Re: No contest
> "My vote for best goes to Bab5."
> And mine goes to Battlestar Galactica.
>Pfft! Firefly was best
That would be Blakes 7.
mic drop
A bloke was arrested after a shouting match with a pal over Star Wars versus Star Trek led to blood being spilled. Jerome Dewayne Whyte, 23, was collared by Oklahoma police at 6pm on July 1 after he and his roommate argued about the relative merits of the snooty space opera versus the sci-fi merchandizing vehicle turned …
"You have a computer with a shutdown sound? How quaint."
Not as quaint as the 10-15 minutes it takes to boot to a usable state in the morning (Commercial OS, of course: My home Linux box of older hardware boots up from cold - including > equivalent start-up software - in about 28 seconds).
But work pays me to use the tools they provide.
Any B7 fans out there need to watch the spoof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWuTeR7xCU4
Orac saying 'are we there yet' in a plaintive voice gets me every time :) Very much like the time he was interrupted and said 'but what about the game?' even though imminent danger was looming :)
Some of the best (and possibly worst) lines ever written were in B7.
I discovered Lexx late at night on Channel 4 many, many years ago. It was the first episode and the moment a computer glitch switched the fates of a wanted terrorist with an assembly of school children who had arrived for an award ceremony, I knew I had to watch all of it. It's on Amazon Prime at the moment so I re-watched it the first couple of episodes. And guess what - the sight of a bunch of smug school children being sentenced to death by lizard still makes me laugh.
Honestly, neither Star Wars (no science), nor Star Treck (awful science) come close to the holy trinity of space nonsense that are Babylon 5, Blake 7 and Lexx.
Talk about pissing contests! BSG2 only made it on the air because they pitched it as "just as good" as B5 but with lots more sex sex sex. With sex added they got a decent budget, unlike B5 which limped along on back-of-sofa funds. Talk about oily robotic action series and vehicles for washed up actors! "Hey, let's get Xena! That'll help our ratings!"
You get more with a kind word and a two-by-four and splashy SEX than with just a kind word and a plot.
(Me, bitter? Naah. "So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.")
(Oh, god, I'm defending a ~20 year-old against a ~13 year-old TV series. Well, that's better than defending the first trilogy Gah!)
Red Dwarf for the win. Smeg all the others.
And its near-cousin, Hyperdrive.
"You have done a bad thing. We are going to re-habilitate you.
Watch the kitten. She does not question authority! Be like the happy kitten!
And look! Another kitten, sitting in a hat! What a lovely world it is where kittens can sit in hats!"
I prefer Firefly as best Scifi series, which certainly got cancelled before it's time. Stargate SG-1 was good too, SG:Atlantis had its moments but sometimes felt a little too grandiose for it's own good. SG:U started off terrible but worked it's way up to being actually quite good by the time it got cancelled and IMHO should have been given atleast 1 more season.
Star Wars as a series of movies isn't all that terrible, but a little pompous at times and terrible at others. Star Trek introduced a lot of the now standard elements of Scifi but there are many, many terrible, horrible stories/episodes offset against the good ones and the acting is not always that great either imho. A bit like watching old Dr. Who at times. Wobbly sets and all.
Babylon5, DS9, etc I've never even seen, so can't comment.
My exact thought; Star wars; Princess Leia, Star Trek; 7 of 9!
In addition Star Wars was a Hollywood epic from day 1, Trek was a low budget TV series that took its time to win the hearts and minds of its followers, it was cheesy but nevertheless raised issues, asked questions and was, for it's day very multicultural and quite egalitarian. It was closer to real sci-fi, in my opinion SW is more sci-fantasy with the force and hi-tech beings battling with swords, even if they are hi-tech swords.
Oh, I don't much like fluffy cuddly warriors or (the real killer for SW) any franchise that could introduce a JarJarBinks.
Whilst I'm on the subject of TV show mashups, an old picture I made:
haku.co.uk/b3ta/KnightTeamTrek.jpg
"I aint getting in no transporter, fool!"
Hadn't seen that video before, I liked it.
But the possible reality of an actual working transporter is far far scarier than accidentally merging two entities together.
Sleep tight!
Whilst I actually agree that DS9 was (so far) the best of the Star Trek series... it's still way short of shows like Firefly, Farscape, Babylon 5 and so forth. It's on par with SG1, BSG...
What I'm more interested in is what people think are the 'Worst' shows of the last 30yrs... that's sure to cause a few fisticuffs. :)