I used to watch the old ones of "Enterprise" and still like them.
STARWARS FOREVER!!!! My absolute fav! I love the three "old" episodes
, I also like "Episode 1" alot. 
Don't think that "Episode 2" is as good... 
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| Posted by: Annabelle 26-Mar-2004, 10:04 PM |
| Who likes Sci-Fi? I noticed alot of us have the same interests and wondered does anyone else like science fiction? I liked Star Wars. Not as crazy about the newer ones as much as the older ones. I love Star Trek. Love the old ones, new generation and John Luc Picard.....o, yea! Love him! Now we have the new "Enterprise" and it's beginning to grow on me too. I love Star Gate, it's one of my favorites! (we have it here on Monday's beginning at 6:00 til 11:00 of the re-runs) and then we have it on for 2 hours Friday nights. I am always watching it. Richard Dean Anderson cracks me up all of the time. His sarcastic dry humor makes me explode with laughter. And his timing, too much! I really liked the Predator, both movies. Some people I've met over the years do not like Sci-Fi at all. How about you? |
| Posted by: gaberlunzie 26-Mar-2004, 11:48 PM |
| I like "StarGate", the movie, not so much the series. I used to watch the old ones of "Enterprise" and still like them. STARWARS FOREVER!!!! My absolute fav! I love the three "old" episodes , I also like "Episode 1" alot. Don't think that "Episode 2" is as good... |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 27-Mar-2004, 12:21 AM |
| I personally have some very fond memories of "Star Gate". And NO, not the Adult rated type either. I have been a long time Trekie and love the Star Wars Movies. I use to watch Battlestar Galactica every week along with Buck Roger. There is a program on Thursday Nights at 10:00 on the Sci-Fi Channel that I watch and that is Scare Tactics. But over all my all time Favorite has to be X-Files. |
| Posted by: kidclaymore 27-Mar-2004, 02:04 AM |
| I love pretty much anything at sci-fi. But Star Trek is my favorite, I'm a original trekie. I have been watching Star Trek since 1965 when it first came on. |
| Posted by: maisky 27-Mar-2004, 06:45 AM |
| I have been a sci fi fan most of my life, both book and film. I watch the stargate series now. This is the ONLY series I watch regularly. The thing I would observe over the years, is that Sci Fi has a hard time keeping up with scientific developments. Many times truth is stranger than fiction. |
| Posted by: peckery 27-Mar-2004, 09:03 AM | ||
Tribbles and Hortas rock!!!!  |
| Posted by: peckery 27-Mar-2004, 09:08 AM |
| I love GOOD scifi. About the fourth season of Star Trek NG, I started getting anoid by the bad writing. They tried to make up for this with big putty headed aliens. I got burned out on the Putty Heads. I prefer scifi where the tech is not the story, just part of the setting as far as when story is taking place. They don't need to spend $1,000,000 to come up with the salt shaker of the future. |
| Posted by: Dreamer1 27-Mar-2004, 09:57 AM | ||
Ahhh, a true Dr. Who fan!! We love watching all the old Dr. Who videos! You guys haven't mentioned Babylon 5, yet, either. Another great show! Yep, we're die-hard Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans, too.  Dreamer1 |
| Posted by: Annabelle 27-Mar-2004, 11:40 AM |
| I never seemed to be able to get into Babylon series. And I'm having trouble watching the Andramedia series. Doesn't really interest me I guess. |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 27-Mar-2004, 12:04 PM |
| B5 rocked! I still want to track down one of the only episodes I missed part of. It was just before Kash came out, of his suit the first time, Delenn is standing in a garden, it's lit as of at night... I missed the beginning of this episode, but it struck a chord with me just the same as a really good, sad song does. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Saphoo that throughts aquire speed, the lips aquire a stain, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." "And now, the prophecy. One, will come. A voice from the outer world, bringing the holy war, Jihad; which will clense the universe and bring us, out of darkness" I grew up watching Dune, and can now quote it as well as most can quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Haven't watched the new ones yet though ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Think it's time to work on a legal collection of all the Star Trek movies. I've got one of them, and copies of some of the others. I was just quoting it to mom earlier. "He was part of the free speach movement at Berkley. I think he did a little too much LDS." "I beamed them over to the klingon ship sir, where there'll be no tribble a'tall." I'd also like to get a collection of TNG on video =) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Star Wars is great! The new ones aren't as good as the originals though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spaceballs the Flame Thrower!!! The Radar sir, it's lost the bleeps, the sweeps, abd the creaps. The what the what and the what? you know, the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creaps That's not all he's lost LUDICROUS SPEED! GO!!!! My brains... are going into... my feet... "THAT was my virgin alarm. It's programmed to go off before you do." Who made that man a gunner I did sir, he's my cousin. Who is he He's an a**hole sir I know that! What's his name that is his name sir. Major a**hole and him Private first class Phillip A**hole How many A**holes do we have on this ship anyway?!? HAIL SIR! I knew it! I'm surrounded by A**holes Keep firing, A**hole! |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 27-Mar-2004, 06:31 PM |
My Son and I absolultly love "Spaceballs". My Wife on the other hand thinks that we are insane for liking it.  But we think that "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" is Great too. It must be her.  |
| Posted by: corrigan 27-Mar-2004, 08:01 PM |
| I love Sci Fi! Love: Star Gate & SG1 Anything Trek, I too have watched it since the '60s. I have even been to conventions. B5 Battlestar Gallactica, especially the new mini series. They're going to turn it into a new series, yay!!! X-men Honor Harrington novels Miles Vorkosigan novels Almost anything by Heinlein Anything by Asimov (except the last Foundation novel) Firefly, I hope they bring it back! The list goes on and on... Did anyone see the pilot for Century City, I thought it was pretty good - LA Law in 2030 |
| Posted by: Knightly Knight 27-Mar-2004, 11:50 PM |
| Captain Kirk and Captain Jean Luc Pecard both were Shakespearian actors, One was very very Good and One was very very BAD. You decide. |
| Posted by: Irish Stepper 28-Mar-2004, 07:30 AM |
I love Stargate and SG1. I like the X-men movies (and will even watch the cartoons with the kids ). I used to watch a series called Mutant X that is similar to X-men, but the station around here stopped playing it.  I like the original 3 Star Wars movies, and I love Star Trek Next Generation and the ones after that. I don't much like the originals. I also loved X-Files...that one was the best.  |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 28-Mar-2004, 08:12 AM |
| I don't read much, but Ray Bradbury is great! |
| Posted by: gaberlunzie 28-Mar-2004, 01:37 PM |
| You promise not to laugh???? Okay then, just out of interest,,, Did anyone else read "Perry Rhodan"? I was 13 years old when it started and I loved it. I used to follow it for quite a couple of years. Gee, my Mum was scared that I was reading that "trash" (quote Mum) but I was hooked. We were some "hard core" fans in my class and we dealt with this subject very, very seriously! |
| Posted by: Shamalama 29-Mar-2004, 07:04 AM |
| I have always been a Trekkie. I prefer Kirk over Picard. I did watch the '80's show Buck Rogers, but only because of Col. Deering. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/clare.dell/eringrey/erin02.jpg I liked the first three Star Wars in the '70's-'80's. The recent ones didn't grab me as much. Stargate is good, although the movie was much better. |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 29-Mar-2004, 07:11 AM | ||
I remember why now, why I liked that show so much. Bruce Boxlightner was not my reason either. Wasn't Col. Deering, Linda Gray or Grey? |
| Posted by: maisky 29-Mar-2004, 07:46 AM | ||
It's fortunate that your wife's lack of taste in entertainment is made up for by her good taste in men. |
| Posted by: Shamalama 29-Mar-2004, 09:45 AM |
| Richard, it was Erin Grey. http://www.eringray.com/ |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 29-Mar-2004, 10:11 AM | ||||
Yep, that is her. , Thank you Shamalama. 
Thank you Maisky, I do have to admit she does have a Great Taste in Men. |
| Posted by: Eamon 29-Mar-2004, 10:16 AM | ||
Ditto, except for the Scare Tactics. Wish I had more time to watch the new Trek and Star Gate stuff. Eamon |
| Posted by: tsargent62 29-Mar-2004, 10:29 AM |
| LOVE Sci-Fi! Big Trek fan, all series. Bummed out that Farscape is off the air. I always thought it was great. Like SG-1. I do like Andromida. Alas, I'm the only sci-fi freak in the family. My wife will watch some with me, but rolls her eyes at the rest saying, "Well this is stupid." Poor girl. Doesn't know what she's missing! Huge fan of the X-Files. I used to have a big crush on Gillian Anderson. Guys, check out her webs site and look at the pics. Tres sexy! http://www.gilliananderson.ws |
| Posted by: Blue_Rogue 29-Mar-2004, 01:28 PM |
| Sci-Fi?!! Boy, someone pulled on my heart strings!!! Hard core Sci-Fi fan here! As far as TV goes, original Star Trek and Babylon 5!! I could list a ton of movies. But books, I no longer have a dinning room, its now the library. Asimov is my favorite. |
| Posted by: Richard Bercot 29-Mar-2004, 03:39 PM | ||
What do you mean you use to have a crush on Gillian Anderson, I still do. I see that they are in the works for "X-Files 2". That is one I would definatly would go and see, even if my Wife doesn't go. |
| Posted by: Cpl. A.J. 29-Mar-2004, 06:54 PM |
| Yep, count me in; another SF fanatic here. In addition to loving SF, I'm also a published SF writer -- two novels, and 13 or 14 short stories. (Do a Google on "A.J. Austin" to find them.) I'm hooked on most TV SF... all the Treks (although "Enterprise" is growing tedious and isn't, frankly, all that good; still watch it every week, though), B5, the recent Battlestar Galactica movie on SciFi Channel. My personal favorite over the last few years was "Firefly," which got a real screw job by Fox (showed the episodes out of order, stuck it in a death-slot at 10pm on Friday nights, and pulled the plug with three unaired episodes). It was some of the best-written and best-produced SF on the air. There were no rubber-forehead aliens, no laser blasters, and -- guess what! -- no sound in space. Excellent series that should have aired for years if only the suits at Fox had a brain among them. A.J. |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 29-Mar-2004, 09:38 PM |
| Well, I have to admit that I'm rather fond of Space Operas, in general. The ... argh, what's it called? The series of books, Insurrection, Crusade, In Death Ground, and The Shiva Option, all by David Weber (Honor Harriongton fame) and Steve White. GREAT space operas. HUGE space battles, with immensely powerful weapons and ships that are remarkably feeble without their shields. So wonderful! And then there's the Posleen War series, by John Ringo. A Hymn Before Battle (the best, probably), Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, and Hell's Faire. Only haven't read the last one. Need to. Gotta love the Hitchhiker books, too. Star Wars novels are (well, were, I haven't read any since a bit before the new publisher got them) fun, moreso than I've found the Star Trek ones, as a whole (Kahless and Sarek excepted. Good books), though the newer ones are branching to new characters, for a change. Could be very good. I've got a character in an IRC Star Trek sim (http://www.ucip.org). Fun, but I need to show more. Sad, too, I'm the ships engineer (and an E-3, to boot). Seeing as I love Space Operas, I'm betting I'd really enjoy Babylon 5, if I got into it. I do enjoy Stargate (the movie) and SG-1. SG-1 is fun. And endorsed by the USAF. Very cool. Love all the Star Trek shows from TNG on. TNG.... had Patrick Stewart. He's a spectacular actor. Avery Brooks (DS9, I'm sure you know) is great speaker. And Voyager's Kate Mulgrew was pretty good, too. I'm currently impressed with Scott Bakula. He's doing a nice job. And he did happen to suit that cowboy outfit from "North Star" rather well. Very well, in fact. Hehe, Enterprise's uniforms make me think of teh 'modern' ST engineering work jumpsuits. Pretty much the same thing. 'Cept that Enterprise's aren't bright yellow. Back to novels... I've read, and enjoy, the ABCs of Sci-Fi: Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. Asimov's R. Daneel Olivaw books, the Foundation Saga (in which I seem to see a link to the Olivaw books), Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451, and Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heinlein's good, too. I love Red Planet and Starship Troopers. Very good books. Should read more of his, too. Have to finish my George R.R. Martin books, though (Song of Ice and Fire series. Starting w/ A Game of Thrones. Currently stuck on A Storm of Swords... dark, not in the mood). And I just recently went to a local, small Sci-Fi con. That's a blast. I should mention, I thoroughly enjoy all the Star Wars movies. Yes, the original three probably top the new three (still waiting on Ep 3....), but I do enjoy them. Phantom Menace wasn't as bad as everyone says, IMO... I found it entertaining, and had to expectations, so I wasn't bitter. Ep 2 was a very nice improvement, too. Darker side of SW, kinda like ESB. Still and all, I think my favorite is RotJ. Something so classic about it, especially the fight on Jabba's barge. That was soo very good. Mmmmm, Sci-Fi. Love it. |
| Posted by: Annabelle 29-Mar-2004, 10:57 PM |
| Celtwolf I'm glad you are helping keep Sci-fi alive! Some people are just turned off to sci-fi. Don't understand that. Maybe they don't have much imagination? Never have understood that. My best friend hates anything sci-fi. She says it isn't real. I told her only cause she isn't going to live to see it doesn't mean it will never be real one day... Annabelle |
| Posted by: maisky 30-Mar-2004, 07:46 AM |
| Just look at the predictions of HG Wells and Orwell (1984). They were so accurate it's scary. |
| Posted by: Annabelle 30-Mar-2004, 07:49 AM |
| Yea, H G Wells was way ahead of his time. Good Morning Trouble! |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 07:59 AM |
| It's amazing how much of sci-fi is based on either scientific fact or prediction. NASA is actually researching whether or not warp fields are possible. They have taken many cues from the minds of sci-fi writers for ideas. All the stuff in books, movies and TV series may not be real -- YET -- but you never know! |
| Posted by: maisky 30-Mar-2004, 08:58 AM |
| If you look at sci fi books written before 1990, you will see that it is a struggle for sci fi to KEEP UP with scientific advances. An example would be the powered suits in Starship Troupers (the book). That is currently under development and scaleup. |
| Posted by: Annabelle 30-Mar-2004, 09:06 AM |
| Remember when they were sending a Monkey to space? Yep, I hate to brag but that was Peckery! His space suit is still hanging in our closet here in the treehouse! |
| Posted by: peckery 30-Mar-2004, 09:35 AM |
| Sockfi? |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 09:42 AM |
| Best sci-fi mini-series ever: Taken on the SciFi channel. Dakota Fanning was amazing. |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 30-Mar-2004, 12:08 PM |
| Oh, I'm thoroughly addicted to Sci-Fi. Love it. Too many people forget about Suspension of Disbelief when they view entertainment. Sure, Warp Drive isn't viable now, but that really means nothing. We couldn't even manage powered flight 105 years ago, and now we've got a fighter that's almost in 'mass' production that's cruising speed is supersonic. Doesn't need afterburners to do it, like all our current ones, it cruises up there. Amazing! Never mind that we've successfully landed mobile craft on other planets... How can Sci-Fi die, when we can have such incredible technological advances in the course of a single century? I can't wait until they figure out what they need to do to get processors faster and smaller... Far as I know, the current hold up is that the transistors are so small that they're not acting normally, not obeying normal physics... which, I'm told, happens when things get to a small enough scale. |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 12:33 PM |
| Celtwolf, right now they're working on quantum computers. The idea is instead of using transistors as gates they use single molecules. If its charge its negative, the value is 0. If it's positive, its value is 1. And, if I'm not mistaken, quantum mechanics says that a single atom (or is it molecule) can be in 2 states at once. I know I'm not explaining it very well. The main point I'm trying to make is that within 10 to 15 years we will have computers that don't even resemble what we know today. |
| Posted by: maisky 30-Mar-2004, 12:49 PM |
| look at what they do with computers now: cellphones that are more powerfull than the old univac mainframes. The only real limit to the devices now is the I/O hardware: accessing the processor and the screen. Progress is ongoing in making the next step, which is direct neural hookup. No external hardware other than wireless routers needed. Everything is hardwired into our person. Picture sitting in a boooooorrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnggggg meeting, looking interested while actually watching a movie. |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 12:55 PM |
| It's closer than u think. Scientists have gotten a monkey to move a bionic arm with its mind. There is a wire implanted somewhere in its brain. Somehow they were able to train the monkey to move the arm. It's not fine movement, but movement nonetheless. The company who's doing the experiments has applied to the FDA for permission to start working with human subjects. Eventually they want to implant a wireless transmitter so wires are unncessary. Cool stuff! Cool implications. |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 01:01 PM |
| Another cool recent technological innovation: a 4 GB hard drive the size of a quarter. Toshiba unveiled this tiny marvel just this month. Imagine. You could have more storage in a wrist watch than you had in a high powered workstation 10 years ago. Amazing. It's this kind of stuff that makes me glad to be working in IT. |
| Posted by: maisky 30-Mar-2004, 01:03 PM | ||
In the transition from a monkey as a subject to humans, perhaps they could use an intermediate subject: a certain sock monkey......... |
| Posted by: tsargent62 30-Mar-2004, 01:04 PM | ||
Think about what you're asking. Could you imagine the 6 Million Dollar Peckery? Chilling. |
| Posted by: maisky 30-Mar-2004, 01:07 PM |
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| Posted by: CeltWolf 30-Mar-2004, 03:09 PM |
| They had a setup where they put the wires (hair-fine) into the monkey's brain and recorded what happened when they gave them joysticks to move teh arm around. Then they took the joystick away. Makes sense. How often have you first thought about doing an action w/ the keyboard/mouse/JS commands from a game before you do it? I have. Sometimes I've seen a set of stairs and wanted to superjump up it.... of course, can't do that, but the keyboard command went straight through my brain and to my fingers, without really meaning to do so. I can def. see them getting the monkey to want to move the arm w/out the joystick there. And I'd read about quantum computers, but not recently, and didn't remember what I was trying to remember, specifically, so didn't name it. And 4Gb HDDs have been small for a while. Look at the iPod Mini. Quarter, though. Impressive. I remember back when 1Ghz processors were six inches in diameter. Saw a pic of it, once. 'Course, might have been a scaled-up prototype. Not certain if they'd do that. |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 30-Mar-2004, 05:53 PM |
| that toshiba quarter size drive IS what is in the mini ipod! I believe Apple was actually waiting for the official release of the drive to release the ipod. I'm guessing the whole unit is about 1 inch across. the platter is something like .76 inches or something. on Toshiba's site, they have a six sided die sitting next to it to give an indication of the size... Scares me to think. It still amazes me that you can out a book on a 3.5 inch floppy and carry it with you! I have my entire CD collection on my 10 GB iPOD, with room left over. This thing's exactly the size of an audio cassette, has games on it, a calendar, and you can not only carry that book that you had on the 3.5 inch floppy, you can read it too on the same device. Want to manage contacts? sure, it can do that too. AND IT'S THE SIZE OF AN AUDIO CASSETTE!!!!! I'm a tech, and computer technology never ceases to amaze me with what can be done. I've got more technology around me at this desk than existed in most large universities 20 or even 10 years ago. My cell phone has more processing power and better graphics than the PC sitting next to me (a 486DX2/50, my chat station), and my main workstation can generate photo-realistic landscapes in a minute or two. Freaky, I tell you. Ohh, and then there's the matter of sitting in Kentucky, talking to someone in Fife, about the radio station in Massachusetts that we both are listening to at the moment. And doing so as quickly as if we were both sitting in a room in Boston tuned in to it... Amazing if you ask me, ohh, and the radio station has real time cover art, and song.album/artist info for the current song! Every bit of this would surely have been too unreal for SCI-FI 75 years ago |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 30-Mar-2004, 06:49 PM |
| Ridiculous, isn't it? I love technoloy. So very very cool... Plus, so many people don't understand it well enough that those of us who do understand it are nearly, or for all intents and purposes, technomages. Which is cool. |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 30-Mar-2004, 07:40 PM |
| I love Richard Dean Anderson. Remember him on MacGyver? That man could take a knife or whatever he had in his pants pocket and get out of the stickiest situation. I'm not much of a SciFi fan. I watch ever now and then. Last week I did watch a movie about werewolves. Very bad actors! I prefer Michael Landon as a werewolf! maggiemahone1 |
| Posted by: valpal 59 30-Mar-2004, 07:56 PM |
We love Sci-Fi. Never miss SG-1. Never missed X-Files. The Sci-Fi channel is one of the most watched channels on the big screen.  |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 30-Mar-2004, 10:50 PM |
| Richard Dean Anderson was McGyver? Cool! I didn't know that, only know him as Col. O'Neal from SG-1. Very cool, there. maggiemahone1, must ask, what movie was it? Dog Soldiers? That was a great B-movie, very fun. Not great as actual movies go, but as a B-Movie, it was great fun. |
| Posted by: Annabelle 31-Mar-2004, 07:47 AM |
| Celtwolf what are you doing using the picture of Peckery when he was institutionalized as your Avatar? Cool! |
| Posted by: maisky 31-Mar-2004, 07:56 AM |
| [QUOTE=Aaediwen,Mar 30 2004, 06:53 PM] It still amazes me that you can out a book on a 3.5 inch floppy and carry it with you! |
| Posted by: tsargent62 31-Mar-2004, 08:02 AM | ||
Actually Intel will make a prototype processor that is nearly room size for testing purposes. Somehow it makes it easier to track what is happening on the chip. |
| Posted by: maisky 31-Mar-2004, 08:35 AM | ||
They use electrons the size of small dogs. |
| Posted by: tsargent62 31-Mar-2004, 09:11 AM | ||
Actually I heard they used very small developers. Kind of like in Tron. |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 31-Mar-2004, 10:31 AM |
| Annabelle, Remus is probably my favorite UT character. About same coolness as Romulus, but he's got them nifty sunglasses that put him over the top. And then there's the issue that Romulus and Remus were the twins, raised by a she-wolf (well, possibly by a prostitute, it's the same word, in latin). Romulus and Remus were building walls, if I recall correctly, and each saw a different number of birds flying in their direction. Argument over which number was luckier, Remus dead. Well, as you can see, my memory of that story is shot. It went SOMETHING like that. Romulus won, otherwise it would have been the great city of Reme. Hehe. |
| Posted by: snowblind 01-Apr-2004, 07:55 AM |
| Most sci-fi appeals to me, especially series with well thought out story arcs like those in Babylon 5. I'm pretty much into anything from the 60s up til present day, that goes for sci-fi movies too. But my main interest lies in anime (Japanese animation) since there's some great sci-fi series and movies to come from that. It's nice to escape and see things that couldn't happen in real life. |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 01-Apr-2004, 07:08 PM |
| Yet. That's what's cool about it. Not necessarily impossible, just, at this point in time, improbable. Look at what Star Trek talked about that we now have: Floppy disks, PDAs, Hypo Sprays... Oh so cool! |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 02-Apr-2004, 05:41 PM |
| Ion drive is in space currently! And the documentart on DS1 that I have seen a couple of times makes a comment that Scotty was amazed when he saw it at some point in the original series. |
| Posted by: tsargent62 02-Apr-2004, 07:37 PM |
| Too right. It was actually used successfully several years ago to propel a probe millions of miles into space to rendevous with an asteroid. The probe also had artificial intelligence (AI) software so it was capable of self-navigation. Very Cool. |