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1. Star Trek TOS
2. Star Trek TNG
3. The Six Million Dollar Man
4. Battlestar Galactica
5. Buck Rogers
6. Stargate SG-1
7. Lost In Space
8. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
9. Star Trek DS9
10. Alien NationDiscuss.
1. Star Trek TOS2. Star Trek TNG3. The Six Million Dollar Man4. Battlestar Galactica5. Buck Rogers6. Stargate SG-17. Lost In Space8. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea9. Star Trek DS910. Alien NationDiscuss.
Based on these selections alone, I would arrange them like this:1. Star Trek TNG2. Star Trek TOS3. Stargate SG-14. Battlestar Galactica (*original series)5. Buck Rogers6. The Six Million Dollar ManThe ones omitted were ones that I never saw or never got into (though I admit that I barely remember seeing 4, 5, and 6 when they were on TV when I was a kid).Here would be my current selection of best sci-fi TV shows:1. Star Trek TNG2. Falling Skies3. Lost4. Dr. Who (original series)5. Star Trek TOS6. Alphas7. Stargate: Atlantis8. V (1984)9. Outer Limits (remake)10. Smallville
Smallville isn't science fiction. It's fantasy. “V” was a mini-series so I'm not sure it qualifies for this post either. I guess Eureka might qualify. That was a good show too.
Smallville isn't science fiction. It's fantasy. "V" was a mini-series so I'm not sure it qualifies for this post either. I guess Eureka might qualify. That was a good show too.
So it's fantasy but not science fiction? What is science fiction aside from fantasy which involves more tech and fewer elves/dwarfs/wizards? I actually saw Smallville listed in a larger list of sci-fi TV series so that's what gave me the idea to include it on here. Also, I think that the original "V" had more than one season, and I specifically remember a Christmas episode. I therefore think it qualifies as a sci-fi TV series.
The original Outer Limits. Has anyone here seen To Serve Mankind?
I thought that was a Twilight Zone episode where they realize it's a cookbook rather than a book of diplomacy. I did see that episode a while back. Was it actually the Outer Limits?
Well I don't consider super heroes as science fiction. My criteria for science fiction is:1. has to take place in the future or distant past2. has to have a more advanced technological society or focus on technology3. has to have a theme dealing with man's struggle for survival4. has a theme dealing with how man is evolving or will evolve when he encountersnew alien racesStuff like that. 🙂
Old but good one is Metropolis (1927 Fritz Lang)and the following:. Delicatessen (1991). 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrik). Blade Runner (Scott). The Matrix (Wachowski). THX 1138 (Lucas)
I sit corrected. Twilight Zone it was. To Serve Man appeared first as a short story in Galaxy Science Fiction.
Well I don't consider super heroes as science fiction. My criteria for science fiction is:1. has to take place in the future or distant past2. has to have a more advanced technological society or focus on technology3. has to have a theme dealing with man's struggle for survival4. has a theme dealing with how man is evolving or will evolve when he encountersnew alien racesStuff like that. 🙂
That's an interesting criteria list. I hadn't thought about what qualifies as sci-fi before. I would have a different list, but perhaps that's another thread. (But just to sneak in one point - I don't think there needs to be alien contact, and I think it can take place any time - including the present. Think about movies like "Running Man" (Schwarzenegger) or "Surrogates" (Willis), neither of which have alien contact but which I think are both "Sci-Fi" in category). But wouldn't your own criteria exclude the "Six Million Dollar Man" which you put in your list?
Well I don't consider super heroes as science fiction. My criteria for science fiction is:1. has to take place in the future or distant past2. has to have a more advanced technological society or focus on technology3. has to have a theme dealing with man's struggle for survival4. has a theme dealing with how man is evolving or will evolve when he encountersnew alien racesStuff like that. 🙂
So The Walking Dead would fit!
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