Star Trek for me, used to watch it (first time round) every week as a kid but by the time Star Wars came out I had discovered, girls, bikes & booze and so never saw the film until the late '90s when my kids watched it.
I'd have to take Trek (Next Gen - Picard's the only captain fit to be left in charge of anything, unlike flash vain Kirk, manager Sisko, the intensely annoying Janeway - why they never mutinied and beamed her into the void I don't know - or meh Jonathan Archer) over Wars. Babylon 5 is way better than Trek. Love the way the series develop - the whole story arc with hints in earlier series at things to come. One of the strengths of Bab 5 is the way that pretty much every main character is flawed, and yet develops and grows - the whole Molari/G'Kar relationship epitomises this. When I left my last job, my leaving present from colleagues was Amazon vouchers which I used to treat myself to the entire Bab 5 box set. I'm also another fan of Space Above and Beyond - if you like the original Starship Troopers, it had some of the same cynicism, although with less humour, and the same ambiguity about just who the good guys are. Quite liked Firefly - interesting vision, the Space Western - but still prefer Buffy from the Whedon oeuvre!
A mate of mine once finished with a girl (stunning she was too) who he'd been seeing for about 8 months because she talked through one of the Star Wars films they'd gone to see :biggrin:
Blake's 7 was a hoot. Jenna was hot (at the time), Servalan was very funny. My brother and I wrote her a fan letter as a bit of joke (she wasn't hot) and got back signed photos and a message! And the guy who played the cynic character was very funny too. Low budget, maybe, but amusing.
Yeah, yeah... Bloody natter away about tampax and knitting patterns, while the menfolk try and watch Arnie/Bruce/Jason save the world and get the girl.....then 45 mins later they're all "oh what's happening?"
Ah Blakes 7 I lived in the same town as Jenna back in 1977 and fell madly in love, from afar ,before her fame. I knew her father was a local doctor so it was easy to find her phone number . I called her about 3 times, but each time the phone was answered by her father who made some excuse about Sally not being in. Perseverance paid off however as I eventually got to speak to her on the phone and ask her out, which was a bit of a cheeky long shot as she had never met me. I would love to be able to relay tales of wild passion but my offer to take her out was declined. Now she's 61 I have lost the passion! Here's an interview with Sally:Interview with Sally Knyvette by Alan Stevens
