Single Best Sci-Fi Television Moment . . . EVAR!?

[Mark]

Wow! Lots of great moments!

 

[Dark Psion]

The ending of Best of Both Worlds PArt 1.

Riker: "Fire"

Fade to black

Me: "Noooooooooooooooooo"

This one was compounded by my local station moving ST:TNG to Friday and not telling anyone!

I come in sweaty from just mowing the lawn, the TV just happened to be on the right channel and I catch the last 15 minutes with a look on my face.

BTW, it was repeated on Sunday and not moved again. They didn't need ratings to tell them how many people were watching TNG, I think each and every one called them.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

Best of all? Too hard. On top of the ones already stated...

In Stargate SG-1: "Weirder things have happened." "Name one!" "Well, the was the time he got really old. The time we became cavemen. The time we went back to the 60s."

That ties with the Colonel hitting his golf ball through the worm hole.

In Battlestar Galactica: Boomer tries to assassinate Adama.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow meets Doppelwillow in Doppelgangland.

In Firefly: The doctor's reaction to Jayne's hero status in the village.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation: The first sight of the new Romulan Warbird. Picard's defiance of his Cardassian interrogator. Q makes data laugh. Many others...

In Farscape: Young John loses his virginity. Crais sacrifices himself. John finally shows Scorpius what the wormhole weapon can do.

In Babylon 5: Londo shows obvious guilt when G'Kar displays signs of goodwill just before the Centauri are about to attack. Lenier has to confront his demons in the form of a very deceased Mr. Morden. Alfred Bester lets his young protege toss the non-telepath prisoner out an airlock. Sebastian tortures Delenn and Sheridan to find out the content of their character.

In Star Trek: DS9: Quark seduces his Klingon mistress with Worf's help, and inadvertantly get Jadzia and Worf together for the first time. Sisko hits Q. Sisko dreams of being a sci-fi writer in the 60s.

In the original Star Trek: Kirk and crew encounter the alternate universe of the Empire for the first time. Kirk and Spock play cat and mouse with the Romulans to steal a cloaking device.

In Max Headroom: One of the characters tries to trade a kid a non-volatile storage medium...very rare...called a "book."

In Red Dwarf: Lister walks around the ship, listing names while Holly keeps confirming that yes, everybody is dead. He finally asks where their bodies are after he has walked the whole ship tasting the piles of dust scattered about...

 

[ThirdWizard]

In Red Dwarf: Lister walks around the ship, listing names while Holly keeps confirming that yes, everybody is dead. He finally asks where their bodies are after he has walked the whole ship tasting the piles of dust scattered about...

Lister finding out he's his own father.

Lister finding out he's the Cat race's god and that they had a holy war about him.

Lister finding Kryten serving long dead people.

Gospacho soup.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'm not going to pick a favourite, but I'll throw some favourites out there.

Blake's 7, 'Orbit', where Avon, Vila, and ORAC are in a shuttle that's seventy kilos too heavy to escape a gravity well:
Avon: Not enough! Not nearly enough! Damn it, what weighs seventy kilos?
ORAC: Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon.

Firefly, 'Serenity, Part II', where Dobson has a gun to River's head, using her as a human shield:
Dobson: I'm not playing anymore.
Mal walks up the ramp.
Dobson: Anybody makes so much as a...

Stargate SG-1, '1969', where SG-1 appeared inside a secure US military facility in 1969:
US Soldier: [Something in Russian]
Daniel: Nyet.
Jack: Daniel?
Daniel: He just asked if we were Soviet spies. I just… oh.

Star Trek, The Next Generation, 'All Good Things, Part II', where the Pasteur is under heavy attack from Klingon ships. And then the Enterprise-D-of-the-future decloaks, with some godawful-normous underslung phaser cannon...
Admiral Riker: I had a feeling you weren't going to listen to me. Stand by whileI try to get the Klingons' attention...

-Hyp.

 

[Hammerhead]

I'm going to have to go with Craius's death scene at the end of season 3 in Farscape. It really demonstrates his growth as a person, and it's a great way to go. The only thing that would make it better is if he managed to kill Scorpius in the process.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Only one? Ain't no such animal. I'm up for several that have been mentioned, but I'll throw out another. The end of the Outer Limits episode 'The Glass Hand' when Robert Culp's character realizes that he's really a robot.

That was a great episode. They used the same building in Murphy's Law, IIRC.

 

[bodhi]

In Star Trek: The Next Generation: Picard's defiance of his Cardassian interrogator.

Oooh! "There. are. FOUR. lights!" Excellent episode.

Q makes data laugh.

Ah, you just reminded me of one of my favorite TNG moments. Well, not the series, but ST:Generations, so technically off-topic, but...
The command crew is in the holodeck celebrating Worf's promotion, in an Age of Sail setting. After Worf's dunking, Dr. Crusher, in trying to explain humor to Data, says "do something unexpected". He pauses, and pushes her off the ship. Brilliant! Geordi says "not funny", but YES IT IS! You just missed the setup!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Lister finding out he's his own father.

Lister finding out he's the Cat race's god and that they had a holy war about him.

Lister finding Kryten serving long dead people.

Gospacho soup.

Pretty much anything from the first 5 seasons could qualify in my book, i left them out of the running.

Unrumble!
Lister telling the story of his first kiss. "It was Uncle Frank...".

 

[Hypersmurf]

The command crew is in the holodeck celebrating Worf's promotion...

My favourite Worf moment?

"Sir, I must protest. I am not a Merry Man!"

(And, of course, "Ah, Worf. Eat any good books, lately?")

-Hyp.