What's your most-loved non-star movie/show?

Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?

No, Firefly doesn’t count as lesser-known.

Andromeda holds a place in my heart that it probably doesn’t really deserve. Definitely full of cheese, and the character of Dylan Hunt is awful.

I’ll probably still always love it, mainly because it came out when I was a kid.

Sorbo is a lot harder to like these days. The characters he played were all super cheesy though, so it’s hard to rewatch anything of his.

Space: Above & Beyond. I thought it had some interesting ideas that were never given a chance to be fully explored.
Babylon 5. It’s probably up there as #5 in your top 4, tbh.
Planet of the Apes. 1970s movies and TV series.

Space: Above & Beyond was also a classic network bait and switch where they were X-Wing pilots until the budget ran out, then they were the A-Team in space.

Yes, yes, something about “every Marine a rifleman” but still, teenage me was underwhelmed.

Planet of the Apes TV series is hilarious to me. It really feels like Coy & Vance Duke where sent to the Planet Of The Apes.

I remember really enjoying the Planet of the Apes TV series back when it was first broadcast and I was about 13. I haven’t seen it since then, and I think I’ll leave it that way. Why spoil a perfectly good memory?

Space: Above and Beyond was well ahead of its time, one of my favourite of the raft of mid-90s sci-fi that followed the success of TNG and early X-Files.

Babylon 5. It’s probably up there as #5 in your top 4, tbh.

For anyone considering watching it for the first time, I strongly recommend the Episode Guide. B5 came out in a unique time, where techy people were on usenet, but the wide internet wasn’t a thing yet. The writer J. Michael Straczynski was on Usenet discussing the show and answering questions, and the episode guide integrates that, so you can read along after each episode for an idea of the questions that came up at the time and his answers, without spoilers.

No, Firefly doesn’t count as lesser-known.

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Less Prestigious would be Flash Gordon; utterly camp and very fun. DIVE!

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. It’s a solid example of 80’s scifi, post-Star Wars and pre-Matrix. A little cheesy, a little Mad Max-y. And Molly Ringwald still makes me laugh.

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As my username suggests- I love ‘Lexx’.

It’s beautifully sleezy sci-fi fantasy and not nearly enough people know about it. I caught it on Netflix about 10 years ago but I think you can watch it on youtube now free with commercials.

Highly recommend to any fans of sci-fi, but especially if you loved stuff like Farscape and Red Dwarf.

Also shout out to ‘Avenue 5’. Hilariously dark sci-fi comedy that HBO criminally underpromoted. Also ‘Other Space’.

I don’t remember much of Lexx, but the song the Brunen-G sang will always be in my heart. Whatever it means.

I was looking for this one in the comments. Such a batshit crazy show that went in some very weird directions, and I absolutely loved it.

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