Entertainment

I'll start: my personally favorite sci fi that that I wish more people knew about is Orphan Black. It features Tatiana Maslany really showing off her acting prowess. Basically, she plays a street rat who encounters an identical but well off version of herself who jumps in front of a train. In discovering this apparent twin's life, she realizes there's yet more of her and that they're being killed off.

The cast, both Tatiana and not-Tatiana, are really good at embodying their characters and the world is neat at showing something that could actually be happening under our noses this second.

Edit: here's a low spoiler example

The Expanse was consistently amazing. Some of the episodes were so good they left me speechless.

33. First episode of Battlestar Galactica after the mini series.

That was groundbreaking for a sci fi television show. People were, tired, angry, scared and drunk. So much different than anything than anything that had come before it.

Also, seeing real physics and sounds in a space battle was rad.

Its probably a common answer, but "Measure of a Man" from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It makes me hope for a future like that, where people can settle their problems by talking it out and debating, and even change their minds. Whenever I think about what Star Trek is really about, I think about Measure of a Man. Its such a shame Paramount's Picard show disrespected it so badly.

Oh, so Star Trek. Not everybody thinks of Voyager when they think about top episodes but for me ‘Living Witness’ is not just the best Voyager episode, but the best Trek episode.

It’s amazingly well acted both with the Doctor in the dramatic lead, and the snippets of the evil Voyager crew being fun. That all supports an episode that has a message that really speaks to me about not turning history into a narrative, especially an agenda pushing narrative. Letting history be learned as honestly as possible rather than using it to gain some cynical personal gain.

Someone has to mention Firefly and "Our Mrs. Reynolds." It features such incredible lines as

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

"I see that my days off not taking you seriously have come to a middle."

Not to mention the fantastic Christina Hendricks as Saffron.

Can i suggest a British classic? No not that one, the other one!

Red dwarf isn't even thought of as Sci fi to a lot of people in the UK, but it served as my introduction to comedy sci fi and even just a lot of Sci fi concepts in general.

Hilarious, clever, thoughtful, interesting are some words I'd use to describe Red Dwarf and I'll recommend it to anyone who wants to watch the classic British comedy Sci fi

I just realised I'd made a post about one of my favourite shows just before seeing yours.

Space: Above and Beyond which is available on YouTube these days.

A really solid show.

I'm also very much enjoying The Orville at the moment.