space opera - clash of the tv titans!

[DaveCinzano]

Babylon 5 was crap

It barely lasted in comparison to the rest. Like that god awful Spaced winning that comedy poll

so bitter, so wrong

i note that despite having 5 series across the franchise, 'trek has only scored 2 votes thus far.

Its unfair to bridge all the Star Trek series together, as they differ greatly

no it's not unfair. this poll is about series with decent story arcs, good continuity, believable back story, plot development and characterisation.

 

[DexterTCN]

Red Dwarf
Star Trek - the animated adventures
Space 1999 (utter soap)
The Invaders (no real soapiness)
Star Cops

I'm a nerd?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Red Dwarf
Star Trek - the animated adventures
Space 1999 (utter soap)
The Invaders (no real soapiness)
Star Cops

I'm a nerd?

another one who can't read

disallowed:
'red dwarf' [reason: sitcom]

disallowed:
'star trek - the animated adventures' [reason: animated]

disallowed:
'the invaders' [reason: earth invasion not space opera]

 

[CyberRose]

I went for Star Trek cos really liked DS9

ps. Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit!

 

[Bajie]

hmm tricky.

But I would say Babylon 5, due to the whole shadow/vorlon (demons/angles)manipualting the galaxy for eons angle.. though Battlestar Galactica comes a close second, but it does not have quite the same glaxy wide, multiple-species and millon year stuggle that the first one does.

 

[Pingu]

iof the options ther

B5 gets my vote

though my all time fav (for quirkeyness and general weirdness too) is

Lexx

and it had a musical episode

and zev



I worship his shaddow...

 

[kyser_soze]

B5 is the one that's closest to a 'true' space opera, in the sense that there was a massive overarching storyline that encompassed the whole 5 seasons - and by that I don't mean the Enterprise 'boldly going' anywhere - the only Trek season to have a plot arc like B5 is DS9 - S1, TBG, Voyager all had an overall theme, but not a defining plot arc. Enterprise could never decide whether it was one or the other which was it's main problem.

Andromeda - references philosophy, features hi-tech post-war 'find the goodies' stuff, and is the only US TV series here to really feature AI n any meaningful (abnd sexy) way. Arguably the ORAC, the LIberator and Slave were all AIs but Dromy is AI in the Iain M Banks sense that it's a ship with a mind (but not like the Lexx which AFAIK is some kind of bio-mech creature, and it requires Pilot to fly it...or is that Farscape?)

Would have been Gene Rodenberry's most amazing creation - the Andromeda universe is (IMO) far more sci-fi that Trek. Unfortunately, budgets and Kevin Sorbo put paid to any chance it had of getting anywhere. My favourite eps would have to be the one about the battle that started the galactic civil war off and where the pilot chick uses some serious ass drugs to try and fly the Andromeda to some mythical old tech planet (sorry, no ep guide to hand!!)

I'd go for B5 and Andromeda, with honourable mentions to Andromeda (for concept rather than execution) and Farscape. Trek is just in a class of it's own.

Rommie, avatar of starship The Andromeda Ascendant

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

it takes anime to make sexy ai/robots a genre

 

[Belushi]

Farscape without a doubt, get beyond the muppets and it was the cleverest, funniest and darkest series sci-fi series ever.

 

[kyser_soze]

it takes anime to make sexy ai/robots a genre

What?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

a silly comment on the number of robot girls in anime

it is practically a genre

 

[kyser_soze]

AHHH, I see.

 

[redsquirrel]

I think the last three seasons of Farscape were all excellent (first is pretty ropey). B5 is about equal for me. Blakes Seven was both brillaint and rubbish at the same time. Star Trek - depends on the series. TOS easily the best (even excepting the dreadful episodes it had), TNG - ok but two mush soap opera shit, and crap about Data trying to be human, DS9 - started terribly and got better and better best series ending definately though it had some shit characters (Odo springs to mind), Voyager - rubbish nonsense, there's no crew in the world that wouldn't have mutined against Janeway, Enterprise - crap first two seasons better in the third tho still not brilliant.

 

[ginger_syn]

B5 has to be my favourite , the 5 year plotline meant there was no flailing about for good story to keep it going and the fact there was a good dose of fantasy syle plotline in there kept me happy as a fan of both. Crusade was a disapiontment though.

 

[kyser_soze]

Crusade never really got off the ground tho - I was less than impressed that they significantly changed elements of the story from the 'Pilot' movie. It introduced a lot of interesting elements from B5, and it would've been cool finding out more about the Telepath War (I suspect at some point we'd have bumped into the human WMD Lyta Alexander and G'Kar)...better effects as well