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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For me, hands down Stargate-SG1 was the best of all the sci-fi franchises produced for television, followed by Battlestar Galactica... Planning on buying the entire SG1 series to see it all over again... :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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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
There is only one: Red Dwarf Never take the future seriously. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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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
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who? I barely remember Hartnell, I admit. I saw some of them, but I was young. Some of the Troughton episodes were, for their time, very good and scary - yetis roaming the London Underground system is one I remember well and it was well scary for it's time. Pertwee was a great Doctor, too. That era, with the continuing story of the Brigadier (a descendent of whom appeared in a recent Capaldi episode IIRC), and the story The green death in particular, was a classic. Ice warriors, Silurians, Cyber men, Daleks ... great enemies.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Star Trek Star Wars Stargate
Wait... These are not the same?
Star Wars: dumb fantasy for children. Star Trek: documentary of future events. Stargate: the truth about pyramids. :)
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What! No one mentioned Tomorrow People? The UK one (70's). And there was; UFO ('70's) Some good Brit Sci Fi. And for the silliness: Lost In Space (70's). (at the time thought Judy was cute and always hoped Dr. Smith or Robot would really obliterate the snotnose Will.) And let's not forget TorchWood - Dr. Who spinoff but grown up and with more action.
UFO was a great series. It's unfortunate that Space 1999 replaced UFO season 2. :(( As I remember, the first episode or two of Lost in Space seemed fairly serious. Then they bought express tickets on the crazy train. I like that the galactic currency was the Squandrill. On the anime end of things, Planetes (2003-2004) is more hard SF than space opera, and has a political backdrop that goes beyond the usual cardboard cutouts. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (starting in 1988) is pretty interesting, though since it was an OVA series with zillions of episodes, instead of TV, they did a lot to economize on animation. The author of the books it's based on is a major history fan, and it shows. It features a war between a dictatorial empire that is reforming itself, vs a corrupt democracy. It isn't "Good vs Bad" - both sides have their good and bad points. (It's also a little David Weber-ish -- fleets of hundreds of huge ships obliterating each other.
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For me, hands down Stargate-SG1 was the best of all the sci-fi franchises produced for television, followed by Battlestar Galactica... Planning on buying the entire SG1 series to see it all over again... :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
All on Hulu, if you are able to get it.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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How "early" do you go with Dr. Who? I barely remember Hartnell, I admit. I saw some of them, but I was young. Some of the Troughton episodes were, for their time, very good and scary - yetis roaming the London Underground system is one I remember well and it was well scary for it's time. Pertwee was a great Doctor, too. That era, with the continuing story of the Brigadier (a descendent of whom appeared in a recent Capaldi episode IIRC), and the story The green death in particular, was a classic. Ice warriors, Silurians, Cyber men, Daleks ... great enemies.
Alister Morton wrote:
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who?
Early but they are for canon; the more modern Dr Who (especially with Tennant) is the best.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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Alister Morton wrote:
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who?
Early but they are for canon; the more modern Dr Who (especially with Tennant) is the best.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
In the modern "reboot" era, Tennant was excellent, redefined the Doctor. Smith, Capaldi, not as good, which was disappointing. Eccleston had his moments. Tom Baker still takes some beating, mind.
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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
Someone watched Heaven (The name of a fictitious town in New England) ? That was mostly quite good, but a few seasons were weak compare to the others.
Gilles Plante
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In the modern "reboot" era, Tennant was excellent, redefined the Doctor. Smith, Capaldi, not as good, which was disappointing. Eccleston had his moments. Tom Baker still takes some beating, mind.
Could not stand Pertwee or Baker. Hartnell was the best of the early Doctors.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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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.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
Orion died because they couldn't match the production speed and spread that Star Trek had, also disadvantaged by being only still in black&white, while Star Trek was done already in color. But liked such small details as the pencil sharpeners as control elements on the flight control panel... ;P
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Orion died because they couldn't match the production speed and spread that Star Trek had, also disadvantaged by being only still in black&white, while Star Trek was done already in color. But liked such small details as the pencil sharpeners as control elements on the flight control panel... ;P
At least they obviously already had ironed out all design flaws. :-)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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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
Well, never been a fan of Dr.Who. And don't think Star Trek Voyager is bad because of a female captain (or little boy Crusher_, but I agree, I don't like that Q character either... In general might also be one of the few people that like both Star Trek and Star Wars. For me, they represent two totally different approaches to life in space. Star Trek as a view as to how humanity could evolve in a couple hundreds of years, with a clear connection of their history back in our current times. Star Wars however is a totally fictitious realm, a long time ago and far, far away, that is from the onset to be a work of fantasy... Babylon 5 wasn't bad, while Battleship Galactica never really caught my attention, Firefly/Serenity was a bit boring...
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Which is best?
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. :laugh: Only do it in Trumps voice - not Ahnold.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like. Dave
"hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper" - Cohen the Barbarian
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You missed Battlestar Galactica :omg: If you have not seen it(the recent version not the 70's version) you are missing out on some excellent sci-fi storytelling. I stopped watching Doctor Who when it became overly political with regards to being overly conscious of and ramming gender politics down my throat(but that's the BBC for you...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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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
Strictly speaking this is a "series" ... Dune MiniSeries 2000. Its "sequel" series was in some ways even better, while in others not so much: Children of Dune. Of course both are a bit removed from the original books. In which case the old Dune (1980s) was closer. Just wish the rest of the books would be continued in the same manner. Stuff like the God Emperor of Dune, the Heretics of Dune, etc. would give even more "epic" sagas.
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If you have not seen it(the recent version not the 70's version)
RTFM ;)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens