B5 is a classy, classy show. The sets and stuff are a little lower quality than some of the other stuff we are talking aboot, but it's an extremely well done show. I remember when the the Battlstar reboot came around and the first thing I thought of when looking at the space scenes was; "Looks like Babylon 5."

You bet, that's why I've watched the entire series and moves about 6 times now.

But where oh where can you stream it? CanIStream.It is not showing it available anywhere...

Babylon 5 was one of the best shows ever. B5 is why DS9 started getting good. They saw it was possible to actually tell an ongoing story and people would tune in. You don't have to wrap up everything by the end of the episode and start over again the following week. Even TNG fell into that trap and for the most part it doesn't really matter what order you see the episodes in.

B5 was planned from the start as a 5 year story. S1 hits it's stride about midway and once into S2 you can't wait for the next episode. S5 was kind of tacked on because it wasn't sure there would be S5 until after S4 was done so JMS wrapped up the main story in S4. The movies and the spin-off are good too and I heard rumors that they were trying to do more B5.

The newer Battlestar was a great show, for the first few seasons. Then in my opinion it really just fell apart. The last season just never lived up to the expectations.

As for ST I grew up watching TOS and still love it. I didn't start watching TNG until the second season or so because I hated the thought they were trying to redo one of my favorite shows but once I started I enjoyed it.

DS9 didn't start out all that great but once they figured out they could do an ongoing story and got into the Dominion War it got good.

Had high hopes for Voyager. Voyager sucked. Seriously, I hung in but it never got better. Yes Jerry Ryan was nice to look at but the show sucked.

Enterprise had the worst opening. Seriously, why did they think that song would be a good choice and why did they stick with it? The show itself was great. Started a little slow but any new show usually does. One exception is Firefly, that is one show that hit the street running and never looked back, shame what happened to it. Remember watching the first ep when it aired and was blown away. Back to Enterprise I loved it. I liked Bakula from Quantum Leap and they made it an ongoing story instead of week to week storytelling. Plus Jolene Blalock. To me the hottest Vulcan ever and my favorite Trek girl. Yes I would take her over Jerry Ryan any day.

Forgot to say, the funny part about Firefly hitting it right away was they didn't even show the first episode first. The first one they showed was The Train Job which I think was really supposed to be ep5. Had they shown the series in the proper order and advertised it a little it might have fared better. If they had done some promotion for a two-hour movie to start off and put it on a good night who know what could have happened. But then again we are talking about fox, they can ruin anything.

Babylon 5 is an absolute must for anyone who likes sci-fi. Battlestar Galactica is really good also, but I agree that it went downhill after the first couple seasons. You mentioned that you watched Doctor Who, so I assume you have seen Torchwood. If not, you should definitely check it out (although don't even bother with the last season). I'd also highly recommend Firefly, Farscape, Stargate SG-1, Dollhouse, Orphan Black, Fringe, and The Booth at the End. There are also some great sci-fi shows that only lasted one season but are well worth watching such as Day Break, Journeyman and Tron: Uprising.

The on going storytelling is the reason we had such a tight knit group of between 8-12 watching it at different members houses. They loved to come over to my place because I had a 48in tv with the sound running through my stereo and that show sounded great too because it was in Dolby. All this talk about B5 makes me want to watch the whole thing for the 7th time.

The best scene in the whole series to me was when Susan and Zaththeris had a 4 and a half minute one camera uncut exchange in the tunnel. It was the best.

Agreed. There has never been a show that grabbed me as quickly as Firefly. Such a travesty that it got cancelled so quickly.

They didn't ruin B5 thank god and they even foot the bill for the 4 tv B5 movies which really surprised me. They knew they had a winner.

Star Trek was made for color TV. There was and is never anything like it.
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Guess I need to check out B5.....never watched it.

On an extremely sad note.....we (my family) were planning to go to Comic-Con in San Diego this year. Well my daughter and I had signed up on their website ( it's only way to have a chance to buy tickets) a long time ago. My wife and son never did. Well when my son finally tried it said he had missed the deadline. We figured it just lessened our chances of being able to purchase tickets.

But no.....I got in early and was brought to the ticket purchasing screen. You are allowed to purchase up to three tickets.......but ONLY for those who had signed up prior to the deadline! So I'm sitting there (with my head in my hands) with the ability to buy tickets for my daughter and I......and I had to pass!

Astro - that is a really sad story. Maybe I'll have to sign up in advance and go in 2016... but I'll probably wait for the 2016 VEGAS con.

I trashed it before watching it because of all of the hype. I watched it on DVD after it was canceled, and couldn't believe how good it was. How long could it have lasted....who knows but it was good.

Another one of my favorites is FarScape. Great stuff.

B-5 was a great show, except for season 5 which was a let down without Ivonova. It had people from other shows starring in it like Will Robinson from Lost in Space, Chekov from TOS as a villain, Bruce Boxleitner from Tron, and Flounder from Animal House among others...

Love the original series, Next Gen (Picard is my favorite captain and like Data, although Spock is my favorite character overall). Was bored by DS9 until the last year or two when it got really good with episodes that continued the story of Sisko's spiritual development and a plot-line that developed from week to week versus stand alone episodes. Same for Enterprise in its last season or two. I thought Enterprise finally got quite good its last year or so and was disappointed by the decision to kill the show.

Liked the first reboot movie and was quite disappointed in the second one as to a large degree. I felt it blew an opportunity with the new timeline to be creative and unique. Instead it made a poor remake of The Wrath of Khan, IMO. And putting the Enterprise under water with no good explanation--what the heck! Khan with a British accent and reversing Spock's death to Kirk's and having Spock yell "Khan!" The blood from the tribble that was from Khan bringing Kirk back to life. Come on Abrams! Yuck!

Speaking of science fiction I had hoped in the movie Interstellar they would end up on a planet with alien life forms both sentient and interesting. Disappointed by them going to a planet and being betrayed by another astronaut and that whole theme. Thought the movie was decent but not great.

Now I just wish we could get a new Star Trek TV show! And I hope the next movie is better.

I'm disappointed with most of the current Star Trek books as they almost all seem about war and more war and very little space exploration and meeting unique and interesting life forms.

I would rank at:
1. STTNG TV
2. Original Movies
3. STTNG Movies

I think they did that because the guy playing Kirk couldn't deliver the line properly or with the needed emotion. Chris Pine is a major wimp next to Quinto.

Another series that doesn't get any attention in America was Starhunter. The first season dvd set is only $7.99 on Amazon. For some reason season 2 is $199?!? They are also in pre-production on a new movie set for release in December.

Farscape is probably my favorite sci-fi show of all time. It was just so much different than anything else that aired before or since, and it was brilliantly executed. Too bad it got cancelled after Season 4, but at least we got a mini-series to somewhat wrap things up. In retrospect, it's amazing that we even got that many episodes. The show was ridiculously expensive to produce. I can't wait to show it to my kids one day, but they're not quite old enough yet. Despite the fact that it featured Muppets, it often dealt with very mature themes.

I've never even heard of it.

Edit....looks like you can buy the entire series (22 episodes) from Amazon for $8

I know that has a rabid following but I could never get into it.

How aboot Lexx? That's a seriously original one right there.

Oh, I don't know about that....

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And I could never get into Lexx. While there are some similarities between the two shows, I always considered Farscape to be vastly superior on almost every level. I know many people disagree with this. It's a debate you see time and time again in online forums. Perhaps I should go back and give Lexx another try. Just have to get through The Wire, True Detective and Fargo first.

That is only the first season. The second season was actually called Starhunter 2300 which for some reason is $199 on Amazon. Most people haven't heard of it. It was a Canadian show and when I happened to catch it originally it was on at 3 a.m..

Well said, a VERY sad day.

Sad day today. I remember meeting Leonard Nimoy when I was 11. He very graciously signed an autograph for me.

I like all the shows with DS9 being my least favorite. I'm a bit partial to Enterprise as we got to visit the set in the second and third seasons and met Connor Trineer and Jolene Blalock. I still kick myself for not asking her if I could take her picture with my daughter. Seeing her stride across the set to us in full makeup/costume with a big smile is an image I'll never forget. And, even from inches away, tge ears looked real!

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Your lucky to have met him, I never did. I wish they never would have canceled Enterprise, it was the only show I watched every week.

The only actor I consider to have met is Brent Spinner (Data - STNG). I spent several hours with him one afternoon on a 1 on 1 basis.

I stood in lines for nearly every ST actor's autograph; but with the exception of George T ... I didn't really have time to talk with them at length. Well; that isn't true - I had a pinball chat with Jonathan Frakes ... so that was cool.

He (Nimoy) was doing Fiddler on the Roof in a summer theater in Massachusetts. I remember sneaking around to where he came off the stage at intermission. I remember that he was surprised, but he signed my program and chatted with me for a few minutes. Sadly, the program was probably tossed when my Mom got rid of my comic books.

When my daughter saw/met Trineer, he signed a photo for her and we took some pics with her/him, but she was SO disappointed to see that he smoked (he was on a smoking in costume when we met him).

Enterprise got so much better when Manny took over and was so close to being renewed for S5.

Way cool.

Another great story. Thanks. You people were so lucky.

I talked to a guy on the outdoor set of a movie called A Simple Plan for about 10 minutes then he went on set and started acting with Bill Paxton and I said to my self "I wonder who that was". A few hours later after the wrap I found out it had been Billy Bob Thornton, his makeup and costume were that good, he was really nice to talk to. I also got to talk to Bill Paxton for a while the same day but I knew who he was. Sam Rami let me shoot some personal video on that outdoor shoot too.

I don't know if any of you have watched the new "Jack and Triumph Show" on Adult Swim, but there was a segment in the pilot that had me laughing harder than I have in a long time. They are at New York Comic Con, and Triumph approaches Brent Spiner. He proceeds to hurl some great insults at him. The last one was so funny that even Marina Sirtis sitting next to him started cracking up.

You should have seen Jack and Triumph (Robert Smigel) at San Diego Comic con last year!
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... and the panel was hosted by Leonard Maltin (and he got the treatment from triumph!).
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I read that in Latino Report last week. I would tune in every week even if I were dead. I pray it's true. Every Trek fan should read it.

I was at some guys house in NH buying a Funhouse and a Slugfest and he says ''hey, I'll give you a good deal on a STTNG''
I had no real interest in anything Star Trek, but knew the praise the game has received, so I said sure, why not.

It was a nightmare and a half to get working properly, but I absolutely fell in love with the gameplay. So much so I wanted to know what the hell they were talking about in the game! I had no idea, I had never watched Star Trek anything before in my life.
So I started watching Next Gen on netflix and a little of the original, and started to dig it. Watched the new movies, thought those were great. Traded up my STTNG for the Stern version but I'll have a STTNG again someday. (I also have a cpr'ed Bally version)

Make it so!

Sorry, I have to disagree, Voyager never gets better. It get a little less annoying but never gets good.

I need a great new pinball based on the OG series or lets say The Wrath of Khan, would love to see Heighway make it. Think of the center playfield LCD with Khan appearing periodically to taunt during Nebula Multiball.

I think a Wrath of Khan pin would sell real fast, but that could just be because I want it so badly. I think the idea of on playfield LCD acting as the "on screen" would be amazing. What a shame that Stern Startrek didn't have a JJP style LCD with all the on screen exchanges with Nero and what not. Thats where it would really shine, same even with Alien or other futuristic style themes.