Don’t know how you guys feel about comparisons to Star Trek but I thought this was interesting.
Also, Mods … if this kind of post is not allowed, I don’t mind it being taken down.
I’ve only watched about half of all Star Trek content with series and movies and animations. I thought I had years of content to watch in the future … but after hearing about other series from other people over the years, through comments in this community and through lists like this Youtube video … I think I’ll be spending the rest of my life watching scifi, the majority of which will be Star Trek.
A somewhat obscure one, but very well worth a watch is “Earth 2” from the mid 90s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_2_(TV_series)
Featuring Tim Curry!
So he did escape to space?
I wasn’t sure about some scifi TV series from the 90s that I had never heard of … but you had me at Tim Curry!
It’s a very good show.
I also cannot recommend Blake’s 7 enough. It’s the original dark sci-fi TV series- unsurprising since it was from the mind of Terry Nation, who created the Daleks- and inspired a lot of other shows… especially Farscape, which was essentially a Blake’s 7 tribute show. Both are about a bunch of criminals escaping from a tyrannical government on a ship unlike any other known ship, with its own agency and ability to communicate with the crew. In both, some intend to fight back, some intend to run away and some are just in it for themselves. One of the villains in Farscape (Grayza) even very obviously was made to look like the big bad in Blake’s 7, Servalan.
It’s also got one of the most jaw-dropping finales of all time.
Good list. Perhaps the only one I disagree with is SG:U. As a series it was unfulfilling, and if animated series are on the list (given that legend of the galactic heroes was listed) I’d have gone with Macross/Robotech.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t really pay off until the end, and even then, the payoff is a bit anti-climactic.
Some good shows in the list, but the one that I find notably missing is Dark Matter. Well worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.
Beautiful username because it reminds me of this classic scifi that I really really wish they had turned into a TV series … Galaxy Quest
2015 Dark Matter right? Enjoyed 2015 so much I can’t get over the unrelated 2024 with the same name…
Yeah 2015. Another great show cancelled despite being a success with viewers. Haven’t seen any of the 2024 one.
I remember really enjoying Earth: Final Conflict when it was on the air, though I don’t know if it holds up today. It was based on some Gene Roddenberry notes and produced by Majel.
They had some very cool futuristic gadgets that I wish had made it into the mainstream a bit more. The design for this communicator was awesome, for example.
Neat … this series is on my long, long list of shows to watch.
Hello and welcome, I’m UpperBroccoli, I’ll be your deviant tonight.
Lexx.
- Lexx, a senile, organic space ship in the shape of a huge firefly, which can destroy entire planets.
- A former assistant deputy backup courier and now security guard class 4 (that’s the lowest) by the name of Stanley H. Tweedle, who is the captain of the mighty Lexx and a selfish spineless coward 99% of the time.
- An escaped sex-starved “love slave” by the name of Xev Bellringer, that never gets any sex and who is also part cluster lizard (which are way more terrifying then you could imagine).
- A 2000 year old undead assassin, last of a long dead people, by the name of Kai.
- A sex-starved robot head without a body named 790.
And that is just the heroes! Wait until you hear about the villains!
Made in Canada (well, Newfoundland tbh) and Germany!
