Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:29:55 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 5 Best Sf
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/9/2006 10:37 PM, Steve Stiles wrote:
> >>Mike B. wrote:
>
> >Sci-Fi channel has a really good Friday Night lineup, with BSG, SG-1 and
> >SG-Atlantis...and they started the new season last Friday!
>
>I have enjoyed the two Star Gate series-- good casts, engaging plots, nice
>productions-- but they're more on the level of the various versions of Star
>Trek.

I think it depends what aspect you look at.  They do try to keep the
science accurate enough...at least the terminology (no mixing up "galaxy"
and "solar system" the way Firefly did) and what is currently known or
theorized about things like worm holes, relativity, spacial distances,
etc., which is something Star Trek was pretty sloppy with.  They also don't
dumb down the plots too much to cater the the science illiterate (like the
episode where they exploded a star by feeding it an open star gate...if you
don't understand how stars work, that would have been pretty mystifying).
On the other hand, they do keep "entertaining" at the top of the priority
list, even if that ends up having the characters acting out of character
for the position they are supposed to be in (like O'Neil joking or
insulting Earth's allies and enemies, or government officials, at
inappropriate times).

-- Mike B.

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