Star Trek: First Contact - Ronald D. Moore's fingerprints are all over this, now that BSG has taught me to recognize them. Great, great Star Trek movie. Knocks my socks off.
Babylon 5, tail end of Season 2 - Wow. I had borrowed season 2 from friends for a very long time, and decided it was time to return the discs, since I watched the first few episodes a few months back, and never quite got into the swing of watching... but then I said "ok, I'll just watch another episode or two first" and got caught up in watching the end of the show. "Comes the Inquisitor" and "The Fall of Night" still hit me like a brick.
Battlestar Galactica - I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or relieved by recent developments. Either way, the heavy-handed allegory to modern times can please stop soon, maybe.
Doctor Who - the most recent episode (The Girl in the Fireplace) was a good tight bit of sci-fi writing that I enjoyed. I'm impressed with the tenth Doctor, so far; as impressed as I was with #9.
Star Trek, "So How Much For Just The Planet?" - very, very unimpressive. A big steaming pile of fanfic in published form. I wonder what it looked like when read in its actual context.
"Singularity Sky" - neat sci-fi, excellent use of actual physics. Good characters, mostly, though given the implied universe that existed "out there" having the story stuck where it was felt kind of like we were missing out on the best possibilities. I hear there's a sequel; I hope to read it at some point.
Current reading: "Family Tree," Sheri S. Tepper.
Babylon 5, tail end of Season 2 - Wow. I had borrowed season 2 from friends for a very long time, and decided it was time to return the discs, since I watched the first few episodes a few months back, and never quite got into the swing of watching... but then I said "ok, I'll just watch another episode or two first" and got caught up in watching the end of the show. "Comes the Inquisitor" and "The Fall of Night" still hit me like a brick.
Battlestar Galactica - I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or relieved by recent developments. Either way, the heavy-handed allegory to modern times can please stop soon, maybe.
Doctor Who - the most recent episode (The Girl in the Fireplace) was a good tight bit of sci-fi writing that I enjoyed. I'm impressed with the tenth Doctor, so far; as impressed as I was with #9.
Star Trek, "So How Much For Just The Planet?" - very, very unimpressive. A big steaming pile of fanfic in published form. I wonder what it looked like when read in its actual context.
"Singularity Sky" - neat sci-fi, excellent use of actual physics. Good characters, mostly, though given the implied universe that existed "out there" having the story stuck where it was felt kind of like we were missing out on the best possibilities. I hear there's a sequel; I hope to read it at some point.
Current reading: "Family Tree," Sheri S. Tepper.
Comments
ST:HM4JTP: It was still a big pile of fanfic in published form when read in its actual context. (I probably read it when it first came out and I still recognized it as that.) Kinda fun, though. John M. Ford's other ST novel, The Final Reflection, is much much MUCH better. It does for Klingons what Diane Duane did for Romulans.
ie - New Capica == Iraq
... or something like that.
(and I am not meaning to pick on you,
Still, having finally watched Friday's episode tonight, it looks like that particular allegory has run its course.
I'm working my way through S3 of B5 right now. I'd say somewhere in the middle of season 2 is when the show really hooked me.