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)

Best scene from a film

- Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) singing Harry Styles' 'Sign of the Times', a scene that was not in the original script and was added by the actors Sandra Hüller and Ryan Gosling on their own accord. (Project Hail Mary, 2026)

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!
- 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)
Honourable mentions

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)