Best Sci-Fi television series EVAR!

I vote for ST DS9.

Tsyr said:
Space: Above and Beyond rocked. Plain and simple. I only wish it had run longer.

That's Fox for ya. I can't for the life of me understand why they insist on having shows on at 7:00pm during the NFL season. They get preempted half the time and I'm firmly convinced this is a major reason, if not the the reason, that Space: AaB and Futurama died. How can a show build and keep an audience if it's not on consistently?
 

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Tsyr said:
A strong contender for me was Earth: Final Conflict, but I know it got a lukewarm reception from a lot of people...
I loved the first season of E:FC. The show really lost alot when they killed off Boone at the end of the first season. The new main lead (Liam?) was good but the show was never the same to me. I think I stopped watching after season.
 

Welverin said:
That's Fox for ya. I can't for the life of me understand why they insist on having shows on at 7:00pm during the NFL season. They get preempted half the time and I'm firmly convinced this is a major reason, if not the the reason, that Space: AaB and Futurama died. How can a show build and keep an audience if it's not on consistently?

I can't speak for Space: AaB, but as for Futurama there are a couple reasons for it. This is just stuff I have read over the past year or so. Futurama was supposed to be placed after the Simpsons at 8:30 on Sundays. Which it was for a fairly short time. Then it was shuttled over to Tuesday evenings. Matt Groening fought them to get it back on Sunday nights. This is when it landed in the horrid 7PM time slot. So the whole time/day jump thing hurt it and then ending up in the 7PM Sunday slot, is the final nail.

Oh and on topic. I can not beleive I forgot to put Stargate: SG-1 on my list.
 

Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
Another vote for Farscape here.

Oh, and an unrelated(sort of) question about Firefly. I caught a few episodes(loved it), but how long did it run in the USA? From what I'm told, its running very strong in Britain....
Only 13 eps (or something like that) were made and the US saw 10 of them. It ran until the first week of December 2002. The 3 unaired eps are on the DVD due out in December.
 

paulewaug said:
I loved Farscape and I think that the season before the last just got too wierd and killed the show, although the final season was mostly fantastic, very sad to see it go.
Season 3 was too weird? It may have been odd but it was the best out of all the seasons. It wrapped up things all the way back from Season One and sorta hit the reset button. If anything hurt Farscape it was SciFi not running any reruns during the times when the show was in-between seasons and bits of time for production. Also, what hurt it was the crummy time slot along with the shifting schedule. And the 4th season took a bit too long to really get going. It floundered around for a while before getting to the good stuff around episode 12.

The production team/SciFi didn't help themselves by having huge (something like 9 month) gaps right in the middle of seasons for new eps. SciFi should have been doing reruns during that time. That's how I caught up before season 2 started. It's not like any of their other programming was blowing people away.

Damn. I ranted again.

To digress - Umbran said it right when there doesn't have to be just the one. I know my tastes change with the seasons and I'm hoping something will come along that gets my mind off the shows of old. All the shows mentioned I think were great in there own way. There were some low points but overall they have served as a foundation for whatever is coming next, whatever that may be...
 

Psychotic Dreamer said:
IThis is just stuff I have read over the past year or so. Futurama was supposed to be placed after the Simpsons at 8:30 on Sundays. Which it was for a fairly short time.

Yep, I remember that as well. It always did belong right next to the Simpsons, and I recall when it was on at 8:30 TV Guide called it the best two hours of television (or maybe just SUnday nights), with the Simpsons, Futurama, and then the X-files. Only think I can think of at the moment from recent history not sports related would be Buffy-Angel.
 

Welverin said:
I vote for ST DS9.
Thank you. When I posted the 1st "DS9" vote I half expected to be run out of town. It is nice to know I am not alone. I imagine that once TNT begins to air DS9 on a daily basis, and new viewers will get a chance to see it (or old viewers see it in a new context), that its popularity will increase.
 

Silver Moon said:

Thank you. When I posted the 1st "DS9" vote I half expected to be run out of town. It is nice to know I am not alone. I imagine that once TNT begins to air DS9 on a daily basis, and new viewers will get a chance to see it (or old viewers see it in a new context), that its popularity will increase.

For what it's worth, DS9 is my second favorite Star Trek, comming in not too far behind TNG. I think DS9 got off to a rocky start at first, not knowing what it really wanted to be, but after the first season or two, it got much better.
 

While I wouldn't consider myself a huge DS9 fan I will say that they had many, many more excellent epsidoes than Voyager or Enterprise have had. Of the Trek series' however I would have to rank it third behind TOS and TNG (in that order - what can I say I loooove Kirk, Scotty, Bones and Spock!)
 
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Psychotic Dreamer said:

Oh and on topic. I can not beleive I forgot to put Stargate: SG-1 on my list.

Me too... add that to my honourable mentions list.

It's got a very well-developed universe... when you can have a conversation where only half the words are English, you know they've done something right, eh, tau'ri? Plus it's cool and stuff. And I've always been impressed with the effects...
 

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