Best Sci-Fi television series EVAR!

[Mark]

The jury is still out on some of those currently running but I'd be inclined to give the nod to ST: TNG (with an obligatory nod to the original) for bringing the Sci-Fi magic back to television. It seemed to come along after a semi-drought comprised mostly of poor quality shows (though there were a few good ones mixed in there)...

 

[KenM]

Best Sci-fi on TV ever? Babylon 5, hands down. Nothing else comes close.

 

[Staffan]

Babylon 5 for me too. If Firefly hadn't been cancelled, it would probably have displaced B5 - not one of the 11 episodes was bad, which is a better track record than B5 had in the first season.

 

[tetsujin28]

Outer Limits. The original, not the silly thing that's on now. Way better than Twilight Zone, and too often ignored.

 

[NiTessine]

Babylon 5. Nothing else I've seen comes even close.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

First couple seasons of X-Files. One of the only monster-of-the-week kind of shows (other than Buffy and Angel, of course) that held my interest.

Never got into B5. Acting seemed really bad. Basic cable bad.

 

[S'mon]

B5 had the best plots; certainly Season 4 was great; Season 5 suffered because its story arc had already been used up in season 4. B5 did suffer from wooden acting by the human characters, Londo & G'kar had fine actors. STTNG had some very good acting (esp Patrick Stewart), some good plots and some poor ones, but does stand well above the other Trek sequels IMO.

For basically starting an entire genre though, my vote for greatest TV sf series would go to Star Trek TOS. Even though I'm more a Blake's 7 man myself.

 

[John Crichton]

With all respect to Star Trek, Next Gen and DS9 I have to give the nod to Farscape. Main character deaths, great badguys and even better heroes. The plots were just simply awesome. Firefly had the potential to be as great as Trek and Farscape, but it wasn't to be I guess.

Does my bias show?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I really don't think I can choose just one. For me it would be a toss up between Babylon 5, Farscape, Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG.

 

[jonesy]

Stargate SG-1 or Babylon 5. There's no way I could say the other is better than the other.