May the Force Live Long and Prosper!!!
Posted on 07/25/2015 11:07:06 AM PDT by EveningStar
From the whiz-bang and cheesy to the far-out and prematurely cancelled, sci-fi and TV have had a nice run. We locked ourselves in the basement with several milk crates of VHS tapes, laser discs, and back issues of Starlog to come up with the top 50 science-fiction television shows.
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I have always enjoyed scifi but I’ve never heard of half of those.
TNG was infected with the Modern Liberal Politically Correct Bug. Remember when it first started, they had a Female head of security? That's just politically correct stupidity, and that character didn't last long.
There were Two episodes of it I found particularly offensive.
Remember when Riker fell in love with the homosexual Alien? To be fair, the Aliens of that Planet were supposed to be "Sexless" but this one in particularly just happened to look like a beautiful Woman, and other Aliens happen to look either Feminine or Masculine, but the species were supposed to be "neutral", being neither female or male, and so therefore a "neutral" thinking it is female is analogous to a homosexual in normal society.
That's what the writers were going for. You could tell from the dialogue that they were attempting to "normalize" the idea of people not adhering to normal gender roles.
The Second Episode I found particularly offensive is when An Admiral is assigned to the Enterprise to find a research ship that went missing years earlier.
The "Secret Agencies" at the Federation were doing research on a sort of Cloaking device that would allow a ship to "ghost" and go through ordinary matter. They find the ship, and the Admiral attempts to gain possession of it and get it back to the Federation.
Riker deliberately disobeys direct orders, Transmits a signal to enemy forces (Either Klingons or Romulons) and hands the technology over to them, because he takes it upon himself to enforce a Treaty contrary to the direct orders of the Admiral in command.
Rather than be instantly court marshaled and shot, as would anyone who did such a thing in an actual Military organization, Commander Riker is not even given a slap on the hand.
I have no contrary argument. Star Trek TOS was indeed very influential. We even named our first Space Shuttle “Enterprise.”
Soylent Green is people!!!!
No? Not there huh?
Agreed.
Another 100 years will pass, and The Twilight Zone will hold-up just based off of the strength of its writing alone.
Think I’d put Firefly nearer to the top. Great show, shame Fox canceled it before it really had a chance to gain traction and generate better ratings.
Wish it could come back even today, but I know it isn’t going to happen sadly.
What about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. First the movie and then the TV series with Richard Basehart and David Hedison? Never missed an episode. I used to jump for joy every time they released the flying submarine from the Seaview. I’m still waiting for the day that gets built.
Great graphic!
The best thing to do is find the OVA release End of Evangelion, which is the director's intended ending, watch episodes 1-24, then End of Evangelion. If it still doesn't make sense, get NGE: Death and Rebirth and watch it followed by End of Evangelion again.
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With the indended ending from End of Evangelion, Shinji's father, Ikari Gendo, instead of being perhaps the record SoB in all of anime, is just another deeply flawed character, like every other character in the series (with the possible exception of Eva Unit 01).
My thought exactly.
.. and its dumb time-travel non-plots. The TARDIS was just an excuse to get the characters to where ever they needed to be. Pop in, do whatever, then pop out.
For more dramatic consequences of what might actually happen if someone started messing with actual time travel, see Steins;Gate, a series that deserves to be on this list. (Hint: It's huge.)
Got them all. I gotta disagree. I’m nor religious about it but I found a lot of depth. I know some fans are insane about it.
When you pile all the actual religon/morality they weave into every part of that show, from the obvious angel refrences/Nephlim To the....
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... Unit 1 as God/Mary in one being, I’d say it’s deeper than a lot out there.
See also the video game seriea Xenogears/Xenosaga. Great stuff!
X-Files should be number 1.
Babylon 5 needs to be much higher on the list. It was the first show to create a distinct story arc spanning not just a whole season but the entire series back when the various Star Trek spinoffs were wholly episodic with little to nothing linking one episode to another. This new concept is what made Lost so successful.
I’d also rearrange the top 5. X Files doesn’t belong there at all, Star Trek TOS should be 2nd as it defined sci-fi TV for Americans, and the BSG remake was an extraordinary story. Dr Who probably deserves the first slot simply because its been around the longest by far, even if I don’t like the show.
I’d also drop 99% of the anime off of the list.
Where’s Science Fiction Theater?
Good one!
And how about
Men Into Space, an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 which realistically depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.
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