Five Science Fiction Shows You Just HAVE to Watch

After taking a day and a half to write my last post, my DC hero top ten list, I am taking another break from the DC Universe and today I am bringing you five scifi shows that are must see shows. Following this post I plan to rank all of the Star Trek films, I am not sure how long this will take me. Note, I have not ranked the five scifi shows, I don't believe I ever could. So without further ado, the five scifi shows you just HAVE to watch.



Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British scifi program aired on the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC. It's first run lasted 26 years from 1963 to 1989 and Doctor Who holds the Guniss Book record for longest running show.So far the second run of Doctor Who has been just as successful as the last and is currently in it's fifth season. The Doctor is a humanoid alien over nine hundred years old who travels through time and space usually with a young woman companion in his Time And Relative Dimensions In Space (TARDIS) which from the outside looks like a 1950s British police call box, and is much bigger on the inside. The Doctor's life consists of nothing but adventures, he travels to interesting events in Earth history as well as to alien worlds, and though he never intends to interfere, he always gets mixed up in whatever bizarre thing that is happening. The Doctor saves the world at least once a season, and sometimes he does it nearly every episode.

Firefly
Firefly is a space western that was created by writer and director Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and most recently Dollhouse. Nathan Fillion stars as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, who owns a Firefly class cargo ship called Serenity. In this version of the future many people do whatever they can to survive, and in the case of the Serenity crew this means taking on jobs that aren't exactly legal. While they aren't always on the right side of the law they do have morals that they follow (mostly) and this means that they do a fair amount of rescuing as well as robbing. Even going as far as getting a price on all their heads to return a shipment of medicines they stole in a train job.

Star Trek T.O.S.

You can't truly call yourself a fan of scifi without at least watching this show. Star Trek

was created by Gene Roddenberry in 1966 and it ran for three seasons before being canceled, stripped and put into syndication which allowed it to gain a large cult following in the 1970s. The show followed the crew of the Federation Starship Enterprise Captained by James T. Kirk, on a five year mission to explore new worlds and boldly go where no man has gone before. Important members of the crew include First Officer Mr. Spock, Cheif Medical Officer Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Communications Officer Leutenant Uhura, and Cheif Engineer "Scotty".

Torchwood

Torchwood is the hit spin off of Doctor Who, a darker, raunchier show than it's parent series. I see this show as a kind of British MIB ( Men In Black), the Torchwood Institute is one that operates outside the government and beyond the United Nations. Their mission is to monitor alien activity and harness alien technology. The Torchwood Institute was created by Queen Victoria on the same day that she both knighted and banished the tenth Doctor. Her eyes had been opened to the existence of aliens and she was determined to protect her empire against an attack from those aliens. The series follows Torchwood Three, a division of the Institute based in Cardiff, Whales where there is a rift in time and space. It is their duty to monitor anything coming in or out of that rift. The protagonist of the show is one Captain Jack Harkness, a former companion of the Doctor. Jack leads Torchwood Three which consists of Ianto Jones, Toshiko Saato, Owen Harper, and Gwen Cooper.

Star Trek T.N.G.
Set nearly a century after the original series, Star Trek the Next Generaltion follows the crew of a new Starship Enterprise, this time Captained by one Jean-Luc Picard. His crew includes First Officer Will Riker, Security Chief Worf, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Ship's Counsellor Deanna Troi, and Second Officer Data. This spin off was much more successful than it's parent show, running a full seven seasons, and then having four movies of it's own.