The Best Sci-Fi Shows of All Time

People that don't like sci-fi just haven't watched enough sci-fi. Much like people that don't like beer, people that don't like sci-fi usually started on a stupid version of the product and didn't give it enough time to let it make any impression. If you don't already watch these shows, start.

In both sci-fi and beer, the kinds you are most likely to consume (as they are the most widely known and marketed) are the shittiest.

Here is the grand list of the best sci-fi shows, in order:

Firefly / Serenity
At first it seems retarded to have a show that fits into a genre best described as "sci-fi western". It just doesn't seem to make any sense.

Then, after watching enough of Firefly (or its child movie Serenity ) one begins to understand that Firefly is probably the most realistic sci-fi show in existence. It is the rest of the sci-fi band, not Firefly, that just don't make any bloody sense.

In Firefly, there is no sound in space scenes. Things take time. Nobody has some fantastic way to jump across the galaxy. There are no aliens. Planets are terraformed and basically futuristic shitholes. Not everybody has a laser pistol. Earth gone and blew itself up, and the majority of people have returned to the basics.

Practically speaking, Firefly seems to be a very plausible (at least more plausible than most sci-fi) view of the future. The future has John Wayne in it. Only this time he has a spaceship.

Battlestar Galactica
Firefly and Battlestar share a very great basis: there are no goddamn aliens. Aliens are retarded.

Battlestar is probably on par with Firefly. Battlestar has got it all. Robots that want to kill us. Beautiful manipulative women that happen to be robots that want to kill us.

Add in a few religious overtones and ultra cool space battles and you have the most intense television experience ever. Forget what you know about TV.

The Stargate Series
Ok, this show has aliens. But they get away with it, because the main characters are usually shooting at these aliens and blowing up shit.

The show scores points for having a very open plot where absolutely anything could happen in an episode and you don't quite know who the hell is going to be blown away next.

The show loses points in its sometimes overuse of dumb ideas like ascension and incredibly powerful beings.

Star Wars
Inevitably, Star Wars is on this list. Star Wars 4, 5, 6 is the best sci-fi trilogy made to date (Sorry, screw the Matrix).

That said, Star Wars 1, 2, 3 somehow lack pizzazz. I've had enough of the Star Wars universe. I don't know why, but the honeymoon is over.

Star Trek
Time to get real. Star Trek. Like what the hell. It's bureaucracy in space. Star Trek is so incredibily absurd.

Somehow, in Star Trek land, everone is getting along. Everybody thinks A WHOLE LOT before blowing shit up. Everybody has some uberfantastic weaponry that looks like a TV remote control. Everybody wears uberclothing that is thinner than modern day pyjamas.

The whole organizational structure resembles something like the UN gone wild - somehow, they gained a lot of technology and have their shit together.

Star Trek is a show where the science gets blurry and the fiction is underlined.

If I had to rate the Star Trek shows against each other, it would look like this :

Enterprise - T'Pol is neato.
Voyager - 7 of 9 is nifty.
Star Trek - Kirk is the man.
Next Generation - Riker is a fairy.
Deep Space Nine - WTF.

Babylon 5
I haven't even watched an entire episode of this show. I have trouble with the very idea that the only difference between us and certain races of aliens is the type of haircut.

As before, aliens are stupid.

Aliens with poofy hair are extremely stupid.

So theres the who's who in sci-fi.

Anybody that disagrees should know the chain of command.

Comments...

kat - eh

I dunno :3 I like star trek :3 Especially Voyager. Deep space 9 was pretty WTF (you're right...) and I really didn't like enterprize.

Starg ate USED to be good but then got really shitty really fast. Still interesting to watch once in a while but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

I'll agree with you on star wars and firefly though I admit I haven't seen babylon 5 or battle star Galactica...

To be honest I prefer other genres in general to sci-fi because most of the other sci-fi shows not listed are really similar to the ones above. I know most genres kinda beat the dead horse to a pulp, but for some reason I find that sci-fi is really bad for that...

I haven't seen Serenity yet :3

Steve -

Firefly and Battlestar, hell yes. Can't say I agree with any of the others, though. Star Wars has ruined its legacy, and Star Trek is just plain ridiculous.

Also, you clearly forgot Dune.

tooth -

nerds

sheldong - sci fi

Go see Serenity.

I had to include Star Wars and Star Trek on here, just to slander them.

Yeah, I forgot Dune. I haven't seen Dune though. At least not in its entirety.

leo - dune

Don't see dune. The movie sucks balls. read the books.

whedon is my master now -

whedon did a good job with serenity, now if only he could pull off ender's game.

Dan the Man - Hair and...

Actually I heard that later in Babylon 5, you find out that the puffy hair aliens have some different reproductive organs, like tentacles. And one of them uses it to cheat at cards. The horror. The horror.