The Boston Globe ranks the top 50 sci-fi shows of all time

[Sava]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
How do you put multiple pics in one post?

you use the [ img ] tags

but that method requires you to link off-site images, you can't upload them from your hard drive

[MosesPresley]

Originally posted by Sava


you use the [ img ] tags

but that method requires you to link off-site images, you can't upload them from your hard drive

Thanks.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Thats because DS9 is a piece of crap.

Just for that, you deserve to be killed by the Dominion's shock troops, the Jem'Hadar, and replaced by a shape-shifting Founder.

Gatekeeper

[DRoseDARs]

I'd much rather see Nog kill him through the power of his shrill squeal.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by rah
One can always argue relative positions so the list isn't that bad. And yes ST: DS9 was the only one I couldn't stomach and had to stop watching.

Just for that, you deserve to be possessed by a Pah Wraith!

Gatekeeper

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by mactbone
Most people don't make the distinction between fantasy and sci-fi. Maybe they should've said Wildly Unlikely to Happen.

Why couldn't a show fit more than one category anyway? The Jetsons may be a cartoon but it's obviously set in the future with sprockets and space hats. The way you're trying to define Sci-Fi limits the genre to live action shows where future science was integral to the show.

At least it gets everyone talking about Sci-Fi in a major paper.

No television show that I've ever seen or heard about is Science Fiction. Period. (Well, the book definition anyway.)

It just doesn't translate well into the medium. A few movies manage it - but tv shows just don't handle it well, and audiences generally don't like it either.

Science Fiction is about the science - not the adventure, not the action, not the horor. The science has to be central to the story - the HOW of the science, not the WHAT of the science. Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Wil McCarthy, Robert Sawyer - they write (hard) Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov, on the other hand, wrote (soft) Science Fiction in most of his novels- sociology is the science at hand in his, more than the occasional physics that more often showed up in his shorter works. Foundation and Robots both were studying sociology - but that's no less a science than physics.

Star Trek, Dr. Who, and every Sci-Fi TV series I've ever heard of or watched, are adventure shows in space... which is fine by me, but it's not true science fiction.

Thus, as far as I'm concerned, Buffy is every bit as much science fiction as Star Trek.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper


Just for that, you deserve to be killed by the Dominion's shock troops, the Jem'Hadar, and replaced by a shape-shifting Founder.

Section 31 has already noticed his insults

[BeBMan]

I they ever make another star trek show I hope we get Aliens that do not all have the same haircut in one species

[Agathon]

Hard to disagree with Star Trek making number one.

But any show with ****ing MacGyver in it making the top 10 is just retarded.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Tingkai
The Boston Globe is ****:
a) because they didn't include The Prisoner in the top 50; and
b) because I have to edit their god awful **** writing.

I visisted some friends in Boston a few years ago and picked up a copy of the Globe. I thought that it must be a decent paper as they have a fair number of their stories and columnists published in other papers, and Boston is such an intellectual capital. Boy was I wrong. The paper was thin and the stories were crap. It couldn't hold a candle to either the Detroit Free Press or the Denver Post, two papers from the hinterlands which according to elitist tradition shouldn't be in the same league.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Agathon
Hard to disagree with Star Trek making number one.

But any show with ****ing MacGyver in it making the top 10 is just retarded.

That show being one of the few great sci-fi shows is rather amazing, too.

Hallowed are the Ori.

[Ming]

Here is a full copy of the list to "help' the discussion

1 Star Trek (Original)
2 Battlestar Galactica (New)
3 Star Trek: The Next Generation
4 The X-Files
5 Babylon 5
6 Stargate SG-1
7 The Twilight Zone
8 Dr. Who
9 Mystery Science Theater 3000
10 Sliders
11 Lost
12 Xena: Warrior Princess
13 The Outer Limits
14 Star Trek Voyager
15 Logan's Run
16 Flash Gordon
17 Firefly
18 V
19 Dark Angel
20 The Hitchhiker'
21 Quantum Leap
22 Andromeda
23 Tales from the Crypt
24 Wonder Woman
25 The Jetsons
26 Stargate Atlantis
27 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
28 Adventures of Superman
29 The Six Million Dollar Man
30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
31 Alien Nation
32 My Favorite Martian
33 Lost In Space
34 The Avengers
35 Battlestar Galactica (Original)
36 The Bionic Woman
37 Space 1999
38 Batman
39 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
40 The Thunderbirds
41 Futurama
42 Science Fiction Theatre
43 Nowhere Man
44 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
45 The Greatest American Hero
46 That Was Then
47 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
48 3rd Rock From The Sun
49 The Wild Wild West
50 Earth - Final Conflict

[ahasverus]

No Red Dwarf tsk tsk tsk

[Ming]

Originally posted by ahasverus
No Red Dwarf tsk tsk tsk

Yeah... that and Farscape. Especially considering some of the crap and short lived shows that made the list...

[Edan]

No Deep Space Nine, Blake's 7, No Sapphire & Steel, No Survivors, No Tripods, No Starcops.

What a crappy list.