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Lushed_Lungfish lemmy.ca Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-14
#52 · Quote Reply

Warhammer 40k kicks in the door

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#53 · Quote Reply

It is a joke compared to the three mentioned. It's one series with a few shitty tv movies vs three whole franchises with multiple series, movies, books etc. that are all known by everyone, it's very much not the same.

B5 has a bunch of books too and there was B5 Crusade as its spinoff series which got Fireflyed.

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WoodScientist lemmy.world WoodScientist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-06
#54 · Quote Reply

I mean, they had some pretty serious moments. But the villains were cartoonishly villainous.

But the villains were cartoonishly villainous.

Unlike this guy.

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WoodScientist lemmy.world WoodScientist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-06
#55 · Quote Reply

Indeed

"We can't call it the Enterprise..."

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SatyrSack quokk.au SatyrSack@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-08-25
#56 · Quote Reply

Leave that air force propaganda show off this list.

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Thrawn lemmy.dbzer0.com Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-23
#57 · Quote Reply

The split is hard sci-fi / sci-fi fantasy.

I have always seen the soft/hard sci-fi as a sliding scale. I imagine it is like the mohs scale for minerals with diamonds as a 10.

Stuff like 2001 A Space Odyssey is a solid 10 until after HAL is shutdown and even with the bizarre ending it is fully in the "sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic" and still something like 8.5-9

Star Trek is pretty good about being internally consistent and having day to day stuff be pretty grounded but there is so much purely nonsense trecknobable that I only consider it a 6 out of 10.

Very different story and world but I would rate Stargate about the same. Maybe actually a bit higher. Mostly because it is a newer series that was better able to track its own weird stuff it had claimed and keep it consistent.

Star Wars something like 4.5. still gets ok because of mostly internal consistency but definitely leans strongly the fantasy elements that are mixed in.

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kingofras lemmy.world kingofras@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-05-13
#58 · Quote Reply

In Spanish is called tilde, in English you don't have a name for that so I use the Spanish name.

In English “á” is just an accentuated a, where a tilde is “~”

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SatyrSack quokk.au SatyrSack@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-08-25
#59 · Quote Reply

Of the four "Star" franchises: Wars, Trek, -gate, and Search, "-gate" is easily my third favorite.

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Tattorack lemmy.world Tattorack@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-28
#60 · Quote Reply

But the villains were cartoonishly villainous. Unlike this guy.

Oh he absolutely is. But when it comes to a competition of who channels classic moustache twirling hijinx the best, I think Apophis takes the cake.

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librekitty lemmy.today librekitty@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-07-11
#61 · Quote Reply

if i pick starcraft, does that make me non-trinary?

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#62 · Quote Reply

if i pick starcraft, does that make me non-trinary?

"What's in your pants?"

"5x5, in the pipe."

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WoodScientist lemmy.world WoodScientist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-06
#63 · Quote Reply

Oh he absolutely is. But when it comes to a competition of who channels classic moustache twirling hijinx the best, I think Apophis takes the cake.

It has to be so much fun to be an actor playing a Goa'uld. Forget subtlety, canonically your character is truly irredeemably evil by nature, born with the memories of a thousand Hitlers. As an actor, you just get to let it all out and let the evil freak flag fly. I bet Peter Williams had an absolute blast.

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night_petal piefed.social night_petal@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-27
#64 · Quote Reply

What about Lexx?

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groucho lemmy.sdf.org groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-13
#65 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile, in the cool sector of the universe:

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ForeverComical lemmy.ca UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-18
#66 · Quote Reply

I couldn’t get into The Orville. Seemed rather presumptuous that you can apply human morals to aliens.

You mean like in Star Trek?

Then I suggest something like Farscape.

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Autonomous lemmy.ml autonomous@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-11
#67 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile, Babylon 5

altr

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CookieOfFortune lemmy.world CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#68 · Quote Reply

You mean like in Star Trek? Then I suggest something like Farscape.

I feel like Star Trek did it better? They didn’t say Vulcan’s shouldn’t have Pon Farr, they worked together to solve the situation.

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Hupf feddit.org Hupf@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-24
#69 · Quote Reply

What about Lexx?

Mmh, kinky!

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magic_smoke lemmy.blahaj.zone magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-01-27
#70 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile, in the cool sector of the universe:

You'd have to be a real smeg head to do that.

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kinther lemmy.world kinther@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#71 · (edited) Quote Reply

Meanwhile, in the cool sector of the universe:

I mean, as long they clean it in between uses

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leftzero lemmy.dbzer0.com leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-08
#72 · (edited) Quote Reply

but where does that leave dune

Where it's always been, sitting on the Foundation trilogy's shoulders, while in turn supporting the rest of the whole genre on its own shoulders.

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#73 · Quote Reply

If I was recommending somebody how to watch B5 for the first time, I'd probably just say to skip the first season (as well as the pilot). In my opinion, Commander Sinclair is the weakest link in the acting, and he leaves after the first season. His replacement is a very good actor, in my opinion. Also, as far as acting goes, Ambassadors Mollari and G'Kar get more screen time as the series progr...

Sinclair is a good actor. He was just on the mental decline during filming.

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AnUnusualRelic lemmy.world AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
#74 · Quote Reply

In Spanish is called tilde, in English you don't have a name for that so I use the Spanish name.

It's called an acute accent.

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AnUnusualRelic lemmy.world AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
#75 · Quote Reply

but where does that leave dune

In the sand, most likely.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#76 · Quote Reply

B5 has a bunch of books too and there was B5 Crusade as its spinoff series which got Fireflyed.

Does that means it's making a comeback as well

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#77 · (edited) Quote Reply

Does that means it's making a comeback as well

They had an animated film in 2023 called The Road Home so they had a head start

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Ibuthyr feddit.org Ibuthyr@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-07-08
#78 · Quote Reply

If I was recommending somebody how to watch B5 for the first time, I'd probably just say to skip the first season (as well as the pilot). In my opinion, Commander Sinclair is the weakest link in the acting, and he leaves after the first season. His replacement is a very good actor, in my opinion. Also, as far as acting goes, Ambassadors Mollari and G'Kar get more screen time as the series progr...

Nice, i was hoping to hear something like this! I'll just stick to it. At the moment I'm enjoying a 2nd run of The Expanse, so I'll likely pick up Babylon 5 after that.

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#79 · Quote Reply

But which of them is submissive and breedable? Discuss.

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#80 · Quote Reply

And then in season 5 it gets way worse. Those middle three are alright, though.

Season five is fucking great when you know the circumstances. This was a show with a meticulously planned five year arc. They abruptly got told "yeah nah, we're cancelling you end of s4". So a massive, massive rewrite to roll up and finish off the Shadow war and just after they pulled it off "actually the ratings pulled up, you can have your fifth season"

With no more arc.

So they pulled the entire fifth season out of their arses in a very short span of time. With no more story to tell. And you know what? It's a fuckin' testament to the skill of those involved it turned out half decent

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#81 · Quote Reply

It is a joke compared to the three mentioned. It's one series with a few shitty tv movies vs three whole franchises with multiple series, movies, books etc. that are all known by everyone, it's very much not the same.

Lmao last b5 movie was released in 2023

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#82 · Quote Reply

Does that means it's making a comeback as well

They actually had one in the works then covid happened and then it was in development and then networks collapsed and studios ate each other and now the whole things in development hell

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#83 · Quote Reply

What about Lexx?

Furries

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Janx piefed.social Janx@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-19
#84 · Quote Reply

¡Es ño tilde señor!

¿Por qué hay una tilde en mis pantalones?

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