The anoracks that came from outer space!

Movies:
*. The Empire Strikes Back - Best of the 6.
*. Close Encounters - An old classic
*. Bladerunner - One of the best films ever
*. Serenity - Just love the whole series and film.
*. Solaris. The Russian original although Clooney's remake isn't bad either.

TV:
Star Trek (TOS and TNG)
Blakes 7 - showing my age I know
THHGTTG - where do you think the 42 in my nick comes from
Buck Rogers. be da be ba be da Helloooo Buck
Sapphire and Steel. Very odd series.

Good thread! Some interesting Sci-Fi links on the SDAS web page www.southdublinastronomy.org/wiki/Links#Science_Fiction

Films:

1. Silent Running ... poignant and interesting how the main character sees the three little robots almost as human.

2. Blade Runner

3. Metropolis

4. The Thing ... (old b/w version) "You mean we're being attacked by a giant carrot?"

5. Plan 9 from Outer Space ... I know, I know ... voted worst film ever but surprisingly good and interesting in that a lot more recent movies have borrowed bits from it.


TV

1. Stargate (and Atlantis)

2. Futurama

3. Third Rock from the Sun

4. Red Dwarf

5. Star Trek Voyager

... and any cartoon with an astronomy slant. E.g., the episode of the Simpsons where Bart discovers the comet (Skinner: "I was beaten to the last one by Principal Kohoutek"). Or the one where Lisa tried to do something about light pollution (Lisa: "Why don't you do something about the light pollution?" Prof. Fink: "It's harder than trying to get a date around here." Lisa: "But can't you move out of the observatory?" Prof Fink: "If I do that, another astronomer will move in. They're like hermit crabs. Look! There's one now!" (as he throws a microscope at some astronomers lurking in the trees). Brilliant!

These are my fav scifi movies, my real top 5 is quite different though.

Movies ( not necessarily in order, difficult enough to pick only 5):

Empire Strikes Back

Predator

T2 Judgement Day

Tremors

Screamers



TV Shows

Star Trek TNG

Stargate SG1

Star Trek Voyager

Dark skies ( only one season though)

Melenium(in its day)

X Files( in its day also)




very difficult to list out a few favs. been sitting here ages trying to think, and im sure ive forgotten some even better shows/ movies

Mmmmm....

Top 5 films would have to be:

Bladerunner (just such an atmospheric clever film)

Event Horizon (I get scared just thinking about it)

The Abyss (lovely)

Signs (Not overly sentimental for an American film)

Terminator 2 (special effects, cool story)

Top TV:

Dr. Who (old and new)

Torchwood (Dro Who for grown-ups )

Farscape (sometimes I had to watch it thru' twice just to get the drift of what the hell they were on about)

Lost (I know this isn't really sc-fi, it's Fantasy but I can't think of anymore and I love Lost)

Film
1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. Blade Runner
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. All the other Star Wars films and an honourable mention to Predator

TV
1. Original Star Trek (Still stands up well today)
2. Star Trek - Next Generation
3. Star Trek - Voyager
4. Dr. Who - Tom Baker
5. Dr. Who - John Pertwee

gosh, thats a difficult question, so many to choose from

Movies
StarTrek, The Undiscovered Country (much darker then other ST movies)
StarTrek, The Wrath of Khan (Khan is just brilliant)
StarWars, The return of the Jedi (great battle scenes)
DeepImpact (it could happen ! :lol: )
2010 (2001 is just tooo long)

TV
Startrek, orig series (some great one liners, Bones>"what am I a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor")
Stargate Atlantis (good plot)
Startrek, The Next Generation (its a classic, Q is just gas :lol: )
Startrek, DS9 (the DS9/Dominion battles are just amazing!)
Stargate SG1 (O'Neill, great sence of humour, those farscape throwaways are not up to the job )