Are you a secret (or otherwise) sci-fi fan?! Come in Janeway et al!

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OK, I admit it, I'm a Voyager and Stargate fan although I don't watch much else sci-fi. I fancy Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill in SG1 as Daniel's so clever and Jack is so capable - I'm A SAD WOMAN!!! And I love Captain Janeway - can't think why they waited for so long to invent a woman Starfleet Captain. So am I the only saddo or will anyone else confess?

Lucy123 - you're right - it's the voice, Picard does it for me for the same reason - my mum (nearly 70) concurres - it must be a genetic defect or something.

Batters, Tigermoth, another sad person here - the Survivors scared the pants off me but I loved it. Now, who remembers kiddie sci-fi lite in the form of the Tomorrow People?
And I had a Blake's Seven BADGE, with the Liberator on it. It was the size of a tea plate and I actually wore the thing until it was discarded in favour of a Sex Pistols badge...

I dont even have to admit it - I'm a fan and its no secret to anyone who knows me. Like Voyager the best. DH likes Babylon 5, which drives me insane .....

Time Out has list of 100 best films this week. Am I the only person in the world who thinks Alien is way the best film of this series and NOT Aliens? Too tired to offer a critique in support of my views just now!

Am I also the only person in the entire world who thinks The Usual Suspects is totally overrated rubbish?

Not being a sci-fi fan, just meandered into here. However, agree about the overrating of The Usual Suspects

Bossykate, no I agree about The Usual Suspects. Can't believe it keeps making it into top 100 film lists.

Bossykate, totally agree about Alien - one of my all-time best films.

I never realised there were so many of us out there! I love TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, Farscape, B5, Buffy and Angel.

Dh doesn't really get it at all, so I video a lot and watch it when he's otherwise occupied. Loved Thunderbirds as a kid (ds has been very impressed by my encyclopaedic knowledge of T-birds ), also Blakes Seven, Dr Who and Star Trek.

Didn't know you could get The Survivors on video, Batters. Can I ask you where from?

I can't remember how it petered out, Bettys, though the ending was inconclusive. Last heard of, they were still surviving...

When 'The Last Train' hit the screens a few years ago, another series in the same vein, I watched every episode. These sort of programmes really stick in my mind - I have dreams about them. What a confession!

ahhh! videoing for secret watching!

in the height of breastfeeding the newborn dd, i used to watch buffy, downstairs, in the wee small hours... she was awake, i was awake! what the hey!?
she still jiggles around when buffy music comes on, whether that's memory (a good one i hope Dr Robert Winston!) or just plain jiggley dancey music!... who knows!!!

fave star trek has got to be voyager!... only niggle! Neelix! oh dear simon howard, you have a real problem there!!!

i'm surprised x files has not been mentioned much!, the first couple of series were absolutely brilliant!... i mean the episode 'Squeeze' has got to be an all time classic! Eugene Tooms! Scared me silly the first time i saw it!!! - whoops stop me getting all Philey! got to go before i start discussing the merits of lighting and mood music!

Lucy123

I'm usually likened either to one of the Mitchell brothers or Uncle Fester.

BossyKate

Yes you are the only person who thinks either of those things.

Marina - Tommorrow people was my fave as a child - used to dream about clutching my belt and "jaunting".

I've been wondering about the facination of sci-fi for women (originally these progs must have been thought of boy's fodder) - I've come to the conclusion that its partially escapism, but a significant part of it is that it's the only genre in which I can regularly find female characters to whom I can relate - strong women working in a truely equal, prejudice free environment - maybe its all escapism then....

Janeway, part of the appeal for me with Star Trek and SG1 is that I KNOW nothing really bad will happen to them, or, if it does, they'll survive! So it's not too scary (and I'm such a jumper, I leap 3 foot into the air at scary things). I also remember Blakes Seven and (only vaguely) Tomorrow People. I've seen Blakes Seven on satellite recently and the sets are AWFUL, all cardboard and silver foil!

ha! simon, there will be four of us on my planet, thanks to tinker, www, and azzie! iirc, isn't your dd whose middle name is na'toth?

BossyKate

Yes it is. But in my defence DW chose the names for DD not me.

Oh and in addition to Quark and Neelix she also likes the Narns from B5 (I'm just hoping it isn't all the leather gear that they wear)

I veer between Alien and Aliens depending on how gung-ho I'm feeling. I love the Usual Suspects

Janeway - you are absolutely right about women in sci fi! Dana Scully... now there's a woman, smart., clever, lovely, just had a baby! - though i don't know how she's managed that and keep her job!- she's always gallavanting around in the dark - isn't she knackered???... and best of all... able to chase suspects (usually strange alien hybrids) in her 3 inch heels!!
not to mention able to allure special agent fox(y) mulder!

Can't pass comment on The Usual Suspects, never seen it, but agree with Alien topping the follow ups.

I've got to put Blade Runner in my top 3 sci-fi films, together with Planet of the Apes, if only for the classic Charlton Heston line "Get your stinking paws off me you damned dirty ape!"

I loved the Tomorrow People - often fantasised about being one myself!

I've never seen all of Alien (or any of the sequels) - and never will! I'm too squeamish, so wait till things like that are on TV and then I can do my best to avoid the scary bits (not always successfully!).

I can see SimonHoward's dw's attraction to the Narn - it's something about their bearing!

Thanks Batters. There's always the hope the BBC will repeat it - I wish TV companies would trawl their archives more often and dig out obscure goodies like this. But not 'The Goodies' please. Am I the only person to find that series wincingly unfunny?

Any of you saddoes remember Timeslip?

Tigermoth - I loved the Goodies, i don't remember much about it but i juts remmeber it made me laugh! i loved the one with the giant kitten!

Enid - I remember Timeslip. I even had the paperback until recently. They really should show these again on UK Gold. They never seem to turn up on those "I Love The **ies" programmes.
Unless they do "I Love Sci-Fi" of course.

jodee, welcome to the planet "good taste"