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Science Fiction, or 'Sci-Fi' as it's generally known for short, is an absolutely bloody wonderful genre.

I've loved being a Science Fiction fan for as long as I can remember. Getting into the genre as a young child in the early 1990's, I can remember first watching Doctor Who on VHS Video's, and watching classic 1960's Gerry Anderson series 'Stingray', 'Thunderbirds' and 'Captain Scarlet' on BBC1 or BBC2, either of the two channels, as well as repeats of 'Star Trek - The Original Series' on those same channels and brand new episodes of 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' when that series was still in production. I can also recall being scared shitless by 'The X-Files', and even more scared of 'The Outer Limits', which apparently I didn't know until many years later was actually a remake of an older version of the same series from decades before.

My first taste of Science Fiction films was on VHS Video's too, with the likes of the original 'Star Wars' films, and the likes of 'Alien', 'Aliens' [never saw the other two until many years later my dad never had the 3rd and 4th 'Alien' films on VHS Video until he got the DVD's years later], 'Predator', 'Terminator' and 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day'.

There are so many things about Science Fiction one can love, so instead of going through a long bloody list of so much that I love about the genre, here's a kind of top 10 thing's I simply love about Science Fiction.

ENJOY !

A L I E N S
One of the great things I love about Science Fiction is the fact that all life in the universe doesn't have to look like the classic grey, or sometimes green, big headed, big eyes, small body look aliens that often get seen in TV series like 'The X-Files' or documentaries about UFO abduction's and the like. After all, if aliens looked like those from the aforementioned 'X-Files', I think we'd all find Science Fiction to be a pretty dull and pathetic genre.

There is truly something I find rather unnerving about the idea that there are alien's in Science Fiction who look completely like us, and the scary thing is not knowing that they are aliens, or people taken over by aliens in some form [just look at the John Carpenter classic 'The Thing' and you get what I mean about unnerving]. Sometimes off course human look aliens don't look entirely human, because they might have pointy ears like Mr.Spock and his fellow Vulcan's from 'Star Trek' or spots that look like a sort of leopard print on the skin that go from the top of your head right down to your feet like with Jadzia Dax and later on Ezri Dax in the spin-off 'Star Trek - Deep Space Nine'.

And then off course there are those aliens who look absolutely nothing like a human or a typical 'X-Files' like alien visitor. The kind I tend to like of nasty aliens tend to be the likes of the Xenomorphs from the various 'Alien' films, the aforementioned 'Thing' from John Carpenter, or even the Predator's from the 'Predator' films.

Course, it should be remembered that not all aliens are out right bloody evil, there are plenty of good hearted ones who mean us no harm and just want to live peacefully among us, just look at Tom Baker's 4th Doctor in Doctor Who, happily offering Jelly Babies to humans, fellow Time Lords and nasty alien villains like Dalek creator Davros . . he looks human and yet he isn't, but at least you know the Doctor is an alien you can trust . . even if you really don't know his true name which I guess for some people can be quite worrying, especially when as children we are told "never accept sweets from strangers !" . . ha, never stops the Doctor when he offers you a Jelly Baby thou does it !!

S P A C E S H I P S
Spaceships are very important when it comes to making great Science Fiction. It's great that now in this day and age of the 21st century, we seem to have finally moved on from Sci-Fi's involving the old fashioned bloody classic flying saucer type ship's of the 1950's [well, unless your Daleks, they seem to have a fondness for saucer shaped Dalek craft in the new series of Doctor Who since 2005 !].

It's amazing the amount of different designs we've been blessed to have seen over the decades of spaceships, and it's nice that they don't all have to belong to aliens out to invade the universe, such as the Nostromo from 'Alien' to the Jupiter Mining Corporation mining ship 'Red Dwarf' from the Sci-Fi comedy of the same name.

There are many legendary ships in Science Fiction, with Starfleet's legendary starships that share the name 'Enterprise' from the 'Star Trek' universe, to Han Solo's fantastic flying piece of junk the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars', to International Rescues space rocket Thunderbird 3 from Gerry Anderson's 'Thunderbirds', and let's not forget the most legendary of all Science Fiction spaceships, and perhaps when seen from the outside the most bizzare one of the lot, the Time And Relative Dimensions In Space machine, the Tardis from Doctor Who, which is, no debate, hands down, truly the best ship in the universe . . and in all Science Fiction too !!

Another thing I love about spaceships is the various attack craft we've seen down the decades, commonly known by names such as 'Starfighters'. The Rebel Alliance with their B, X and Y-Wing's from the original 'Star Wars' Trilogy [and the more recently introduced V-Wing of 2005's 'Revenge of the Sith' or the even more recent U-Wing from 'Rogue One' back in 2016], to the Colonial Viper's of 'Battlestar Galactica', the alien attack ships from 'Independance Day', and even the Death Gliders of the Gou'uld from 'Stargate SG-1'. Starfighters have always been really impressive to me over the years in many Sci-Fi's. I think the worst sadly must be the UFO Interceptors from Gerry Andersons 'UFO', all they do is fire one missile and if it misses then that's that, no other weapons to use !.

I highly recommend checking out this monster of an upload from Deviant Art user Dirk Loechel called 'Size comparison - Science Fiction spaceships' which is a massive upload which is still being updated regularly, featuring ships from various TV series, films, etc . . sadly lacks the Tardis from Doctor Who but that's perfectly understandable since she'd be a tiny dot compared to the rest of them when it comes to her Police Box exterior www.deviantart.com/art/Size-Co…

T I M E    T R A V E L
Time travel is quite an interesting subject with Science Fiction. Almost every Sci-Fi I've ever known has involved the concept in some shape or form. The most annoying thing about the subject of time travel is the headache inducing problem of paradoxes, and boy there are all sorts of those, such as the film 'Groundhog Day' which is a film I personally can't stand because of the very reason of reliving the same day over and over and over again driving you up the wall . . thou I will make an exception for the classic 'Stargate SG-1' episode which is also called 'Groundhog Day' in which the characters Jack O'Neill and Teal'c relieve the same day over and over, but it get's a lot funnier later on as seen in this clip with the antics the two do and get away with www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkNI_t…

One of my all time favourite examples of time travel is the 1975 Doctor Who adventure 'Pyramids of Mars' where the 4th Doctor shows his companion Sarah Jane Smith what Earth would look like as a ravaged and destroyed planet in 1980 if the stories villian Sutekh the Destroyer was not stopped, something which the Doctor referred too as 'alternative time'.

'The Terminator' films are another great example of time travel making for interesting Science Fiction [probably best avoid 'Terminator Genysis', that one totally destroyed everything from the previous 4 Terminator films].

The one time travel based franchise I have personally always had a real dislike is the 'Back to the Future' films, because no matter how many times I've watched them, they just get even more and more complicated that I lose what on earth is going on that I would need diagrams and pointy arrows to help explain all the confusing plot points and elements that go into those films, cos I do tend to have an excellant grasp of time travel [honest ] but for some reason 'Back to the Future' films give me a headache when I see two Marty McFly's in 1955 during a dance of his mum and dad and I'm trying to work out how both Marty's are there at the same time or which Marty arrived at their parent's dance first !!.

Please don't try explaining it to me, you'll probably just end up confusing me even further !! I don't understand this shit !

W E A P O N R Y
Weapons these days in Science Fiction do tend to be pretty bloody amazing. It's great that the old fashioned 'Ray Guns' are thankfully now a thing of the past and we've been blessed with so much epic weaponry in the genre of Science Fiction that it's no longer all "pow pow, gotcha sucker !" like it used to be.

Lightsabers from 'Star Wars' to this day are still a popular classic Sci-Fi weapon and have been every fan's dream for them to be made real for the last 41 years [yes, I too would love a real working Lightsaber . . just don't make me angry thou, otherwise it may cost you an arm or a leg, and you'll probably end up saying "tis a fleshwound !" like the stupid black knight from the 'Monty Python' film 'The Holy Grail'].

One of my favourite hand held weapons is the Zat'nik'tel, or 'Zat gun' for short from 'Stargate SG-1', a Gou'uld weapon where if you shot someone with it, it knocks them out and causes the victim great pain. Shoot them with it twice and it kills the victim, and finally shoot them a third time with it, they disappear into nothing . . my dad's wanted one for Christmas for years, ha ha !!

H E R O E S
Science Fiction has so many heroes of all sorts. Some are ordinary human being's who may make use of alien technology, such as the team SG-1 from 'Stargate SG-1' or Captain Jack Harness and his Torchwood operatives from 'Torchwood', and then offcourse their are heroes with super powers like Superman to the more recent heroes of the Marvel cinematic universe such as 'The Avengers' films.

For so many of us without a shadow of a doubt, the ultimate hero is the Time Lord known as the Doctor from Doctor Who, and while he may lack super powers, his always got his trusty old Sonic Screwdriver which is always been updated with new settings [crap against wood thou, or for that matter anything with a deadlock seal], and then off course he uses his most important 'weapon' to win his battles which is his mind and all the knowledge his gathered through the centuries of travelling through space and time in his Tardis, and off course one of the most amazing thing's about the Doctor is his ability to stay away from death by undergoing an occational regeneration, changing the appearance, voice, personality and attiude of the Doctor . . and as seen more recently, his gender [ grrrrrr].

V I L L I A N S
Every good hero, so they say, needs a good villian, and blimey Science Fiction has been blessed with so many of them down the years in TV and film

Darth Vader from 'Star Wars' is one of the earliest villians I can remember from my childhood, but these day's I tend to see him more as a victim rather then as a villian due to the sad and tragic history of Anakin Skywalker who off course became Darth Vader.

For me, the ultimate of all villians has got to be Davros, creator of the Daleks and dark lord of their home planet Skaro, first introduced in the classic 1975 Doctor Who adventure 'Genesis of the Daleks'. The guy is a raving lunatic, his rants are both memorable and even quotable, and his Daleks simply would not have existed to plague the Doctor's many lifes in his various incarnations in Doctor Who had it not been for Davros, creating his Daleks at the end of a thousand year war, and while he maybe crippled and confined to a Dalek-like chair, his still just as dangerous given the chance.

Worst villian however ? . . . . probably Rita Repulsa from 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers', for she could never defeat them, and thanks to them, she always ended up with a splitting headache !

T H E    L A D I E S
Don't worry ladies, this isn't gonna be about female characters in sexy revealing outfits and massive Breast's like Lara Croft . . honest

There are plenty of lovely ladie's in Science Fiction. The kind I've always much apprciated since childhood, and perhaps taught me a lot about respecting girls and women growing up, are the strong, independant and resourceful types.

My earliest memory of female Science Fiction characters showing true independance must be Ellen Ripley from Ridley Scott's 'Alien' played by the talented Sigorney Weaver. Facing that first ever Xenomorph scared the living hell out of her, but clearly her experiances against that first bloody alien really did toughen her up by the time of the sequel 'Aliens' came around where she faced far more then one Xenomorph the second time around, especially the mother of all Xenomorph's, the Alien Queen !! . . I still love her classic line to that particular Xenomorph of "get away from her you BITCH !"

Sarah Connor from 'The Terminator' films is another great character. Like the aforementioned Ripley, she went through one heal of an ordeal, going up against the Terminator sent back in time to kill her just to prevent her son John Connor from becoming the future leader of the human resistance against machines controlled by Skynet.

I've always been a big fan of 'Star Trek' and it's various female characters, but I guess out of the lot worth mentioning, I'd have to go for Captain Cathrine Janeway, who thanks to the power of black coffee, managed to get her starship, the U.S.S. Voyager, and her crew back home to Earth against incredible odds when stranded on the opposite side of the galaxy in the Delta Quadrant . . thou in fairness, she only got the crew and Voyager home thanks to an older version of herself from the future, but if anything, Janeway proved I think once and for all that even an experianced woman can be a bloody good Starfleet captain, even better then the men of the other 'Star Trek' TV series since James T. Kirk

S P E C I A L    E F F E C T S
All great Science Fiction has great specal effects . . and it's nice that these day's special effects have moved beyond old fashioned effects like using smoke to create some kind of strange fog in space or sparks from a firework to launch a ship into space !.

Perhaps one of the most impressive special effects to this very day comes from the film 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day', which considering it's from the early 1990's, it's special effects, or 'visual effects' if you prefer, involving the deadly T-1000 are still pretty up to stratch all these years later, especially when the T-1000 blends into the chequred black and white floor of the mental hospital Sarah Connor was in, or the forms of the various victims the T-1000 shifts into from one form to another it melts to death at the end of the film.

I've always believed the character Odo from 'Star Trek - Deep Space Nine' would never have existed with his shape shifting abilities if it was not for the T-1000 being such an impressive creation.

M O D E L S
TV and film Science Fiction has seen plenty of impressive model effects work down the years. I've always been extremely impressed by model spaceship's that have come and gone down the years too.

Nowadays off course, a lot of spaceship's and the like tend to be C.G.I. creations, but sometimes a little bit of good old fashioned model effects still get used from time to time.

George Lucas's first ever 'Star Wars' made use of a lot of model ship's, from the first one you ever see being Princess Leia's Rebel Blockade Runner called the Tantive IV, followed by Darth Vader's persuing Star Destroyer, and then off course the fantastic Millennium Falcon, the massive Death Star, and the various X and Y-Wings during the epic battle of Yavin.

I recommend checking out this website called 'Model Miniatures' which features model work on series like Doctor Who and 'Red Dwarf', and films like 'Alien VS Predator' and the god awful 'Thunderbirds' films.

Oh, and just so ya know, you'll notice a photograph of a naked woman lying on her front on a bed used for the section of the site called 'Naked Models', but don't worry, it's NOT naked women I assure you, just a dirty joke by whoever owns the website with a filthy mind www.modelminiatures.co.uk/

M U S I C
Want to make your Sci-Fi epic ? . . . . simple, get someone who know's how to create bloody good musical scores !!.

John Williams is a classic example, just listen to 'The Imperial March' [a.k.a. the Darth Vader theme] from 'Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back'.

The Doctor Who theme, while perhaps the most famous Science Fiction theme of all time that's undergone many changes, was written by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire from the BBC's world famous Radiophonic Workshop. Many fan's have claimed that the Doctor Who theme, back in the day's of the classic series, used to scare the hell out them them.

Personally, I've never found any version of the Doctor Who theme to be scary. I always felt the theme to the 1990's remake of 'The Outer Limits' was far more frightening, just listen ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7vPb…

Thank you very much for viewing this upload. I hope you enjoyed it . . . . if not -

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Science Fiction, or 'Sci-Fi' as it's generally known for short, is an absolutely bloody wonderful genre.

I've loved being a Science Fiction fan for as long as I can remember. Getting into the genre as a young child in the early 1990's, I can remember first watching Doctor Who on VHS Video's, and watching classic 1960's Gerry Anderson series 'Stingray', 'Thunderbirds' and 'Captain Scarlet' on BBC1 or BBC2, either of the two channels, as well as repeats of 'Star Trek - The Original Series' on those same channels and brand new episodes of 'Star Trek - The Next Generation' when that series was still in production. I can also recall being scared shitless by 'The X-Files', and even more scared of 'The Outer Limits', which apparently I didn't know until many years later was actually a remake of an older version of the same series from decades before.

My first taste of Science Fiction films was on VHS Video's too, with the likes of the original 'Star Wars' films, and the likes of 'Alien', 'Aliens' [never saw the other two until many years later my dad never had the 3rd and 4th 'Alien' films on VHS Video until he got the DVD's years later], 'Predator', 'Terminator' and 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day'.

There are so many things about Science Fiction one can love, so instead of going through a long bloody list of so much that I love about the genre, here's a kind of top 10 thing's I simply love about Science Fiction.

ENJOY !

A L I E N S
One of the great things I love about Science Fiction is the fact that all life in the universe doesn't have to look like the classic grey, or sometimes green, big headed, big eyes, small body look aliens that often get seen in TV series like 'The X-Files' or documentaries about UFO abduction's and the like. After all, if aliens looked like those from the aforementioned 'X-Files', I think we'd all find Science Fiction to be a pretty dull and pathetic genre.

There is truly something I find rather unnerving about the idea that there are alien's in Science Fiction who look completely like us, and the scary thing is not knowing that they are aliens, or people taken over by aliens in some form [just look at the John Carpenter classic 'The Thing' and you get what I mean about unnerving]. Sometimes off course human look aliens don't look entirely human, because they might have pointy ears like Mr.Spock and his fellow Vulcan's from 'Star Trek' or spots that look like a sort of leopard print on the skin that go from the top of your head right down to your feet like with Jadzia Dax and later on Ezri Dax in the spin-off 'Star Trek - Deep Space Nine'.

And then off course there are those aliens who look absolutely nothing like a human or a typical 'X-Files' like alien visitor. The kind I tend to like of nasty aliens tend to be the likes of the Xenomorphs from the various 'Alien' films, the aforementioned 'Thing' from John Carpenter, or even the Predator's from the 'Predator' films.

Course, it should be remembered that not all aliens are out right bloody evil, there are plenty of good hearted ones who mean us no harm and just want to live peacefully among us, just look at Tom Baker's 4th Doctor in Doctor Who, happily offering Jelly Babies to humans, fellow Time Lords and nasty alien villains like Dalek creator Davros . . he looks human and yet he isn't, but at least you know the Doctor is an alien you can trust . . even if you really don't know his true name which I guess for some people can be quite worrying, especially when as children we are told "never accept sweets from strangers !" . . ha, never stops the Doctor when he offers you a Jelly Baby thou does it !!

S P A C E S H I P S
Spaceships are very important when it comes to making great Science Fiction. It's great that now in this day and age of the 21st century, we seem to have finally moved on from Sci-Fi's involving the old fashioned bloody classic flying saucer type ship's of the 1950's [well, unless your Daleks, they seem to have a fondness for saucer shaped Dalek craft in the new series of Doctor Who since 2005 !].

It's amazing the amount of different designs we've been blessed to have seen over the decades of spaceships, and it's nice that they don't all have to belong to aliens out to invade the universe, such as the Nostromo from 'Alien' to the Jupiter Mining Corporation mining ship 'Red Dwarf' from the Sci-Fi comedy of the same name.

There are many legendary ships in Science Fiction, with Starfleet's legendary starships that share the name 'Enterprise' from the 'Star Trek' universe, to Han Solo's fantastic flying piece of junk the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars', to International Rescues space rocket Thunderbird 3 from Gerry Anderson's 'Thunderbirds', and let's not forget the most legendary of all Science Fiction spaceships, and perhaps when seen from the outside the most bizzare one of the lot, the Time And Relative Dimensions In Space machine, the Tardis from Doctor Who, which is, no debate, hands down, truly the best ship in the universe . . and in all Science Fiction too !!

Another thing I love about spaceships is the various attack craft we've seen down the decades, commonly known by names such as 'Starfighters'. The Rebel Alliance with their B, X and Y-Wing's from the original 'Star Wars' Trilogy [and the more recently introduced V-Wing of 2005's 'Revenge of the Sith' or the even more recent U-Wing from 'Rogue One' back in 2016], to the Colonial Viper's of 'Battlestar Galactica', the alien attack ships from 'Independance Day', and even the Death Gliders of the Gou'uld from 'Stargate SG-1'. Starfighters have always been really impressive to me over the years in many Sci-Fi's. I think the worst sadly must be the UFO Interceptors from Gerry Andersons 'UFO', all they do is fire one missile and if it misses then that's that, no other weapons to use !.

I highly recommend checking out this monster of an upload from Deviant Art user Dirk Loechel called 'Size comparison - Science Fiction spaceships' which is a massive upload which is still being updated regularly, featuring ships from various TV series, films, etc . . sadly lacks the Tardis from Doctor Who but that's perfectly understandable since she'd be a tiny dot compared to the rest of them when it comes to her Police Box exterior www.deviantart.com/art/Size-Co…

T I M E    T R A V E L
Time travel is quite an interesting subject with Science Fiction. Almost every Sci-Fi I've ever known has involved the concept in some shape or form. The most annoying thing about the subject of time travel is the headache inducing problem of paradoxes, and boy there are all sorts of those, such as the film 'Groundhog Day' which is a film I personally can't stand because of the very reason of reliving the same day over and over and over again driving you up the wall . . thou I will make an exception for the classic 'Stargate SG-1' episode which is also called 'Groundhog Day' in which the characters Jack O'Neill and Teal'c relieve the same day over and over, but it get's a lot funnier later on as seen in this clip with the antics the two do and get away with www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkNI_t…

One of my all time favourite examples of time travel is the 1975 Doctor Who adventure 'Pyramids of Mars' where the 4th Doctor shows his companion Sarah Jane Smith what Earth would look like as a ravaged and destroyed planet in 1980 if the stories villian Sutekh the Destroyer was not stopped, something which the Doctor referred too as 'alternative time'.

'The Terminator' films are another great example of time travel making for interesting Science Fiction [probably best avoid 'Terminator Genysis', that one totally destroyed everything from the previous 4 Terminator films].

The one time travel based franchise I have personally always had a real dislike is the 'Back to the Future' films, because no matter how many times I've watched them, they just get even more and more complicated that I lose what on earth is going on that I would need diagrams and pointy arrows to help explain all the confusing plot points and elements that go into those films, cos I do tend to have an excellant grasp of time travel [honest ] but for some reason 'Back to the Future' films give me a headache when I see two Marty McFly's in 1955 during a dance of his mum and dad and I'm trying to work out how both Marty's are there at the same time or which Marty arrived at their parent's dance first !!.

Please don't try explaining it to me, you'll probably just end up confusing me even further !! I don't understand this shit !

W E A P O N R Y
Weapons these days in Science Fiction do tend to be pretty bloody amazing. It's great that the old fashioned 'Ray Guns' are thankfully now a thing of the past and we've been blessed with so much epic weaponry in the genre of Science Fiction that it's no longer all "pow pow, gotcha sucker !" like it used to be.

Lightsabers from 'Star Wars' to this day are still a popular classic Sci-Fi weapon and have been every fan's dream for them to be made real for the last 41 years [yes, I too would love a real working Lightsaber . . just don't make me angry thou, otherwise it may cost you an arm or a leg, and you'll probably end up saying "tis a fleshwound !" like the stupid black knight from the 'Monty Python' film 'The Holy Grail'].

One of my favourite hand held weapons is the Zat'nik'tel, or 'Zat gun' for short from 'Stargate SG-1', a Gou'uld weapon where if you shot someone with it, it knocks them out and causes the victim great pain. Shoot them with it twice and it kills the victim, and finally shoot them a third time with it, they disappear into nothing . . my dad's wanted one for Christmas for years, ha ha !!

H E R O E S
Science Fiction has so many heroes of all sorts. Some are ordinary human being's who may make use of alien technology, such as the team SG-1 from 'Stargate SG-1' or Captain Jack Harness and his Torchwood operatives from 'Torchwood', and then offcourse their are heroes with super powers like Superman to the more recent heroes of the Marvel cinematic universe such as 'The Avengers' films.

For so many of us without a shadow of a doubt, the ultimate hero is the Time Lord known as the Doctor from Doctor Who, and while he may lack super powers, his always got his trusty old Sonic Screwdriver which is always been updated with new settings [crap against wood thou, or for that matter anything with a deadlock seal], and then off course he uses his most important 'weapon' to win his battles which is his mind and all the knowledge his gathered through the centuries of travelling through space and time in his Tardis, and off course one of the most amazing thing's about the Doctor is his ability to stay away from death by undergoing an occational regeneration, changing the appearance, voice, personality and attiude of the Doctor . . and as seen more recently, his gender [ grrrrrr].

V I L L I A N S
Every good hero, so they say, needs a good villian, and blimey Science Fiction has been blessed with so many of them down the years in TV and film

Darth Vader from 'Star Wars' is one of the earliest villians I can remember from my childhood, but these day's I tend to see him more as a victim rather then as a villian due to the sad and tragic history of Anakin Skywalker who off course became Darth Vader.

For me, the ultimate of all villians has got to be Davros, creator of the Daleks and dark lord of their home planet Skaro, first introduced in the classic 1975 Doctor Who adventure 'Genesis of the Daleks'. The guy is a raving lunatic, his rants are both memorable and even quotable, and his Daleks simply would not have existed to plague the Doctor's many lifes in his various incarnations in Doctor Who had it not been for Davros, creating his Daleks at the end of a thousand year war, and while he maybe crippled and confined to a Dalek-like chair, his still just as dangerous given the chance.

Worst villian however ? . . . . probably Rita Repulsa from 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers', for she could never defeat them, and thanks to them, she always ended up with a splitting headache !

T H E    L A D I E S
Don't worry ladies, this isn't gonna be about female characters in sexy revealing outfits and massive Breast's like Lara Croft . . honest

There are plenty of lovely ladie's in Science Fiction. The kind I've always much apprciated since childhood, and perhaps taught me a lot about respecting girls and women growing up, are the strong, independant and resourceful types.

My earliest memory of female Science Fiction characters showing true independance must be Ellen Ripley from Ridley Scott's 'Alien' played by the talented Sigorney Weaver. Facing that first ever Xenomorph scared the living hell out of her, but clearly her experiances against that first bloody alien really did toughen her up by the time of the sequel 'Aliens' came around where she faced far more then one Xenomorph the second time around, especially the mother of all Xenomorph's, the Alien Queen !! . . I still love her classic line to that particular Xenomorph of "get away from her you BITCH !"

Sarah Connor from 'The Terminator' films is another great character. Like the aforementioned Ripley, she went through one heal of an ordeal, going up against the Terminator sent back in time to kill her just to prevent her son John Connor from becoming the future leader of the human resistance against machines controlled by Skynet.

I've always been a big fan of 'Star Trek' and it's various female characters, but I guess out of the lot worth mentioning, I'd have to go for Captain Cathrine Janeway, who thanks to the power of black coffee, managed to get her starship, the U.S.S. Voyager, and her crew back home to Earth against incredible odds when stranded on the opposite side of the galaxy in the Delta Quadrant . . thou in fairness, she only got the crew and Voyager home thanks to an older version of herself from the future, but if anything, Janeway proved I think once and for all that even an experianced woman can be a bloody good Starfleet captain, even better then the men of the other 'Star Trek' TV series since James T. Kirk

S P E C I A L    E F F E C T S
All great Science Fiction has great specal effects . . and it's nice that these day's special effects have moved beyond old fashioned effects like using smoke to create some kind of strange fog in space or sparks from a firework to launch a ship into space !.

Perhaps one of the most impressive special effects to this very day comes from the film 'Terminator 2 - Judgement Day', which considering it's from the early 1990's, it's special effects, or 'visual effects' if you prefer, involving the deadly T-1000 are still pretty up to stratch all these years later, especially when the T-1000 blends into the chequred black and white floor of the mental hospital Sarah Connor was in, or the forms of the various victims the T-1000 shifts into from one form to another it melts to death at the end of the film.

I've always believed the character Odo from 'Star Trek - Deep Space Nine' would never have existed with his shape shifting abilities if it was not for the T-1000 being such an impressive creation.

M O D E L S
TV and film Science Fiction has seen plenty of impressive model effects work down the years. I've always been extremely impressed by model spaceship's that have come and gone down the years too.

Nowadays off course, a lot of spaceship's and the like tend to be C.G.I. creations, but sometimes a little bit of good old fashioned model effects still get used from time to time.

George Lucas's first ever 'Star Wars' made use of a lot of model ship's, from the first one you ever see being Princess Leia's Rebel Blockade Runner called the Tantive IV, followed by Darth Vader's persuing Star Destroyer, and then off course the fantastic Millennium Falcon, the massive Death Star, and the various X and Y-Wings during the epic battle of Yavin.

I recommend checking out this website called 'Model Miniatures' which features model work on series like Doctor Who and 'Red Dwarf', and films like 'Alien VS Predator' and the god awful 'Thunderbirds' films.

Oh, and just so ya know, you'll notice a photograph of a naked woman lying on her front on a bed used for the section of the site called 'Naked Models', but don't worry, it's NOT naked women I assure you, just a dirty joke by whoever owns the website with a filthy mind www.modelminiatures.co.uk/

M U S I C
Want to make your Sci-Fi epic ? . . . . simple, get someone who know's how to create bloody good musical scores !!.

John Williams is a classic example, just listen to 'The Imperial March' [a.k.a. the Darth Vader theme] from 'Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back'.

The Doctor Who theme, while perhaps the most famous Science Fiction theme of all time that's undergone many changes, was written by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire from the BBC's world famous Radiophonic Workshop. Many fan's have claimed that the Doctor Who theme, back in the day's of the classic series, used to scare the hell out them them.

Personally, I've never found any version of the Doctor Who theme to be scary. I always felt the theme to the 1990's remake of 'The Outer Limits' was far more frightening, just listen ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7vPb…

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