What would be your idea of a perfect science fiction series?

[Joe Washington]

A human drama that happens to have science fiction elements, a high-tech alien-filled sci-fi epic, a Futurama-like comedic sitcom, or something else.

Would the series have a main arc like Babylon 5 or Lost? Or would it just go with the flow?

 

[Jetfire]

Something like Mutant-X but better.

The concept is great...the show lacked a budget, good writing and had models instead of real actors.

Mutant X is a television series that first aired October 6, 2001. Created by Marvel Studios (a division of Marvel Comics), the story centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. Like hundreds of other unsuspecting people, the members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The company behind the project now wants to control these New Mutants for its own purposes. The mission of the Mutant X team is to seek out their fellow New Mutants, help them come to terms with their abilities, and protect them from those who want only to exploit their powers.

from wiki.

 

[davejames]

My perfect, ideal scifi show would probably be VOY... but with much better writing. Something about a ship and crew stranded on the other side of the galaxy, completely cut off from home, is just incredibly compelling to me.

Hopefully some day we'll see the idea actually done RIGHT.

 

[JuanBolio]

Something like ENT, but with better writing, the hard sci-fi of something like Rendezvous with Rama or Babylon 5, and as few forehead-of-the-week humanoid aliens as possible - preferably none.

As it stands B5 probably hit closest to the mark for my perfect sci-fi series out of anything that exists.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Babylon 5 with nuBSG-level special effects and without any of the interferences which forced JMS to adjust the plan (for example, when they stuffed most of the remaining arcs into Season 4 because they thought the show was about to being cancelled).

 

[Orac Zen]

For me, they've already been made. They're called Blakes 7, Babylon 5 and Farscape. All three need only very minor tweaking to be even closer to perfect than they already are.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

TNG with continuity and a bit darker.

DS9 season 6.

Enterprise if it wasn't made at a time when Trek had run out of ideas.

 

[Candlelight]

"Naked Space Babes of Gamma Sector 14"

Sells itself. Seven seasons right there just from the title.

 

[intrinsical]

"Naked Space Babes of Gamma Sector 14"

Sells itself. Seven seasons right there just from the title.

Baywatch in Space?

 

[Blamo]

Like JuanBolio, for me Babylon 5 was pretty close to being my perfect sci-fi, even if the following doesn't seem like it.

Setting:-
Either the Earth in the near future, similar to the one in Blade Runner.

or

Set in the distant future where humanity has spread out throughout the galaxy.

Story:-
It will have a structured story that will last perhaps three seasons with an ending planned out from the beginning. Long enough for a story to be told without filler and without making the series long winded.

Characters:-
None of them will be part of an organisation, military or otherwise. Perhaps a company, but that's the limit. No yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir and no carrying of weapons as standard.

The "heroes" will all be highly likable people.

It'll have a quirky super intelligent (and attractive) female character as the lead. Preferably with a RP "accent".

The stories will be focused on the characters. By character orientated I don't mean the story will simply focus on their relationships but that it will be driven by the characters.

Other odds and ends:-
If it has space fights they will be few and far between, keeping them fresh. Space fights would be done in a nautical manner, with the focus on strategy.

No shaky cam

No religious imagery, it was old hat back in the 90's.

No technobabble.

No overuse of the flashback machine.

 

[Deckerd]

No aliens.


With the caveat that District 9 was damn near perfect. So no aliens invented in the USA.

 

[O'Dib]

A new, more sci-fi intensive take on the superman mythos. In the vain of All-Star. Ramp up the outrageous and otherworldly, but handle it maturely. Have an actual Watchtower in space. Have a spacebike race with Lobo. Go on actual futuristic/elseworlds adventures with the Legion. Have a more believable reason why no one can recognize Kent in Supes. Maybe he literally glows when using his sun-powered abilities, so his features become bleached out beyond recognition?

 

[Australis]

I started a similar thread 18 months ago, some good ideas in it:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=47698

Also, I agree with whoever said VOY up thread, with better writing.

Hmm, maybe in 20 years, when we've gone through the new version of TOS and TNG.

 

[Psion]

Take Star Trek: Enterprise, combine with an updated TOS, make it as scientifically accurate as possible while keeping an upbeat, optimistic view of the future with good writing and acting and at least half the season filled with two or three part episodes, so there's lots of room for story-telling.

There have been three shows that really push my sci-fi buttons. Trek, Firefly, and sometimes Doctor Who. There are many more I liked watching but don't especially miss.

 

[FluffyUnbound]

I'd like to see a series based on human exploration and colonization of the solar system in the near future.

Series "rules" would be:

1. Hard science for transportation times.
2. Hard science for weightlessness.
3. Hard science for the effect of non-Earth environments on human beings.
4. Hard science for the capabilities and capacities of bases.
5. Characters would all be plausible participants in a colonization scheme - i.e. scientists, engineers, and high-capability people. No lovable rogues or stowaways.
6. Hard science for weapons.
7. Not all characters would be Americans.
8. "Hard sociology" for issues of administering a system of colonies spread across the solar system, given the limits imposed by #1-7.
9. Continuity, continuity, continuity. No true stand-alone episodes, not even at the level of stand-aloneness attained by nuBSG. Each season would basically be a 20 part miniseries.

I'd want to set the series at a point in history where the off-Earth colonies are starting to be large enough to be self-sufficient, and there are hidden political movements and groups who are thinking about breaking away from Earth. The series would focus on a group of characters who are put in charge of trying to rein these colonies in politically, militarily, and economically, but can't quite decide whether or not they want to succeed.

Basically I want Red Mars meets The Quiet War but I doubt I'll ever get it unless I animate it myself in Moviestorm or something.

 

[Mistral]

How about a series(realistic) about a colonized Solar system. Titan, Mars, Ceres, etc all have thriving, established colonies with their own political and social conventions. Humanity is turning it's eyes to the stars and the ongoing thread of the series would be all of the efforts(and machinations) of funding, building and launching Humanity's first starship. Character driven with Nasa level realism in the prediction of the technology of the time period. If the assumption is established that there are at least a few million people living off Earth you create a thriving background to work with, I think.

 

[Faldor]

Firefly.

 

[C.E. Evans]

A starship-based series that combines elements of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, The X-Files, and Xena: Warrior Princess.

 

[Greg Cox]

A starship-based series that combines elements of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, The X-Files, and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Sold!

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

WAGON TRAIN IN SPACE.

Star Trek was the ideal science fiction series except they managed to avoid violent conflict too much, Kirk fist fights aside.

What doesn't work for me:

Hidden world of monsters and mutants on Earth that some secret group fights. Tired of that.

Premises drawn out over a long period. LOST and Flash Forward seemed more like investments than a show to look forward to every week. I bailed early...no looks back.

Tongue-in-cheek doesn't work...only hurts the genre.

Prequels...why Enterprise was doomed to fail.

Half-assed reimaginings of properties. Flash Gordon, is that show still on? No.






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