OT - Good sci fi TV shows?

[capnq]

wasn't there supposed to be some new series starting with some acclaimed director or something. It was gonna be like a cross western/space pirates or something.

You're thinking of Joss (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Whedon's Firefly.

It was cancelled, mainly because the Fox network execs didn't understand its potential.

[Omega_Prime]

Fox is the kiss of death to Sci-Fi. LOL

I heard that they are going to be the host of the new Battlestar Galactica. I also heard that they "re-imagined" the story, and Starbuck is a girl.

That would tend to sound like the kind of story-rape that Fox would buy.

[David E. Gervais]

How's this for a strange (and a bit obscure) list of Sci-Fi TV shows...

1) Logan's run
2) Planet Earth (Based on Genisis by Rodenbery!)
3) U.F.O.
4) V
5) Time Tunnel
6) Lost in space
7) My favorite martian
8) Red Dwarf
9) Tekwar
10) Earth 2 (I thought this one had potential!)
11) 7 Days
12) Earth:Final Conflict
13) Robocop
14) The Martian Cronicles
15) Mork and Mindy

..I also seem to remember a short lived TV series based on the planet of the apes, but I might be getting it confused with the original movies!

More recently, I have been watching..

1) Andromeda (Great!)
2) Stargate SG1 (Fantastic!)
3) Enterprise (Getting better!)
4) Total Recall: 2070 (Just plain fun!)
5)..and many show in re-runs.. ST:TOS, ST:TNG, STS9, etc.

Cheers!

[thorfrog]

How about the Top 11 best scifi movies
11 Stargate
10 Starship Troopers
9 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8 Predator
7 The 5th Element
6 Terminator 2
5 The Matrix
4 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3 Return of the Jedi
2 Empire Strikes Back
1. Star Wars

[ February 14, 2003, 20:41: Message edited by: atomannj ]

[thorfrog]

Now my top 10 worst scifi movies:
10 Star Wars: Episode 1
9 Ice Pirates of the Phantom Zone
8 Alien: Resurrection
7 Highlander II: The Quickening
6 Star Trek Insurrection
5 Batman Returns
4 Batman & Robin
3 Men in Black 2
2 Star Trek V
1 Battlefield: Earth

[StormcloudCreations]

I loved the original Star Wars movies, the 70's stuff (6 million dollar man!) and I still watch the Incredible Hulk episodes occasionally (the Bill Bixby one; is this considered sci-fi?). The Hulk show from the 70's brings back great memories from when I was a kid and stayed up every Friday night to watch it.

[javaslinger]

So what' in store for the future of Sci-fi TV? I'm asking mainly about ones in space and the future.

Anything being worked on with potential? It seems to be a dying genre on television.

Ken

[Omega_Prime]

A "re-imagined" Battlestar Galactica starts filming next month. I think there is a glut of Star Trek out there, so hopefully they will cut it out.

Stargate: Atlantis is in the works, but may be put back since SG1 got a 7th season. Rumor has it that Atlantis will take place off-world.

Aliens was going to be done in CGI animation series, I had heard, but never saw it. I may have missed it. I certainly missed this Firefly thing.

Star Trek: Counter-Borge Command should be good.
It will feature Admiral Janeway, and Kevin Sorbo as "Captain Dunsel". Sorbo, who directed Andromeda into the toilet, will be directing and writing for the new series. Spunk, the obligatory alien on the bridge, will be a vulcan played by a 300 lb Samoan. Also, rumors have it that there will be a Q officer on the bridge, and the entire security staff will be shape-shifters. Ignoring established story lines, the series will take place in the 1700s.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[Kamog]

Wow, they're making another Star Trek series? All right!! Hmm, a 300 lb vulcan officer on the bridge?... okay. Q officer? Cool, the ship is going to be invincible - but fighting the Borg might get to be kind of boring and not very exciting. Shape shifting security staff, like Odo? Wow... What, 1700's? OK, you had me fooled up to now!

[Krsqk]

Cool, the ship is going to be invincible - but fighting the Borg might get to be kind of boring and not very exciting.

Oh, you mean like on Voyager.