Good TV shows?

[myxomatosii]

If you're into SciFi

Star Trek (I've included a recommended starter episode in each series)


Star Trek: The Original Series (not even joking)
for nostalgia, background, and more
-- episode: the city on the edge of forever, shore leave, trouble with tribbles, the corbomite maneuver


Star Trek: The Next Generation
for philosophy, strategy, dialogue, introspection, and idealism
-- episode: lower decks, first contact, the inner light


Star Trek: Deep Space 9
for politics, seediness, backstabbing, reality, camaraderie, and lies (oh and lots of mirror . . heh) - and s38!
-- episode: the visitor, progress [the episode that gave my druid his name!]


Star Trek: Voyager
[precursor: the doctor is the best part of this series]
for technobabble, captain overmanagement, the worst vulcan, and a retarded crew
-- episode: death wish


Star Trek: Enterprise (better than people say it is, especially end of season 1 to the end of season 2)
[ugh time war]
for a crew made of plastic and hollywood, modern sparklies, shiny sets, and a true-to-form imagining of pre-kirk star trek
-- episode: the andorian incident, dear doctor, carbon creek, dead stop

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Firefly (obviously)
-- only 14 eps, extremely immersive, starts up quick


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Battle Star Galactica (all along the watch towers!)
-- one of the most intense and interesting first episodes in a series i've ever seen


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