Science Fiction

I love SF and Fantasy. Here are some of my favourites...

My top 10 favourite films:

• The Matrix
  Morpheus: "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
• Alien/Aliens
  Ripley: "Get away from her you bitch!"
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  Gimli: "NO! Not the beard!"
• Shrek
  Donkey: "Like I hate it when you've got somebody in your face, and you're trying to give them a hint but they won't leave, and then you have that big ackward silence you know..." [Big awkward silence]
• Star Trek: First Contact
  The Doctor: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop."
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  Hal: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
• Spaceballs
  Dark Helmet: "Before you die, there is something you should know about us, Lone Starr."
  Lone Starr: "What?"
  Dark Helmet: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate."
  Lone Starr: "What's that make us?"
  Dark Helmet: "Absolutely nothing."
• Donnie Darko
  Kitty Farmer: "[Tearfully to Rose Darko] Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  The Terminator: "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
• Barbarella
  Barbarella: "You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?"

My top 10 favourite series:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Locutus: "I am Locutus, of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service .. us."
• Stargate SG-1
  Jack: "If it wasn't for SG1, you would be sitting there with a snake in your head instead of your head up your ass !"
• Red Dwarf
  Lister: "I tell you one thing. I've been to a parallel universe, I've seen time running backwards, I've played pool with planets, and I've given birth to twins, but I never thought in my entire life I'd taste an edible Pot Noodle." "
• Battlestar Galactica (the new one!)
  [Starbuck's in the brig]
  Apollo: "What's the charge this time?"
  Starbuck: "Striking a superior asshole."
• Lexx (series 1 only... it had such promise)
  Stan: "May his merciful shadow fall upon... me preferably."
• Star Trek: Deep Space 9
  Odo: "I heard an interesting rumor today."
  Quark: "Only one? I started twelve!"
• Babylon 5
  Ivanova: "There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right."
• X-Files
  Scully: "So you've been seeing elves all your life?"
  Mulder: "No, in my case Little Green Men."
• Outer Limits
  "You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits"
• Futurama
  Leela: "Now strip naked and get on the probulator."

My top 10 favourite books:

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the whole trilogy in its 5 parts!) by Douglas Adams
• Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Earth by David Brin
• Star Wreck IV: Live Long and Profit by Leah Rewolinski