At this site, you can view a poll of the best science fiction shows of all time. You can vote for 10 so you might want to pick an obscure one that you think only you remember fondly just to see if you can move that show several slots up the list!

http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/to...i/lists_tv.html

Hey Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is on rank 8! But that could be better

I quote Naddel: I think that DS9 is the best Trek series.
I'm not agree with the presence of Lost in this graduatory.


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Yes, you´re right Annaclaudia. Lost is no science fiction TV series.
I think Lost belongs to the category action series.

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I think it's a fantasy series.
I read the poll again. I can't stand Firefly is so down!


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Thanks, TOC. That was fun seeing all the old shows I used to watch listed on there. Some were pretty funny!

I could see how Lost could be considered a Sci-Fi show. I mean, come on, that kind of stuff really does not happen anywhere on earth that I know of!

It's fantasy. I think they should have split out shows such as Lost, Buffy, Angel, etc. into a fantasy category, but instead they just lumped them in with science fiction.

I did smile when I saw Quark on the list. Anyone else remember that Richard Benjamin satire?

Carol

Technically Sci-Fi and fantasy are the same.

If it's got magic or demons, it's fantasy. Harry Potter is fantasy.

Science fiction is based on imagined technology. Star Trek is science fiction.

Sure, both may have invisibility cloaks, for example, but Harry's will involve magic while in Star Trek it will be based on alien technology.

Think of Joss Whedon, for example. He does both. Serenity is science fiction whereas Buffy the Vampire Slayer is fantasy. My favorite author Lois McMaster Bujold has three fantasy novels out, but she's written nearly a dozen science fiction ones. The rules are different. Things can happen in a fantasy novel that can't happen in science fiction. Sure Harry Potter and Dr. Bashir might both ride a broom, but Bashir's better have some sort of anti-gravity flux-capasitor attached or I'm not buying it!

Carol

A lot of the mysteries on Lost, with regards to the island, are being revealed to have technological origins. I think that's why it's being called a sci-fi show as opposed to fantasy a la Supernatural and Ghost Whisperer.

Mel, there were all kinds of fantasy shows on that list so even if Lost is science fiction (which would mean Walt has some kind of technology allowing him to manufacture polar bears), it still is a list including both genres.

Carol

So did you email the creators and tell them that? They must have some justification for including fantasy shows on the list. Or maybe they just wanted to generate discussion among sci-fi purists.

And they succeeded!
BUT! DS9 is way better than Stargate SG-1. Hands down. I love SG-1, but... DS9 is amazing.
Trekkies and Trekkers beat Gaters anyday. (I'm both!)