Science Fiction TV Numbers 35 – 31
Number 35: Cowboy Bepop | |
 | You think that Guardians of the Galaxy is the only mixed team that includes an odd cast of characters? Cowboy Bebop ran for 20+ episodes in the late 1990s and remains a fav in the SciFi community. Hint: the ship’s name is Bebop and cowboys are the bounty hunters in the future where an old west style law prevails. |
Number 34: Caprica | |
 | GorT is a big fan of the Battlestar Galactica reboot but could never get into the spin off Caprica. While it provided some history with the “skinjobs” (human-looking Cylons). When you conflate the less-than-stellar concluding episode of BSG with the odd rollout of the Caprica pilot, it isn’t surprising that the SyFy channel pulled the plug on the series before it ran its course. In the end, it was a flop of a SciFi soap opera that could gain no traction with any fanbase. |
Number 33: Alien Nation | |
 | Meh. After the James Caan and Mandy Patinkin movie in 1988, Fox gave the premise a try on TV a year later. It did ok but only ran for a season which clearly shows it wasn’t strong enough to survive. There were partner-cop scifi shows before this and there will be more later. |
Number 32: Star Trek: Voyager | |
 | The first installment in this list from the Star Trek universe. This followed the voyage of the Voyager as it was transported 70,000 light years into the “Delta” quadrant. It introduced some new characters, races and dived into the Borg with Seven of Nine as the skin-tight suit wearing Borg. GorT never really cared much for the show or Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Janeway. It did keep the Star Trek franchise going but it pursued the Rick Berman view of Roddenberry’s creation. |
Number 31: Lost in Space | |
 | A pioneer show in the SciFi genre that gave us the immortal phrase, “Danger, Will Robinson!” The formula was pretty straighforward: take the Swiss Family Robinson and make it space-based. A bit before my time, but GorT has seen a number of reruns. The reboot movie was ok and had some neat effects and twists but nothing super exciting. |
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