Star Trek..The TSD Generation...

Nice! Maybe Westley can join in the airlock excursion.

 

Wesley should have been escorted out an airlock before the pilot aired, or lost in an unfortunate transporter 'accident'.

 

Maybe send him back to the original series wearing a red shirt.

 

That would have been an AWESOME (and fitting) plot! *clappity clappity*

 

You guys missed a few SciFi TV series like Andromeda, Earth Finale Conflict, Space Above and Beyond and some of the older SciFi TV shows like Space 1999 and Logan's Run.

My top 15 SciFi TV series are: Was just going to do 10 but I am to big a SciFi Freak.

1. Andromeda
2. Babylon 5
3. Space Above and Beyond
4. Farscape
5. Stargate SG1
6. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7. Star Trek (TOS)
8. Star Trek Deep Space Nine
9. Battlestar Glactica (TOS)
10. New Battlestar Galactica
11. V (TOS)
12. New V
13. Torchwood
14. Planet of the Apes
15. Mork and Mindy

 

I recently saw two versions of the original pilot of LIS and was surprised how the character of Dr. Smith was altered as the series went on. At the very start, he was portrayed almost as a super villain, but as the seasons progressed, they seemed to soften his character quite a bit...

 

The million dollar question is- of these shows, which ones show bathrooms and/or crying children w/ poopy diapers? I know the new BSG did. But then, that series showed guys shaving with Merkur razors and straights.

 

While there's maybe some crappy casting on certain shows, sci-fi is usually laboratory sterile and not necessarily about poopy diapers lol..though there have been shots of the head of sorts in the holding cells in various more recent ST episodes. And what does BSG stand for?..

 

It's like that new baby book: Everyone Poops (Except in the Future). Or, like I was told when I was just little, "Women don't fart. They just get to their 40s and suddenly explode."

My guess is that BSG = Battle Star Galactica

 

Thanks. I do remember some fairly grotty, less than sterile scenes of the "down below" from that original series...Edit..oop's that was in Babylon 5...

 

Didn't catch much of the newer version of that series, but it's interesting about the razors...

 

No love for Firefly?

You make that sound like that's bad thing.

 

No kidding! Firefly belongs on there, although if memory serves, it is a non-bathroom, no diapers SF show.

And for the record, I loved the new Battestar Galactica (BSG). I was super thrilled to see them using DE razors. I've never used a straight, but I've read that they were shaving "wrong" with them. That show also included crying children in the plot. It's the show I was thinking of when I managed to wrangle this thread onto this topic.

I do seem to remember that Babylon 5 showed bathrooms, but no crying children. I think the new BSG is the only one on that list that has the bathrooms and the crying munchkins.

 

Oh, I am a Brown Coat at heart (Firefly Fan) but I didn't won't to drag the list on and on. lol And I didn't even get into the Comic Boook style shows like Smallville and Heroes or the Fantasy ones like Legend of the Seeker, Game of Thrones or True Blood.

 

Richgem's whimsy about being an old time radio actor reminded me of the now infamous Mercury Theater radio broadcast produced by Orson Wells on Halloween 1938. The show was fashioned as a series of very realistic news bulletins based on H.G Well's classic War of the Worlds on the subject of a Martian invasion force apparently taking over the earth. The production caused quite a stir as people who had tuned in in the middle of the broadcast reacted in utter panic at the news of the alleged Martian invasion. Here's some background and the post broadcast apology rendered at the time by Mr. Wells http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds.html

 

"A large percentage of the CBS audience believed the reports to be real, and Alexander Woolcott later sent a telegram to Welles: "This only goes to prove, my beamish boy, that the intelligent people were all listening to the dummy [Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy], and that all the dummies were listening to you." Ironically, Orson Welles later became a regular on The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show, playing Charlie's nemesis as W. C. Fields had in the 1930s."

 

I love this pic!








Robby later grew up to be a shoe salesman...

 

TV shows including Sci fi ones, generally, have limited lifespans and inevitably, sooner or later, are doomed to that fate. The only Sci fi series that seems to have overcome the programming odds..spanning the decades and multiple generations and re-generations, is the venerable Dr. Who. The original Stargate series did hold out for ten years and further in the Stargate Atlantis incarnation.. not sure if they're still producing that one. I was able to catch the most recent Atlantis with Robert Picardo of ST fame and they seemed to have spruced up the offshoot from the days of it's inception.. was quite watchable...

 

They cancelled Stargate Atlantis awhile back. I think it's finale was back in early 2009.

And to be fair, even Dr. Who has had its share of ups and downs. You didn't have much going on from 1989 until 2005, other than one TV movie in the mid-90s. But, yeah, Dr. Who has faired better than anything else. The only other Sci-fi series or franchise that even comes close to having that kind of durability and staying power is Star Trek.