Meanwhile, Babylon 5
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The best Star Trek series was Babylon 5, just like how the best Star Trek movie was Galaxy Quest.
So, I just started Babylon 5 and find it to be quite shit actually. Does it get better? It's really just bad acting and not really engaging. I'm 4 episodes in.
The first season had the TV execs meddling to make it be like ST:TNG because they wanted to mimic the popular thing at the time.
The writer got his way starting in season 2 and got to tell his story without the meddling.
Yes it gets better is what I’m saying. 🙂
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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 progresses, and I think they're both great actors.
The first season does have a lot of background that sets up later seasons, and I've grown to like it, but I've seen the entire series probably over 10 times now, and for the first 3-4 times, I disliked the first season.
Sinclair is a good actor. He was just on the mental decline during filming.
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I thought the best Star Trek series is The Orvil?
I couldn’t get into The Orville. Seemed rather presumptuous that you can apply human morals to aliens.
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The best modern one, yes.
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TIL I’m genderfluid.
Just like water in Spanish: el água / las águas.
This is only because spanish doesn't like repeating "a" sounds like la agua would have since it can create ambiguity in the sentence. If agua was la agua the words would probably eventually end up smushed together making lagua instead.
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You forgot an older one:
The collective fandom of Star Fox looks at one another awkwardly.
We don't talk about the furries.
Not because we don't like them, but because that shit's complicated
It was never the same once Fox had to gather bafomdads...
Firefly?? Farscape?
My champion:
I'm so fluid right now.
There are only two genders! Sci-fi and fantasy! And I lay with both!
Battlestar won't stand for this indignation!
I'm pretty sure Stargate is a slur when used this way.
Meanwhile, in the cool sector of the universe: 
You'd have to be a real smeg head to do that.
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Is it too much to want them all?
Does this mean I'm non-trinary?
if i pick starcraft, does that make me non-trinary?
"What's in your pants?"
"5x5, in the pipe."
What about Starhunter?
(please don't tell me I'm the only one who ever watched this absolute trashfest of a series 😅)
As much as I like ragging on some Star Trek series, at least they're not Stargate series.
Stargate had this thing where they pretended to be extremely serious but in reality they were about as serious as their spiritual predecessors Sliders and Quantum Leap.
I guess you haven't watched SG then. They are just at the right level of taking themselves seriously and taking the piss.
Some episodes are very serious, others are pure silliness.
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Where is Raumpatrouille Orion?
Warhammer 40k kicks in the door
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