose upon space conquest: Mars, and its military-based society, and the people living in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. If you did not see it yet, you may enjoy it.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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They didn't get rid of him - he had severe mental problems with delusions and paranoia; he couldn't do series two so Sheridan was brought in (and was indeed so much better). Most of series one is weak, but rewatching it you notice how much of the future shape of series four was mapped out right from the beginning!
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Gosh, I didn't know that - poor bloke. My only other niggly gripe with the series was that I thought they kind of wasted Susan Ivanova - she was a great character, and the only one with any real sense of humour. I kind of wish they'd made use of her (and that aspect of her) a bit more - if the series had a fault it's maybe that it took itself a bit too seriously. But I don't mean to be too mean about it - I really enjoyed it at the time, and it was far superior to anything else in the genre at that point.
