I think SG1 goes under ground-breaking because it combines the space & other exploration w/o being set in the future, which made it easier for a wider audience to relate to it. It is also the longest running SCI-FI besides Doctor Who, and without account all five separate Star Trek series --- which is six if you count the animated series.
Stargate also sports the largest fantastic of intense fans second only to the old fans of Star Trek, who flooded NASA with mail and phone calls in order to get the first atmosphere-flight capable reusable space shuttle named Enterprise.
In addition.. Babylon 5 should really be at the top of that list. Because it is B5. It broke the mold against the Star-Trek ish, and started the revolution of on-going episode -- even SEASON spanning plot-lines that were beyond "Oh look, this space alien again!"
And I hate to shoot down Firefly, but it is basically what Star Trek did when ST first came out. Star Trek was started off as Space-western. I enjoy Firefly as much as the next Sci-Fi fan, but really it wasn't that original of a concept. It was a combination of what the modern-day cult groupies demand: more sex, more action, and more conspiracies. It's an original Star Trek thrown into the modern standards. Gene Rodenberry sold the series to the producers as a Space-western, Sci-Fi intellects still credit as the original, and even Joss Whedon(sp) credit Star Trek as being a space-western.. at least in concerns to the Original series. Maybe the show later could have been ground breaking if it was allowed to flower, but the number of episodes hardly prove, in my opinion, that it is ground breaking. It is just... different. I hardly think it warrants being put in the same cagetory as the giants like Star Trek, Stargate, Space: Above & Beyond, Farscape (which was ground-breaking because if it's crackness).
I still give Firefly kudos for being fun.
PS. Star Wars is not a science-fiction. It is a fantasy with technology. I and most many examiners of the Sci-Fi genre as an intellectual point refuse to acknowledge it as a Sci-Fi. I like Star Wars, but I find it insulting to Sci-Fi to call Star Wars a science fiction.
I just realised I am a Sci-Fi snob. *hangs head and crawls back to her hole*
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Date: 2006-10-10 06:17 pm (UTC)From:Stargate also sports the largest fantastic of intense fans second only to the old fans of Star Trek, who flooded NASA with mail and phone calls in order to get the first atmosphere-flight capable reusable space shuttle named Enterprise.
In addition.. Babylon 5 should really be at the top of that list. Because it is B5. It broke the mold against the Star-Trek ish, and started the revolution of on-going episode -- even SEASON spanning plot-lines that were beyond "Oh look, this space alien again!"
And I hate to shoot down Firefly, but it is basically what Star Trek did when ST first came out. Star Trek was started off as Space-western. I enjoy Firefly as much as the next Sci-Fi fan, but really it wasn't that original of a concept. It was a combination of what the modern-day cult groupies demand: more sex, more action, and more conspiracies. It's an original Star Trek thrown into the modern standards. Gene Rodenberry sold the series to the producers as a Space-western, Sci-Fi intellects still credit as the original, and even Joss Whedon(sp) credit Star Trek as being a space-western.. at least in concerns to the Original series. Maybe the show later could have been ground breaking if it was allowed to flower, but the number of episodes hardly prove, in my opinion, that it is ground breaking. It is just... different. I hardly think it warrants being put in the same cagetory as the giants like Star Trek, Stargate, Space: Above & Beyond, Farscape (which was ground-breaking because if it's crackness).
I still give Firefly kudos for being fun.
PS. Star Wars is not a science-fiction. It is a fantasy with technology. I and most many examiners of the Sci-Fi genre as an intellectual point refuse to acknowledge it as a Sci-Fi. I like Star Wars, but I find it insulting to Sci-Fi to call Star Wars a science fiction.
I just realised I am a Sci-Fi snob. *hangs head and crawls back to her hole*