Space, The Final Frontier

I'm only now starting to get into Star Trek (and it's various spin offs). My mom is a fan of the original with Capt James T. Kirk and my dad is a TNG/Picard guy. I haven't seen enough of all of it yet to declare a favorite. Let's just hope it all stays available on Netflix some I can get all caught up without having to buy the multitude of seasons and series.

Sites like this really come in handy.

Star Trek Minutiae.com - the Starfleet Academy stuff is pretty cool, because it breaks down those hard to understand astrophysics 

And these are just awesome for the pretty ship pics.

Starfleet Ships 1

Starfleet Ships 2

So Say We All

I blogged about Star Wars first because it was my earliest foray into science fiction, and thus remains my favorite by default of seniority. It has its issues, but what film/series doesn't? It is wonderful for it's mythos, pioneering, and good ol comforting nostalgia.

Third on my list is easily the redux of BSG. I'm not Mormon, or at least not anymore, but having grown up surrounded by that particular religious culture I couldn't help but glean some of the beliefs. Some may know this, some may not, but the Mormon mythology played very heavily on the writing of Battlestar Galactica. 

I never saw the original Battlestar Galatica, which lasted for one season in 1978, but I loved loved loved the remake that ran multiple seasons 2004-2009. When I first watched the pilot episodes to the remake I was quite lost. Thus I began at the beginning, with the prequel Caprica. I was instantly hooked with the characters, happenings, and over all establishment of the story. Sadly it was dropped after only 1 season.
All told, both Caprica and BSG were fantastic shows and I cannot recommend them enough. I have had discussions with other fans regarding the preference of the original versus the remake and people seem to like Edward James Olmos as Adama, whether or not they favor him over Lorne Greene I haven't heard. I think it's cool that Richard Hatch was in both. The one complaint that has been voiced many times is that Starbuck was a girl in the remake. I say it works anyway, besides...she's not very girlie.

Anyway, enough of the rambling here's some ships to ogle

 BSG ships

Can't Stop the Signal

Just barely behind Star Wars as my favorite sci-fi show/movie is Joss Whedon's Firefly and the subsequent "revival" movie Serenity.

I really can't say enough about this phenomenal series. I know I'm not alone in my feelings of being a Browncoat that would love to give the folks at Fox the finger. They should be bound and tossed to Reavers.

I have been Mal for Halloween at least twice, which is easy since I usually dress like that anyway (minus suspenders). I love translating random phrases in to Chinese. Hell, I even have a few pages of fan fic notes and ideas.

For all you other Firefly junkies out there that just can't get enough of the 'verse, check this out:

http://serenitytales.typepad.com/

It hasn't been updated in a while, but it's a great source of untold tales. My favorite is "The Black" by Bill Mudron because I've been a fan of his art for over 10 years now.

They also have a great script for "Browncoat".

On the Firefly wiki you can find the script for an episode titled Dead or Alive that was scrapped. I would love to try my hand at doodling panels for both this and "Browncoat", but I'd rather just sit back and watch the episode in my head.

In the meantime I settle for watching as many Firefly/Serenity related youtube videos as I can find.

Maybe later I'll post some of my fan fic ideas...