Poll. Where did you build your sci-fi culture?

Zeus Cubed

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Just to chat... what's the cmdr average space culture? How did you fall in love with hyperspace jumps? It seems to me that there is a common cultural background that takes some concept for a fact: hyperjumps, mass lock, gas giant mining for fuel... they are all recounted in the same way in many a novel.

So I start the poll. My favorite sci-fi cmdr is captain Joshua Calvert. Yours?
 

Mohrgan

Mohrgan
It's all about the Kirk. I am an unabashed Star Trek fan. As for science fiction, being as old as I am, I still go back to Burroughs, Verne, et al.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
DWorth said:
Pfft The Culture doesn't have starship commanders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Although one of their ships might manufacture you a uniform and let you pretend for a bit if you asked it.
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Oh, if we are allowed Culture vessels then I'd definitely go with the 'Falling Outside The Normal Moral Contraints'.

Abominator class General Offensive Unit. Has a reputation to live up to.

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Mohrgan said:
It's all about the Kirk. I am an unabashed Star Trek fan. As for science fiction, being as old as I am, I still go back to Burroughs, Verne, et al.
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Seaton, Kim Kinnison, ...
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
Star Trek Voyager, TNG, and of course Star Wars were the things that got me into sci-fi back when I was a little kid. The Lost in Space movie and old TV series were a big influence as well. I was building and painting a model of the Jupiter 2 at 8 and going to sci-fi conventions at 13 and painting and decal-ing a resin model of the USS Prometheus at 16, and now, years later, adorning my house with replicas of every Enterprise and countless space fighters from across the sci-fi spectrum. I still tune in to BBC America every Monday to watch Voyager re-runs. So much nostalgia!

As for favorite commander, I'm not really sure. I was always more about the ships and tech than the people. Picard was pretty cool (specifically Enterprise-E Picard). Janeway was cool too. And Kirk, obviously. And of course who can forget Commander Sheppard from the Mass Effect franchise?
 
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Yaffle

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Yaffle
Asimov. HG Wells. Jules Verne. Star Wars (proper 1977 version). Harry Harrison. Silent Running. Blake's 7. 1984. Alien, Aliens. And an odd children's book called 'Skiffy.'

Does The Clangers count?
 
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WR3ND

WR3ND
Hmm... Probably initially from the "children's fiction" that started around the Victorian and Edwardian eras which evolved into fantasy and science fiction as we know them now.

Books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and so on. Even stories about Sherlock Holmes. There was always such a compelling sense of adventure and wonder.

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But yeah, more contemporary sci-fi, Star Trek and Star Wars, The Black Hole, E.T., 2001, The Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator, and so on.
 
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Red Anders

Red Anders
GreyAreaUK said:
Blake.
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I was born in '71. Mum took me to see Star Wars at the cinema, that started it. Then about a year later Blake's 7 was what really sealed the deal.

I watched a few of them again not too long back and although it obviously looks hilariously dated, the actual story content holds up surprisngly well. It's also quite surprising to see a character as morally ambiguous as Avon in something so old; he would have been right at home in something as recent as the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
Red Anders said:
I was born in '71. Mum took me to see Star Wars at the cinema, that started it. Then about a year later Blake's 7 was what really sealed the deal.

I watched a few of them again not too long back and although it obviously looks hilariously dated, the actual story content holds up surprisngly well. It's also quite surprising to see a character as morally ambiguous as Avon in something so old; he would have been right at home in something as recent as the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
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Chris Boucher's scripting between the crew is excellent.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Red Anders said:
I was born in '71. Mum took me to see Star Wars at the cinema, that started it. Then about a year later Blake's 7 was what really sealed the deal.

I watched a few of them again not too long back and although it obviously looks hilariously dated, the actual story content holds up surprisngly well. It's also quite surprising to see a character as morally ambiguous as Avon in something so old; he would have been right at home in something as recent as the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
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It was certainly far from the bright, hopeful future that Star Trek portrayed. And I still love the design of the Liberator.
 

Wyaston Hypatia

Wyaston Hypatia
The first was Asimov's Lucky Starr series when I was around ten. Then the Foundation series a couple of years later.
Dune was really the book that took it to a whole different level for me though.
 
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IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Product of the 70's here as well.. grew up on Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, even Barbarella, Heavy Metal, 2001, 2010, Alien and all the sequels - pretty much if it had space in it, I was there.
Always wanted to be an astronaut myself, but I'm too tall, hate calculus, and would almost certainly misbehave in microgravity.

Never much for reading sci-fi books though - read Tolkin, Lovecraft, King, and Lumley mostly.. dunno, it's fun to watch sci-fi but more fun to read horror. Don't mind watching it, but... reading it is better.
 

yah-ta-hey

yah-ta-hey
AHHHH Yesssss.... EE SMITH and the lensmen
lots of short stories by heinlin, asimov, and others too many to count. First Contact: a marvelous read and shows how to dissimilar life forms can meet and survive.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Yaffle said:
Chris Boucher's scripting between the crew is excellent.
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The scripting overall was superb. I still love the end of 'Sarcophagus', with Avon and the possessed Cally:

Alien/Cally: I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant! The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualise that pain and much more. You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon, irrevocable...
Avon: I have thought about it, what's keeping you?
Alien/Cally: What did you say?
Avon: You claim you can kill me. You'd better get on with it. Make me die. There's nothing else you can make me do.
 
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