worst sci-fi TV series of post 1964

[Locutus of Bored]

Cleopatra 2525
Team Knight Rider
Viper
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Manimal
Automan
Far Out Space Nuts
Baywatch Nights
V: The Series (remake's pretty terrible too)
Future Cop
Family Matters (when it became the Urkel show and started featuring cloning, robots, and time travel)
Small Wonder
Homeboys from Outer Space
Robocop the Series
Mortal Kombat: Conquest
The Powers of Matthew Star
Galactica 1980

 

[Greg Cox]

^ Okay, now we're talking!

(Although I'll still claim CLEO as a guilty pleasure.)

 

[Silvercrest]

Andromeda didn't kill many people because nobody watched it, so I'd imagine as a disease it's more like a very rare skin rash that annoys rather than kills. The Event and the NuV were blips on the radar, so let's call them a 24-hour stomach flu. Tremors, of course, is a tape worm.

Expo67, what does What do you expect from someone who remade his own story into a less than entertaining episode of TNG? And a good story it was at that. mean?

Dennis wrote an episode for TNG that Expo67 didn't like. Expo takes every opportunity to point that out, regardless of whether it's applicable to the discussion.

The term ad hominem comes to mind.

 

[JRoss]

Ah. What was the episode?

 

[Gepard]

Tin Man. Thoroughly unmemorable episode, as I recall, but not worth constantly throwing back in his face.

 

[JRoss]

Really? Wow. Well, that whole situation is too bad. At least Dennis accomplished something, whether anyone likes the episode or not.

I actually like the episode, as it gave us more insight into Betazoids, and the Gomtuu CCG card that could shoot your opponent's guy away. Plus the actor who played Miles on 24 was fantastic.

 

[Marc]

M.A.N.T.I.S.

Didn't think it was that bad and manged to sit through it all. Not sure when the last time a series ended up the way it did.
Did have some other sci-fi links.

Carl Lumbly went on to Alias and features in BSG as well as voicing the Martian Manhunter in Justice League.

Andrew "Garak" Robison had a few eps as a villian.

Music by Chris Franke who also did the Babylon 5 music.

 

[Expo67]

Really? Wow. Well, that whole situation is too bad. At least Dennis accomplished something, whether anyone likes the episode or not.

I actually like the episode, as it gave us more insight into Betazoids, and the Gomtuu CCG card that could shoot your opponent's guy away. Plus the actor who played Miles on 24 was fantastic.

You would be a lot better off reading the book that Bailey and David Bischoff wrote in 1979. Before he butchered it into that remake.

Tin Woodman was an excellent cerebral science fiction adventure. One that was well-written and multi-dimensional. I enjoyed reading the book in 1999, when I first came across a copy of it. It was quite a mindsearing story.

God knows it was fine the way it was, until he rewrote it for TNG.

Sad, sad, sad....

 

[Gepard]

It's okay. Now show us on the doll where the bad sci-fi author touched you...

 

[Jetfire]

Tin Man. Thoroughly unmemorable episode, as I recall, but not worth constantly throwing back in his face.

I actually liked that ep...I just recently watched it and thought it was pretty good.

 

[Gepard]

It's been years since I've seen it, but my recollection is of finding it somewhat tedious, in the way that the less enjoyable TNG episodes often were. ("Masterpiece Society" comes to mind as the Ur-example.) Perhaps it would be worth a revisit to see how I feel now, but my opinions of the other TNG episodes have stayed consistent over time so it seems unlikely it would change much.

The much better Dennis Bailey episode is "First Contact," which I love.

 

[Expo67]

It's okay. Now show us on the doll where the bad sci-fi author touched you...

I wouldn't be joking about something as horrible as that. Let alone make humorous references to something that innocent children have suffered from.

My wife's father, who used to be a police officer, dealt with cases involving those who were molested and abused. Let alone arresting the scum who committed such monstrous acts.

Not only is that NOT FUNNY, it is also QUITE SICKENING and REVOLTING!

Talk about perverted!

 

[Gepard]

Somehow, your über dour reaction doesn't surprise me.

 

[Expo67]

It's been years since I've seen it, but my recollection is of finding it somewhat tedious, in the way that the less enjoyable TNG episodes often were. ("Masterpiece Society" comes to mind as the Ur-example.) Perhaps it would be worth a revisit to see how I feel now, but my opinions of the other TNG episodes have stayed consistent over time so it seems unlikely it would change much.

The much better Dennis Bailey episode is "First Contact," which I love.

The title of which RDM used to write the eighth Star Trek film.

Would have been better if RDM used a different title.

 

[Aeolusdallas]

It's okay. Now show us on the doll where the bad sci-fi author touched you...

I wouldn't be joking about something as horrible as that. Let alone make humorous references to something that innocent children have suffered from.

My wife's father, who used to be a police officer, dealt with cases involving those who were molested and abused. Let alone arresting the scum who committed such monstrous acts.

Not only is that NOT FUNNY, it is also QUITE SICKENING and REVOLTING!

Talk about perverted!

How else does one react to your massively out of proportion posts here?

 

[Gepard]

Would have been better if RDM used a different title.

They could have called it Star Trek: Poopypants and it would have had no bearing on the quality of the film. Or does your anti-remake neurosis extend to never, ever reusing titles?

It's okay. Now show us on the doll where the bad sci-fi author touched you...

I wouldn't be joking about something as horrible as that. Let alone make humorous references to something that innocent children have suffered from.

My wife's father, who used to be a police officer, dealt with cases involving those who were molested and abused. Let alone arresting the scum who committed such monstrous acts.

Not only is that NOT FUNNY, it is also QUITE SICKENING and REVOLTING!

Talk about perverted!

How else does one react to your massively out of proportion posts here?

By bursting a blood vessel while replying?

Oh, no, wait. That's Expo.

 

[Expo67]

Somehow, your über dour reaction doesn't surprise me.

Well, you should have known better than to make a sick joke like that.

In case you didn't know this, a sick crime like that is nothing to laugh about.

Talk about having no respect.

 

[Expo67]

Would have been better if RDM used a different title.

They could have called it Star Trek: Poopypants and it would have had no bearing on the quality of the film. Or does your anti-remake neurosis extend to never, ever reusing titles?

I wouldn't be joking about something as horrible as that. Let alone make humorous references to something that innocent children have suffered from.

My wife's father, who used to be a police officer, dealt with cases involving those who were molested and abused. Let alone arresting the scum who committed such monstrous acts.

Not only is that NOT FUNNY, it is also QUITE SICKENING and REVOLTING!

Talk about perverted!

How else does one react to your massively out of proportion posts here?

By bursting a blood vessel while replying?

Oh, no, wait. That's Expo.

Eas in crucem

 

[Admiral_Young]

They originally wanted to call "Star Trek: First Contact" "Star Trek: Contact" but couldn't because of course the adaption of the Carl Sagan novel was coming out as well.

 

[Gepard]

Oh, no, wait. That's Expo.

Eas in crucem

Did you just tell me to go to Hell? Oh, what a bad boy you are.