Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Science Fiction Best Of Lists

Best films
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Galaxy Quest (1999)
3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
4. Wall-E (2008)
5. Iron Sky (2012)
6. The 5th Element (1997)
7. Alien (1979)
8. Pitch Black (2000)
9. Mars Attacks! (1996)
10. Serenity (2005)

Best non-English film
- Ikarie XB 1 (Czechoslovakia, 1963)

Best series
1. Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) (1966-1969)
2. Star Trek: Voyager, Season 4-7 (1997-2001)
3. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2 (2023)
4. The Orville, Season 3 (2022)

Best episode from a series
1. Relativity (Star Trek: Voyager, 1999)
2. Proving Ground (Star Trek: Enterprise, 2004)
3. Subspace Rhapsody (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 2023)
4. Those Old Scientists (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 2023)

Favourite characters (male)
1. Shran (Jeffrey Combs, Star Trek: Enterprise, 2001-2005)
2. Spock (Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek: TOS, 1966-1969)
3. James T. Kirk (William Shatner, Star Trek: TOS, 1966-1969)
4. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley, Star Trek: TOS, 1966-1969)
5. Second Pilot of Moya (voiced by Lani Tupu, Farscape, 1999-2002, 2004)

Favourite characters (female)
1. Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan, Star Trek: Voyager, 1995-2001)
2. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew, Star Trek Voyager 1995-2001)
3. Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black, Farscape, 1999-2002, 2004)
4- Rebecca „Beka“ Valentine (Lisa Ryder, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, 2000-2005)
5. Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell, Pitch Black, 2000)

Favourite side character (screen time < 10 minutes)
- Refractions of Dawn (Elizabeth Thai, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, 2000-2005)

Best space ship design
- Andromeda Ascendant (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, 2000-2005)

Best apocalyptic/disaster film
- Deep Impact (1998)

Best post-apocalyptic films
- Konec srpna v hotelu Ozon (Late August at the Hotel Ozone) (1967)
- Endzeit (Ever After) (2018)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)

Best dystopian films
- Soylent Green (1973)
- 1984 (1984)
- V for Vendetta (2005)

Best film taking time-travel seriously
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Most disturbing horror sci-fi
- Phase IV (1974)

Best films with alternative realities/identities
- Total Recall (1990)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- eXistenZ (1999)

Best direction (film)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

Best direction (series episode)
- Proving Ground (David Livingston, Star Trek: Enterprise, 2004)

Best camera
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Geoffrey Unsworth, 1968)

Best edit
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Ray Lovejoy, 1968)

Best screenplay (film)
- Galaxy Quest (David Howard, Robert Gordon, 1999)

Best screenplay (series episode)
- Relativity (Nick Sagan, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Star Trek Voyager, 1999)

Best soundtrack (film)

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Best soundtrack (series episode)
- Subspace Rhapsody (Tom Polce, Kay Hanley, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 2023)

Best theme song
- Babylon 5 (Christopher Franke, 1993-1998)

Best special effects (film)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Best costumes and set design (film)
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Best costumes and set design (series)
- Babylon 5 (1993-1998)

Best 3D effects
- Avatar (2009)

Best film adaption of a novel

- 1984 (1984)

Best quote
- "The Andorian Mining Consortium runs from no one." (Shran, Proving Ground, Star Trek: Enterprise, 2004)

Outstanding performance of an actor
- Jeffrey Combs for portraying
-- Shran (Star Trek: Enterprise, 10 episodes, 2001-2005)
-- Weyoun (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 24 episodes, 1993-1999)
-- Harriman Gray (Babylon 5, Eyes, 1994)
-- Penk (Star Trek: Voyager, Tsunkatse, 2000)
-- Krem (Star Trek: Enterprise, Acquisition, 2002)
-- Brunt (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 7 episodes, 1993-1999)
-- Tiron (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Meridian, 1994)
and for the fact that I have not realised that all characters are played by the same actor!

Honourable mentions
- Alan Rickman for portraying Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus (Galaxy Quest, 1999)
- Walter Koenig for portraying
-- Alfred Bester (Babylon 5, 12 episodes, 1993-1998)
-- Pavel Chekov/Kittrick (Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, 2008)

Outstanding performance of an actress
- Sigourney Weaver for portraying Ripley (Alien (1979)

Honourable mentions
- Jeri Ryan for portraying Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager, seasons 4-7 (1997-2001)
- Michelle Yeoh for portraying
-- Philippa Georgiou (Star Trek: Discovery, seasons 1-3, 2017-2021)
-- Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022)

Best novels
1. Karel Capek: Válka s Mloky (War with the Newts) (1936)
2. Karel Capek: R.U.R. (1920)
3. George Orwell: 1984 (1949)
4. Daniel Suarez: Daemon/Freedom (2009-2010)