I actually think it would be cool if Science Channel showed some sci-fi stuff, but had trivia tracks running along the bottom with education facts about space or technology or something.
You know, that's a cool idea. Annotated science fiction. "Pop-up video" notes correcting the science errors and such.
Reminds me of the book I'm reading now,
The Science Fictional Solar System. It's a 1979 collection of mostly older stories about the bodies of the Solar System, stories that were as accurate as possible when they were published but had been based on science subsequently found to be erroneous (although editor Isaac Asimov seems to have cheated, since his own story in the anthology is from 1970 and was still pretty accurate at the time of publication). E.g. a story assuming Mercury always kept one face to the Sun, a story assuming Venus was an inhabited desert world, a story assuming Jupiter had a surface, etc. Each story is preceded with an introduction by Asimov discussing the real science as it was known in 1979. (Might be cool to have a new version of such an anthology to reflect further progress in the ensuing three decades.)
