SG1 is great. Can’t wait for the last couple of series to finally show on channel 4 over here.
I used to love Babylon 5 and thought Farscape was pretty good as well (although it lost me for a season or 2 in the middle).
Didn’t mind Enterprise but I think it was a wasted opportunity that they could have done a lot more with. A poor effort after the excellence of Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager.
Enterprise was crap (and that’s coming from a dedicated Trekkie).
The continuty was all gummed up, histories were rewritten, and I blame Brannon Braga; he’s gone to the dark side.
The original premise behind Enterprise was a great idea…but it was twisted into something that was only done for the sake of making a buck.
Rather than rant to heavily, I’ll just say that I consider Enterprise to be “non-cannon” Trek, and merely the most successful piece of “fan-fiction” ever created in the Trek universe.
It’s funny because I found DS9 boring to death, I thought Voyager was very, very bad, with the annoying Neelix character, Seven of Nine-I-am-a-model-with-boobs-turned-borg and so on. But I love Enterprise. I think it was because of the characters, and I was in love with T’Pol, but I guess she was just a model-with-boobs turned Vulcan.
Uh, are you having a mental dichotomy?
for all it’s failings, Voyager didn’t tread all over the franchise’s established history and lay waste to thirty years of bulding that history…
Maybe you’re just not a real Trek fan
At one time or another, I both enjoyed and was also disappointed by all of the Trek series. But never to the point of arguing over continuity and revision of history etc. It was just a TV show!
Exactly! I loved the original ST when I was young, but now it makes me cringe. I enjoyed Next Gen at first, but soon became bored. The rest (DS9, Voyager, Enterprise) just never interested me.
My all-time favorite SF TV shows are Firefly and Babylon 5; I have them both on DVD. Farscape, Stargate SG1 and others that I’ve tried to watch just didn’t measure up.
I haven’t seen the new Battlestar Galactica, so I can’t comment on it. (I didn’t like the original BSG, so I ignored the new BSG when it came out. Now, I’m so far behind I doubt I’ll bother trying to catch up.)
I haven’t seen the new Battlestar Galactica, so I can’t comment on it. (I didn’t like the original BSG, so I ignored the new BSG when it came out. Now, I’m so far behind I doubt I’ll bother trying to catch up.)
The whole thing is available on dvd. I’ve rented them all from netflix. There is a pilot episode, then season 1.
Tony
My reason for mentioning it was that I got mixed up with figuring out what to rent. I watched the pilot, then disc 2 of season one, so I saw disc 1/season 1 out of sequence, which enraged me.
You need to rent the pilot, then disc1/season1, etc. Seems obvious in retrospect.
Tony