Poll: The best Sci-Fi universe.

[Paul Hearding]

but what about... Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)?

Indeed

 

[Christopher Dudgeon]

Babylon 5, the show STS9 ripped off just because they could.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Pitch Black.

 

[spartandude]

Warhammer 40k. Sure it would suck to live in that universe but its just soo over the top balls to the wall awesome its impossible to not love it.

/thread

 

[Voodoomancer]

This

 

[Christian Lerche]

Mass Effect, and I'd only live in it if I was a spectre, and my last name was Sheppard, first name, donkey, Spectre Donkey Sheppard. Yeah.

 

[Squilookle]

I would so easily have voted for Star Wars but then I saw you had Stargate there as well! Argh! How do I decide?

After all, Stargate isn't as wide reaching, but it's qualitly is far more consistent...

Oh wait- there was Atlantis. That's pretty much the prequel trilogy for Stargate right there

 

[Mana Fiend]

Farscape and Firefly are high on my list but i think Doctor Who would be the best one. Now the show is mediocre but the universe is cool.

My one problem with (at least) the new series of Who is that there's very little grey area when it comes down to races. They tend to be either completely evil (Dalek, Cybermen, Sontaran, etc) or completely good (the Ood when not controlled by the Beast, and... well, that's about all I can think of). Humans seem to be the only grey.

Not seen enough of the old series of comment on that.

My vote goes to Star Trek, as it seems to be the one that I, personally, could survive in. If I had main-character type levels of heroics, I'd take the Firefly universe any day.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

i recon that poll is missing a few options tbh...

Stargate
Battlestar galactica

probably more, but those to are much larger then firefly atleast

Fixed that for ya.

 

[Doug]

I can't say I have a favourite! Its like trying to decide which of your kids you love the most.

About the only ones I don't like are the ones with constant and serious inconstancies in their plots - I mean, you can't be perfect all of the time, but shody work is shody work - I'm looking at you Star Wars and Star Trek.

Given the choices listed, I would have agreed with you on both counts

http://www.piggymoo.com/futurama/futurama.jpg
Who can honestly say they wouldn't love it here?

Well, true! BUT thats more a case of a sci-fi universe that is allowed inconsistences

Edit: Btw, you did get that I meant Star Wars and Star Trek are really inconsistant and I wouldn't want to live there, right?

 

[That's Funny]

I think Alien universe (excluding 2001 a Space odyssey of course) is the only one that I think takes a more realistic approach to space travel.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

I personally vote Dune, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

 

[Doug]

I think Alien universe (excluding 2001 a Space odyssey of course) is the only one that I think takes a more realistic approach to space travel.

Firefly - all sub light, all in-system. Although they left it until the movie to confirm that, heh.

 

[fullbleed]

Blade Runner man! It just can't be beat, though it was a really close call between this and Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Continuity]

I thin k there is a lot to be said for startrek, we all take it for granted but I think its brought us more than any other franchise.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Warhammer 40K. Plenty of stuff to shoot at.

 

[matt87_50]

star wars. despite the fact (or maybe because of it) that we got to see sweet f**k all of it in the movies. what we did see set my imagination on fire.

stargate's was a bit campy
firefly's was a bit depressing

starwars had Robots, epic Tech, aliens, Han Solo, AND magic, and the most respected warriors in the galaxy fought each other with swords... LASER swords... can't go past that.