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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2186392" data-attributes="member: 707">Best SF:1.  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  This is Star Trek at its best.  Season- and Series-long story arcs, non-regulars with depth and background (Garrick, Gul Ducat, Kai Wyn...) intriguing philosophical premises ("Wormhole aliens or Gods?", "Can you be a religious savior of a religion you don't believe in?" etc.) and lots of space combat thrown in for good measure.  Absolutely fantastic.2.  Farscape.  This show has a great mixture of character-driven plot and wild off-the-cuff style.  I thought the acting was pretty good, and the universe interesting and exciting.3.  The Twilight Zone (original).  The greatest.  Rod Serling was a genius, pure and simple.  The only reason is isn't #1 is because I like story arcs.  But every episode of TZ is fantastic.4.  Earth: Final Conflict (Boone seasons).  People have bashed this show a lot upthread, but I thought the first seasons of this show were fantastic.  The Taelons are one of the few alien races that truly feels alien, and the show had a wonderful story arc that made the viewer wonder how things were going to turn out.  Where were Da'an's loyalties?  What secrets were they hiding from humanity?  What were they running from?  Unfortunately it all turned to crap in later seasons when the producers decided to abandon the story arc format for self-contained episodes of general worthlessness, and killed off Boone, the character around whom the entire show revolved.5.  X-Files.  I'm not a fan of the series story arc about the alien invasion, but I think the individual episodes are some of the best sci-fi out there, almost like modern Twilight Zone episodes.  A lot of them are extremely well-written and acted.  I've often wished a series would come out that treats magic in the same way.Extra:  I've heard good things about Babylon 5, and seen a few great episodes (the Sheridan torture eps. was almost as good as the Picard torture eps. from ST:TNG), but didn't ever get the chance to watch the whole series, so it didn't make my list.  I loved Firefly but don't think I can judge it against complete series, when only six episodes aired.  I also liked Dark Angel and the episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica that I've seen, though they're not Top 5 material (though BG may make it when the series is complete.)Worst SF:1.  Star Trek: Voyager.  It had a few good episodes (I loved the one with the Saurians and their refusal to admit they had migrated from another planet, rather than been born in their sector of space, as their religion claimed,) but on the whole was utter garbage.2.  Mutant X.  A twisted, commercialized take on the X-Men.  Gather a bunch of beautiful but untalented actors together, put them in black leather and give them horrible scripts.  Fantastic!  Mutant X shares a special place in my heart because my mom often accidentally taped it for me instead of The Pretender while I was in Japan.  ARGH!3.  Stargate: SG-1.  I'm sorry, I know a lot of people like this show, but the more I watch it, the more I consider it crap.  The production design is fantastic, but the scripts and characters are garbage.  How on Earth I'm supposed to believe that the fate of the world rests in the hands of Jack O'Neill I will never understand.  And that's only the beginning of the hokiness the audience is expected to swallow.4.  The Twilight Zone (new).  No original concepts, combined with the most awful host I could have imagined for the show = teh suck.5.  Nightman.  Possibly the worst superhero show I've ever seen.</blockquote>

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