Favorite TV Sci-Fi Series?

[TZ]

Lets hash this out since there's been a bit of a debate..

My absolute favorite is Babylon 5. I loved the evolving storyline. I thought they tied things together pretty well. And I kind of always liked Bruce Boxleitner...

[harmonicon]

1. I'm just going to assume....

.... that you didn't include Doctor Who, because it transcends sci-fi and even television. Doctor Who may be better than bread (both the food and the band), and possibly water. If someone thought that any show, ever, was better than Doctor Who.... well.... I don't want to think about it.

[Radical Activist]

38. and the band

heh

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Battlestar Galactica (the new series) doesn't make the list?????

Blasphemy!

[GaYellowDawg]

4. LOL, great minds...

I couldn't believe it either.

[MrScorpio]

49. Neither can I

That's the one

[NewJeffCT]

36. I'd vote for that one as well, though I might vote Buffy as well

if you call that Sci-Fi

[Nickster]

50. Another vote for BSG here!

[GaYellowDawg]

3. I cannot BELIEVE you forgot Battlestar Galactica

The 2000s reboot, that is. It's absolutely phenomenal. Some of the best writing and storylines on TV in the past 10 years. It's been breathtakingly daring and has explored issues that couldn't be explored in any other genre, like the best classics of SF do.

Edited for typo.

[TZ]

6. I'm sorry..here's where I admit to blaspheme

I could only choose ten and I realized I left some out. To be fair I never watched Battlestar Galactica or Dr. Who, which is why I forgot
But I also realized I left one of my personal favorits, X-Files!!:banghead:

[opiate69]

5. Red Dwarf.

:P

[Dr. Strange]

12. What the smeg is a "Red Dwarf?"

[Kucinich4America]

16. Oh Hell yeah!

That's what the smeg I'm talkin about, you bloody gits!

Sing along with Cat......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZKmUb6NBk

[opiate69]

22. LOL.. awesomeness!

[chknltl]

33. Yep, Red Dwarf seemes to have gotten lost from this list.

(I have a lifesize cardboard bush who is wearing my "Smeghead!" T-shirt)

[OhioChick]

7. The Highlander. n/t

[mwooldri]

8. Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Like Doctor Who, Like Torchwood. Can't wait for them to begin their new series on BBC America this Saturday. Then we'll only be one series behind the UK...

Mark.

[RoyGBiv]

9. BSG

Battlestar Galactica by a large measure.

[doc03]

10. Faux News n/t

[mainegreen]

11. Firefly.

I offer the episode 'Out of Gas' as proof. On a single episode basis this one episode wipes the floor of any other single episode of any of the other series. Sure, they're all good, but they are no firefly.

[appal_jack]

40. i really love firefly!

I only voted 'Dr. Who' above it since there are so many more Dr. Who episodes than there are 'Firefly's, but I agree with you about 'Out of Gas!'

:hi: :toast:

-app

[rurallib]

13. twilight zone!

[nytemare]

25. Second that!

Morality plays in the form of wonderfully weird entertainment.

Timeless.

[Drunken Irishman]

14. What, no X-Files? HOW ARE YOU!

I'm going to send the Beggar Man and Flukeman after you.

[TZ]

15. I know....my bad...

:spank:

[Jade Fox]

17. Lost in Space

[FloridaJudy]

18. No Outer Limits???

Blasphemy!

[Joe Fields]

19. You have GOT to be kidding...No Twilight Zone?

[Babel_17]

20. B5 for the win

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z'ha'dum

One of my favorite episodes. Lol, Justin, an early neo-con.

[Cannikin]

21. I've been a trekkie all my life, but......I have to choose the NEW Battlestar Galactica

"Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until the eight week, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to the source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exclusive, the colors run the path of ashes... run on the network while 52% of heat exchanger... digital matrix... relay to 0000... end of paragraph.

New paragraph. Pancreatic fluid at one with the continued effort to reach the matrix..."



"Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo, and love no more. End of line."


Jump!

[Babel_17]

27. Two must have videos if you like BSG

in my humble opinion:

http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/

If you like Kara (Starbuck) from BSG and the music of Pink dl these vids. Totally AAA imo.

http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/99665.html

http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/107517.html

P.S. I like what you posted, great pics to go with the wild hybrid rant.

[Cannikin]

28. Pink happens to be my favorite performer right now...

And her music and personality go perfectly with Starbuck.

[General Zod]

23. UFO

Only lasted one season, but what a season! Also has the distinction of having the best opening sequence of any Sci-Fi series ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY

Love the chicks with the purple wigs.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Heh - they're repeating it all in the UK at the moment

I caught the episode which gave me nightmares for years - the aliens paralyse Colonel Foster and fill his suit with their 'breathable liquid', to turn him into one of them. What I never remembered was that they got out of it by it turning out to be all a dream - about 10 years before Dallas tried that.

[Fox Mulder]

24. No X-Files?

That's my favorite, obviously.

[PleadTheFirst]

26. Dr. Who!

Now if we could just pop into the TARDIS and add the good Doctor to this poll in the first place ...

[vixengrl]

29. When I was, like, eleven y/o? Nothing could touch V:The Series

It was teh kewl.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WqU-Lt8VtGU


(For the youngsters, Beastmaster and Freddy Krueger were in it.)

I think it was SF "Dynasty" for me--Diana and Lydia were kind of soap-opera "dive-esque" after all, and kids grew up overnight (the Starchild). If Highlander counts as sf, though (I think it's a little more like fantasy, but those genres get lumped together)...well, that would be my young adult favorite.

[pokerfan]

30. Babylon 5

Introduction by season. (Couldn't find the one for the first season.) Spoilers.

Season 2: The Coming of the Shadows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC3kDan5aGM

Season 3: Point of no Return
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5pJ0FcIrc

Season 4: No Surrender, No Retreat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6YlftohFf8

Season 5: Wheel of Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMrOgvAW2U

[Greylyn58]

31. Babylon 5 hands down is the all time best

and this from someone who has been a Trekkie forever.



Two favorite quotes from the show.

G'Quon wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

Citizen G'Kar

No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power tyrants and dictators cannot stand. The Centauri learned that lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Although it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Ambassador G'Kar

Incredible show.

[Love Bug]

34. I agree!

I've also been a Trekkie forever and revere the new Battlestar, but there is just something about the grand themes of B5 that are so universal the others don't compare. I watch the DVDs and I am just astounded sometimes by the parallels between what Earth Gov became under President Clark (Nightwatch, anyone?) and what is going on now here. Sometimes when I see * on TV I swear there are Shadows standing behind him...

Who are you?
What do you want?

[Greylyn58]

37. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one drawing parallels

between what is happening now and the world of B5. In some ways it's frightening.

When Bush expanded his mess into Iraq and then talked of possibly continuing into other areas, I remembered a quote from B5 that fit the situation perfectly.

"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."

Londo Mollari

Very appropriate I think.

[philosophie_en_rose]

35. Doctor Who (And it's offspring Torchwood & Sarah Jane Adventures)

[appal_jack]

39. i love the older Dr. Who's

I love the older Dr. Who's from the 1970's and 1980's, so I would vote 'other' as well. Truly awful special effects back then, but many imaginative stories and though-provoking plots.

Haven't seen many of the new Dr. Who's since I don't own a TV now, but would be curious to check 'em out sometinme.

-app

[philosophie_en_rose]

44. *cough*

*cough*youtube*cough*torrents*

Torchwood and Doctor Who are on DVD.

[ozone_man]

41. Firefly.

ST:TNG and Dr. Who. I love/loved all three equally. But Dr. Who is still going and the new episodes, with the new Doctor, are very good.

[laconicsax]

42. Stargate SG-1

Consistently good for 10 seasons and 214 episodes.

[CatholicEdHead]

43. Bablyon 5 (seasons 2-4), then BSG, then DS9

[Mojambo]

45. Voyager and Enterprise make it, but BSG and Doctor Who don't?

Pah!

[Deja Q]

46. Doctor Who (1963-1989)

[Hayabusa]

47. Other

Doctor Who

[dancing kali]

48. B-5

Babylon 5 was a great show... and even the "day in the life" episodes were far superior to the "yet-another-temporal-anomaly" or the holodeck episodes in Star Trek. Star Trek never had a character as good as Ivanova and I'll take Kosh over Q as omnipotent being. One more thing... I prefer Bester to Chekhov.

I loved Firefly just because of Joss Whedon's writing... the sci-fi part wasn't so hot (wild west in space) but the dialogue was fabulous. I really liked River... she was as loopy as Drusilla was in Buffy.

DS-9 was as close to B-5 as the Trek universe would ever get - and I like Avery Brooks as an actor. I also loved the character of Garak.

Another favourite of mine is Starhunter. Percy is one of the best twitchy fruit-loopy characters going. She's right up there with River from Firefly. I notice it wasn't on the list. I'm not sure if it got airplay in the States.

Voyager & Enterprise never should have been made. The enterprise should have stopped with DS-9... no pun intended.

I only watched the original Battlestar Galactica because it was the only sf on tv at the time. While I do think that the new version is better, I am still waiting to be impressed.

Stargate... I liked the movie better. Series (either one)... meh.

Farscape is on my list of shows to watch when I can find someone to lend me their dvd's... it always seemed to be shown only when I was working. I liked some of the episodes that I saw but never watched it enough to have an opinion one way or the other.

Red Dwarf, Dr. Who are in a class by themselves.

I learned never to watch Lexx while having dinner.

X-Files was great at the beginning and sucked the last couple of seasons.

Star Trek (classic) was great for it's time. However, it's been in syndication forever. Kirk over emoting & boffing the alien female of the week has gotten old. "Illogical", "I'm a doctor not a..." & "The dilithium crystals won't take it..." are no longer funny. The tribbles aren't even cute anymore. Maybe it should be pulled for a few years just to give viewers a break.

[Guava Jelly]

51. Babylon 5 baby!!!

[tigereye]

52. ST TNG and DS9 and then Babylon 5

[stuntcat]

53. X-Files

I have to pick Other :7 :headbang:

[Cannikin]

54. In the defense of Trek...

TNG and Voyager are far closer to Gene's vision of Trek than DS9 or ENT. Both of those were just almost offensive to me and had Gene rolling in his urn.

Please, JJ, I'm all for a reboot after I see what could be done with the cheesy old BSG, but for god's sake, please try to keep some of Roddenberry's vision of the future intact.