The greatest science-fiction concept.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

actually, DS9 is super cool

A> because it is
B> because of Jadzia
C> because Jadzia kiss another girl

call me very shallow if you will but that topped it off.

oh and the great plot characters space shits and generall coolness of it all.

[Señior's Covenant]

Love Star Trek. Love Star Wars. Love Transformers. Love Babylon 5.

I love alot.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

do u love, love?

I love Stargate aswell, o'neils dry wit is cool, and lately i fancy sam... im getting old?

the only sci-fi i couldnt do is andromeda, i mean drommy was so fit, i could watch her all day, but it was just crap viewing..
lexx was sometimes interesting, fit girls.

hmm...

[Señior's Covenant]

do u love, love?

I love Stargate aswell, o'neils dry wit is cool, and lately i fancy sam... im getting old?

the only sci-fi i couldnt do is andromeda, i mean drommy was so fit, i could watch her all day, but it was just crap viewing..
lexx was sometimes interesting, fit girls.

hmm...

I could say the same about all of above.

Lexx was crap for a show, but awesome for a show.

[Brendocon]

Meanwhile, over at some Trek board...

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I have enormous contempt for the entire Transformers brand as a whole.  Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch.  It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it...

To be fair, though, 80% of the TF cartoons are ***** and evoke that very reaction in me.

Your move!

[Kaylee]

Meanwhile, over at some Trek board...

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I have enormous contempt for the entire Transformers brand as a whole.  Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch.  It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it...

To be fair, though, 80% of the TF cartoons are ***** and evoke that very reaction in me.

Your move!

King's horsey to queen's prawn.

{moves piece}

[saysadie]

Meanwhile, over at some Trek board...

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I have enormous contempt for the entire Transformers brand as a whole.  Primarily as a result of the fans, with secondary reasons being that (despite multiple attempts) I've never managed to make it through an entire episode of any series.

Just an opening sequence is enough to send me scrambling for something - anything - else to watch.  It doesn't help that there seemed to be about a dozen different versions of it...

Isn't that just the way of things, though?

Me... um, bout the only things I like[d] that could be classified as Sci-Fi would be TFs. BW specifically. The Aliens movies... one or two SW films are okay (I like Ewoks; hate me ) and I used to watch TNG as a kid, too. My brother used to tape it (and a whole bunch of other shows) for us kids and send the tapes back home. The original series never really caught on with me, though my brother used to tape that too... I liked some of the movies however. The one with the whales was a fave.

I've not really watched any other sci fi beyond them thar that I can think of... And [to sort-of answer the original question] anything involving time travel can be fun if you're watching it with the right company.

[Guest]

Talk about your mother of all off-topic nightmares!

I start an innocent topic about science fiction, and end up with page and a half debate over what makes good sci-fi.

Anyone here not know the difference between science fiction and sci-fi? Yes?

Well, maybe we should explain it.

Science Fiction: Fiction, where there is a situation involving a factual or fictitious scientific concept, and the drama that revolves around it.

Sci-Fi: Big budget, action-packed adventure where scientific concepts are dwarfed by special effects and the drama is virtually non-existent.

Or, in a nutshell - Most books of the genre are Science Fiction, most films of the genre are Sci-Fi.

Cloning and Robots bring up entirely different issues to Genetics and Technology. Time travel and Space travel give us different approaches to alternative worlds, and Aliens can exist with or without the need for either of those mechanisms.

[Metal Vendetta]

...I'll just have a scone, thanks.

[Shanti418]

I voted for Time Travel.










But I just want everyone to know that I stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with Impy and Covenant in telling you: Babylon 5 kicks ass!!!!

[Brendocon]

I don't like the fact that people immediately think of the rubbish parts of a genre, so I'm going to try and filter out the things I dislike by pretending that the short-hand name for the category actually refers to something completely distinct from the full name.

Sorry, mate. That's what I just read.

Fiction with roots in scientific concepts is fiction with roots in scientific concepts. Regardless of how much emphasis is placed on the science, and regardless of whether it's in written or audio/visual media.

But then, if I'm being literal, I'll also throw CSI into science fiction, and turf out anything with time travel/aliens/whatever into the fantasy genre. Which actually sounds like a pretty good idea to me...

[Guest]

Sorry, not biting.

You interpret it as a sweeping generalisation of my personal tastes as much as you like.

[Predabot]

I'd say that Time Travel with all it's madness and chaos that it can inflict is the most interesting science-fiction concept.

I of course include all forms of extra-dimensional travel in this, including going into higher and lower dimensions of time, and space, & of course parallel worlds. ( alt. time-lines, vibration-planes, other multiversial nodes, etc.)

It might hur the old nogger at times, when ones feeble intellect tries to grasp the concepts finer parts, but it's ussually good fun.

[sprunkner]

Karl is funny.

Yea.. seriously, here we are dissing on Star Trek, which, although pompous, self-important, stilted and overblown, managed to say some pretty deep things about the human condition. Whereas the TF cartoon...