SPACE OPERA 100 Favourites (OK so it went to 204) but hey is it Crowdfundable?
1. Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap) "Oh boy."
2. Buckaroo Banzai. All of it.
3. Opening Credits to Barbarella.
4. Victor Steiner-Davion taking over at Precentor-Martial of ComStar.
5. Death of Roy Fokker in RoboTech.
6. Death of Roy Batty in Bladerunner.
7. Death of Roy Wojciehowicz (a military sub-contractor working on the 2nd death
star).
8. Darth Vader: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you.
[pauses]
Darth Vader: Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to
discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined
strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Luke: I'll never join you!
Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what
happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him!
Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!
Darth Vader: Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!
Luke: [anguished] No! No!
9. Woody: How can Darth Vader be Luke Skywalker's father? They don't even have the
same last name.
10 Aliens- When then Aliens are attacking the med lab and it shows the countdown of
ammo on the Autocannons with only 3 or for rounds left.
11 Ghostbusters- "When somebody as if your a God say Yes.
12 Theme Song of Firefly.
13. {Alien} Underwear clad Sigorney Weaver climbing into a Space suit with a Plan to
flush an alien out of the shuttle.
14. {The Day the Earth Stood Still/remake} The Technician screaming to be let out
after replacing the drill bit in the test chamber in which GORT is housed.
15-Ringworld-Larry Niven-reproduction rights lottery leads to genetic selection for
luck.
16 - River *activates* and kills all the Reevers.
17 - Ender discovers it was never just a game.
18. (Aliens) - Queen Alien is ripping up the floor trying to get at Newt. Then,
behind the Queen, a bay door opens revealing Ripley in the bipedal forklift. CUT TO
CLOSE UP OF Ripley:
"Get away from her, you b$*#*!"
19 - (citation should really be unnecessary...) - The engines make pathetic winding-
down sound, then quit altogether.
"It's not my fault..."
20 - (Enemy Mine) - It's been years since I've seen this movie, so forgive me if the
details are slightly fuzzy. Davidge falls into a sandy pit and stuggles to crawl out.
Behind him a long tentacle with horrible teeth rises out of the pit behind him,
revealing the pit to be a giant ant lion. The tentacle grabs Davidge's leg and begins
to pull him in. Just when it appears that Davidge it about to become a meal, the Drak
appears from out of nowhere and saves him.
21 (Soldier) - Colonel Mekum gets dragged up to Todd, the soldier that he said was
obsolete and thought dead and who just wiped out all of the new soldiers single
handedly. "Please." the Colonel begs as he wets himself. The Colonel and his
flunkiess get tossed out to be blown up by their own device.
22 (ST3:WoK) - "Kahn, I'm laughing at the superior intellect."
23 (Galaxy Quest) - "Oh that's not riiiight"
24 (Galaxy Quest) - "And what you fail to realize is my ship is dragging mines."
Win. Love that movie.
25. While watching Wolverine, there was a scene that made me think, "I see you
managed to get your shirt off again."
26: Tensions between two secret alien races living among us preparing for invasion of
Earth take a turn for the weird when a super-evolved psychic unborn human baby
reveals that it has been manipulating events from within its mother's womb in Robert
Silverberg's "The Silent Invaders."
27: The Last Starfighter
Alex Rogan: [discussing battle strategy] Wait a minute. We knock out the turret to
get the fighters. But to get to the turret, we gotta get THROUGH the fighters. We're
dead.
Grig: [reassuringly] I'll have it all figured out by the time we reach the Frontier.
[alarm sounds and Grig's face falls]
Alex Rogan: What's that?
Grig: The Frontier.
28) Starship Troopers: Mandatory military service for the right to vote.
29) (The Black Hole) Hans Rhinehart and the robot, Maximillian, merge inside the
blackhole and spend eternity together as one entity, in Hell.
30) Evil nemesis revealed related.
31) By your command (Battlestar Galactica 1978)
32) Terminator: "I'll be back"
33) Data paints a picture.
34. Five musical notes on top of Devil's Tower, with one deafening bass note in
reply.
35. When Will Smith's dog gets infected saving his life in "I am Legend" - an "Old
Yeller" moment for a new generation
36. Princess Leia's bronze bikini. Nuff said.
37. (Ghostbusters) "Print's dead." -Egon
38. Bean destroys vials purportedly containing embryos of his own children, then
shooting Achilles in the eye with a rubber bullet.
39. Si Wang-Mu discovering that the godspoken of Path are being controlled by the
government with a form of OCD
40. Peter, Jane and Wang-Mu teleporting with the armed M.D. device directly into the
invading fleet's hanger.
41. one somewhat obscure story I read long ago that I really really liked (though I
don't know whether it would count as one of the 100 best moments) was Starquake by
Robert L. Forward.
42. How about "best sound effect EVAR" in SciFi for the "seismic charges" Jango Fett
fires at Obi-Wan during the asteroid chase in Attack of the Clones
43. Most chillingly simple moment: "You forgot your space helmet, Dave" from 2001.
44. Or just "My God, it's full of stars... " Still gives you the chills 40 years
later.
45. From Jack Vance's The Dirdir: Earth astronaut Adam Reith has been stirring up all
kinds of trouble on the planet Tschai, run by alien races, where humans are kept as
slaves and their knowledge of Earth brutally suppressed. When he's captured, one of
the aliens remarks, "What sort of odd human are you, who refuses to serve us?" and
another replies, "He calls himself an Earthman." Reith is interrogated:
Alien: "Are there other of you 'Earthmen' on Tschai?"
Reith (Holds head up): "ALL men are Earthmen!""
46. {Neuromancer, William Gibson} The term 'Cyberspace' is coined, and the concept of
'black ice' invented."
47. "Minds aren't read. See, you've still got the paradigms
print gave you, and you're barely print-literate. I can access your
memory, but that's not the same as your mind."
And the opening line:
48. " The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
49. (xfiles/daytheearthstoodstill/sliders/...) Alien shows up at the genius's house
and rewrites the world shattering calculations on the blackboard.
50. (Last Starfighter) Trusted Lieutenant: "What do we do?" Commander: "We Die."
51. (Spaced Invaders) ...blah blah..."Donut of Distruction!" Death Droid begins
burrowing a very deep hole to hide in.
52. (spaced Invaders) Captain Bito is crossing the highway and is hood ornamented by
a truck.
53. (The Fifth Element) The Blue Diva singing Opera
54. In A Mote in God's Eye, when one of humanity's most powerful warships is overcome
by alien "watchmakers" infesting its works.
55. Then in Footfall, Humanity's Orion Ship rises on a pillar of nuclear fire,
challenging an alien race conquering Earth. Forced to make an EVA to repair battle
damage, a heroic pipefitter appreciates the stars as the radiation kills him.
56. A tribute to the Army Corps of Engineers in Gust Front when the Posleen turn back
in fear from the heraldry of the after running the Engineers' gauntlet of booby-
traps.
57. Then, in Hell's Faire, "Bun Bun", almost the most badass tank ever, leads
humanity's counterattack against the Posleen.
58. Of course, that brings the Bolos to mind. I especially liked a touching scene in
David Weber's collection Bolos! in which a Bolo suicidally charges into battle to
save her colony, reciting poetry in memory of her fallen commander.
59. Vernor Vinge gave one of the coolest adventures ever, with A Fire Upon the Deep,
where an advanced AI "virus" hijacks every system it encounters, including the
cybernetically-enhanced minds of humanity...
60. Print: The novel Dune (The whole thing)
61. Film: Theme song from Green Slime
62. TV: The opening credits to UFO (yes the highly sexist focusing on the lady's
backside credits!)
63. {The Jetsons} George telecommuted to work via wireless internet! <-- you saw it
here first folks.
64. {Consider Phlebas, Ian M. Banks} Yay... the whole thing.
65. "James Bolivar DeGritz, I arrest you on the charge-" Right as he drops the safe
on the bot's head.
"It is three fifths of a second from when Joachim drew his pistol."
66. "I give you, the Cappellan Confederation!"
67. Psychohistory from Foundation Series.
68. Humaniform robots from the Robot Series and the three laws of robotics.
69. Kzinti from the Ringworld and Kzin-Human Wars series.
70. Solar system composed entirely of anti-matter seen in the Crashlander collection.
71. Uplifting and dolphins piloting space ships from the Uplift Series.
72. Lt Uhura - Mirror Mirror
73. slackers!
74. {Galaxyquest} "What happened to my limo??" And, then the gates open and Jason
Nesmith sees a planetary system spread out before him.
75. {same movie} "Miner not a minor."
76. “It’s a trap!” – Admiral Ackbar
77. “Then I’ll see you in Hell.” – Han Solo
78. The scene in The Empire Strikes Back when Vader is talking on holo to the
captains of the three Star Destroyers, when one of the hologram images suddenly
cowers and then blinks out as his ship is destroyed. Vader ignores it.
79. The moment in Niven and Pournelle’s The Legacy of Herot, where the colonists
realise that the Salmon are actually baby Grendels…
80. The moment in Niven and Pournelle’s Footfall, where Harry first gets a look a the
alien invaders … and they are baby elephants, wearing platform shoes, flying in paper
planes … and wielding large shotguns in their trunks …
81. Masque World: "Sir Henry Oliphaunt kept his Trog suit. He never wore it and he
never spoke of it to Lady Oliphaunt, but he kept the suit and sometimes late at night
he would take it from its secret place and look at it. And there were other nights
when he would suddenly rise from his chair and dance around the room."
82."I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
All those moments will be lost in time
Like tears in rain
Time to die"
83. Also, the snowstorm parable from Ch. 2 of Masque World, by Alexei Panshin. "In
these days when any man can comfortably dance naked in a snow storm..."
84. As part of his final test to become a Nexus Starship Officer, cadet Asodo Hatch
must defeat a far superior strategist and commander in an Illusion Tank battle. Both
men are in command of Mega Command Cruisers, starships with enough fire power to take
out whole planets, with crews of hundreds.
Knowing he cannot defeat his opponent in a conventional starship battle, Asodo cloaks
the ship, orders his entire crew to go EVA, abandoning ship, floating silently
through space undetected by the other Cruiser and undertake a boarding action. The
assault partially depressurises the other ship, and Asado and his men fight through
the corridors, slaughtering the unprepared opposing crew with the ceremonial swords
that form part of their uniform and taking command of the enemy Cruiser. Asodo
himself beheads the opposing commander. (From The Worshippers and the Way, Hugh
Cook).
85. Pohl's "The Day the Icicle Works Closed," where planetary colonists "loan" their
bodies to off-world day-trippers (kinda like virtual reality visors, only not
virtual) while their minds power robots who do menial labor....or so they think!
86. {Mathenauts-‘Convergent Series’, Rudy Rucker} Protagonist paints the pentagram on
the time-frozen demon’s belly. When time starts again, the demon re-enters our
dimension only to find the pentagram has moved – it is on his belly. Each time the
demon tries to re-enter it gets smaller and smaller in the limit.
87. In Serenity, when Serenity flies through the cloud towards the Alliance Fleet …
followed by the Reaver Fleet. “Somebody shoot something!” The subsequent space battle
and Wash’s flying “I am a leaf on the wind.”
88. (Blake's 7: Cygnus Alpha) Vila: "The Architectual Style is early Maniac." Arko:
"We need food and shelter." Vila: "I know! But do we need them that badly."
89. (Blake's 7: City on the edge of Forever)
Baban: "Baban."
Vila: Still doesnt recognise him.
Baban: "Baban the Beserker."
Vila: still no clue...
Baban: "Baban the Butcher."
Vila: "Oh no. You're Baban the Butcher."
Baban: Smiles that he has been suitably recognised by the man now cowering in fear in
front of him.
90. (Blake's 7: Blake) Avon shoots Blake
91. Crusade by David Weber and Steve White: A misinformed and misled alien culture
tries to bring down the holy inquisition on Terra. Contains lots of awesome ideas. Of
course, the best moment is when the reader realizes that the holy inquisition is
carried out by aliens.
92. Antares Series from Michael McCollum: Imagine mankind encounters an hostile
xenophobic alien race. One of the best moments is when even the hardcore 'we-can-
all-live-in-peace-if-we-just-try' realize that this is the ultimate them-or-us
conflict.
93. From Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven: As the giant meteor plunges into the
Pacific a surfer dude decides to spend his last minutes riding the biggest wave in
history. He manages to get up and ride the thousand ft. tsunami halfway over Los
Angeles before he's smacked into the side of a skyscraper.
94: Gil 'The Arm' Hamilton.
95. "You are in Command now, Admiral Piett."
96. **** Seaton staring out of his shattered lab window as his analysis equipment
flies off in a perfectly straight line: E. E. "Doc" Smith, Skylark of Space.
97. The “negotiation” scene in The Fifth Element.
98. The Fuzzy's are declared Sapient.
99. The inhabitants of the moon slam a large rock into the earth, thus bringing about
a successful end to their revolution.
100. A river of dragons save F'Nor and Canth as they plummet towards the ground.
101. The Litany Against Fear
102. Sandworms!
103. the humanoid hunting cats perfect "tuna flavored ice cream."
104. Using Beer for Chemical Warfare in Ian Douglas Semper Mars: Book One of the
Heratige trilogy...The panicked French Troops surrendered bc the foam looked like
acid trying to eat through their suits since Co2 behaves quite differently in a Low
Pressure enviroment.
105. Give them the Air Cohaagen, give them the Air.... Total Recall....Kuato Lives!
106. End scene of Planet of the Apes...the original.... They finally did it!
107. Adama's quote in the new BSG...before it went all emo... Sometimes you have to
Roll the Hard Six
108. The Galactica jumps into New Caprica's atmosphere; launches it's attack vipers;
then jumps out again before smacking into the ground.
109. The fight between the two terminators in the service corridor of the mall in T2.
110. Space: Above and Beyond {The Angriest Angel}
The fighter duel between Col. McQueen & Chigie Von Richthausen.
111. "Soylent Green is people!"
"You'll have to take my Soylent Green from my cold, dead hands, you damned dirty
apes!"
112. Stargate Atlantis: McKay goes to a scientific symposium, and after the keynote
speaker activates a subspace bridge that sucks heat from our space-time, McKay
enlists the help of Bill Nye to collapse the bridge, and saves Dr. Keller from being
frozen to death.
113. Watchmen (graphic novel): Adrian's deadpanned response to Dan's query: "I'm not
a Republic serial villain. I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
114. {2001: A Space Odyssey} Hal-9000, an AI, commits murder.
115. {Wargames} "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a
nice game of chess?"
116. Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least.
Corwin of Amber - Nine Princes in Amber on hearing his Brother was alive.
117.If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the
possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. -
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
118. Don't Panic _Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
119. 42 - 'Nuff said! Life the universe and everything
120.Rose: You're so different.
The Doctor: New-New Doctor.
Dr Who - when he changes from the 9th to the 10th Doctor
121. Bad wolf !!!!!
122. Take the blue pill.
123: KHAN!!!!
124: Jelly Babies. mmm!
125. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins passes his Command School final exam.
126. Wilma Flintstone uses a washing machine powered by birds and a pulley system.
(This foreshadows all biotech engineering.)
127. (Starship Troopers, movie) "Only way you'll see action is to be knocked down to
private, Zim." ... "The brainbug has been captured by a private named Zim." (those
quotes aren't probably exactly correct)
128. Supreme Bashar Miles Teg, under mental torture, has his mind break open into
wide-spectrum prescient awareness, and proceeds to kill all his tormentors as if
they're in slow motion.
129. "Nice hat..."
130. 5th element, whole movie...
131 Silence in space...ala Firefly.
132 Pre-Earth aliens giving Earth culture, ala Stargate.
133 Tribles. plus Harcourt Fenton Mudd and his clone wives...
134 River going all assassin crazy, Firefly...pick a scene.
135. The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
136. Zed: May I ask you why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?
137 When Hell Tannen got his birth name in 'Damnation Ally' His mother dies the
father walks in says one word , Hell and walks out never to be seen again and thats
what the nurse puts down.
138 Hell Tanner's entire speech about why he doesn't shake hands (I'm left handed, I
loved it).
139. Sheridan "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!"
140. Drake: "Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
Delenn: "Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari
fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere
else."
141. Sebastian: "Remembered not as a messenger, remembered not as a reformer, not as
a prophet, not as a hero;not even as Sebastian. Remembered only;as Jack."
142. Londo Mollari: "But this;this, this, this is like; being nibbled to death
by;Pah! What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet;go
"quack"."
Vir Cotto: "Cats."
Londo: "Cats! I'm being nibbled to death by cats."
143. Jane: "I'll be in my Bunk"
144. "Zathras, not ZAthras. Totally different."
145. G'Kar(Blood dripping from his hand): Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead,
dead, dead, dead, dead! How do you apologize to them?
Vir [whimpering]: I can't!
G'Kar: Then I cannot forgive!
146. (Dr. Who) "Exterminate!"
147. "YOU WILL OBEY OR SHE WILL BE EXTERMINATED."
"No."
"EXPLAIN YOURSELF."
"I said, 'No.' "
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS NEGATIVE?"
"It means, 'No.' "
"BUT SHE WILL BE DESTROYED!"
"No! 'Cause this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save
Rose Tyler from the middle of the dalek fleet, and then I'm going to save the Earth,
and then - just to finish off - I'm going to wipe every last stinkin' dalek out of
the sky!"
"BUT YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS. NO DEFENSES. NO PLAN."
"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death..."
148. And the follow up to that:
[Jay explains that she was in the hood after dark carrying a textbook way above her
grade level...]
Zed: [just stares.]
Jay: ...Or do I owe her an apology?
149: "There be whales here!" -Scotty (ST IV
oyage Home)
150: Blowing up Z'ha'dum.
151. Vir looking up at Morden's head on a pike and doing that little smile and wave.
My absolute favorite pair of moments - with the payoff TWO SEASONS LATER - in the
whole run of the show.
"What would I like, Mr. Morden? I'd like to see your head, on a pike, as a symbol for
the next 10 generations that some favors come at too high a price. And I'd look up
into your lifeless eyes, and I'd wave... like this [waggles fingers]. Do you think
your 'associates' could arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
152. "There are five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"FOUR."
"You would destroy the Cybermen with four daleks?"
"WE WOULD DESTROY THE CYBERMEN WITH ONE DALEK."
Aw, but you left out the perfect ending to that exchange!
Dalek: YOU ARE SUPERIOR IN ONLY ONE RESPECT.
Cyberleader: What is that?
Dalek: YOU ARE BETTER AT DYING.
153: "Daleks be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen."
"THIS IS NOT WAR. THIS IS PEST CONTROL."
154:{neuromancer} Molly Millions.
155:{neuromancer} Molly Millions dressed in panther modern suit making mince meat out
of corperate guards on the first run in Neuromancer.
156:{neuromancer} The villa straylight
157:{neuromancer} The turing police and their discussion about true names with case.
158:{neuromancer} rightous zion dub and observations about molly being steppin'
razor.
159. Jules Gabriel Verne: "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (written in 1864) -
when the boy calculates the theoretical change in temperature as he descends, and
realizes all the scientists are wrong!
160. Blake's 7: Power
Gunn-Sar: I am Gunn-Sar. I rule by right of challenge.
Gunn-Sar: What’s the tally of challenges?
Cato: Twenty five dead and one missing, sir.
Gunn-Sar: Oh come on Cato don’t quibble. Marquin fell backward off the cliff.
Cato: Yes sir.
Gunn-Sar: So he’s dead. Like you can’t say someone’s missing as such. Not when
they’ve taken a dive into a bottomless gorge.
Cato: No Sir.
Gunn-Sar: So its twenty six dead.
Cato: The Council ruled it was twenty five Sir and one missing.
Gunn-Sar: Twenty five men lie dead who tried to stand against me, and one if he’s not
still falling is no more than a greasy spot on the rocks, right?
161. A Canticle For Liebowitz in the first section where a set of actual blueprints
are found in the rubble of an ancient destroyed building's bomb shelter and the monks
realize the blueprints from before the holocaust they had been so carefully
duplicating were actually the blueprint 'negatives'.
162. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations
are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my
foonting turlingdromes and hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I
will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't." (sorry
if your intestines are now exploding)
163. And to continue the B5 vein:
Garabaldi: Come to my quarters later and I'll show you my favorite thing in the
galaxy ... ok, my second favorite thing.
164. Having read the play from which every robot scifi (Rossum's Universal Robots)
has been ripped off, I like the Idea of a Megacorp producing Almost Human BioSlaves.
165.
Saavik: Permission to speak freely, sir?
Kirk: Granted.
Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities.
Kirk: And why not?
Saavik: Because... there was no way to win.
Kirk: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never
occurred to you?
Saavik: No, sir, it has not.
Kirk: And how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life,
wouldn't you say?
Saavik: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
Kirk: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
Later
Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
Kirk: What's on your mind, Lieutenant?
Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
Kirk: Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?
Saavik: On the test, sir... will you tell me what you did? I would really like to
know.
McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-
win scenario.
Saavik: How?
Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
Saavik: What?
David Marcus: He cheated.
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking.
I don't like to lose.
Saavik: Then you never faced that situation... faced death.
Kirk: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.
166. New Startrek Film: Captain Spock ejects the annoying Kirk in a life pod and
leaves him on an abandoned ice planet. Kirk Emerges from the Pod and screams: "You
Green Blooded Bastard!"
167. Mal Reynolds is left in the Desert Naked by Yolanda Saffron Bridgette Reynolds
and Screams: "You ****! You Dirty Dirty ****!" as she flies off in his shuttle.
168: Civilization collapses every 2049 years during the eclipse in Asimov's
"Nightfall".
169: The Total Perspective Vortex, from Adam's "The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe".
170: Psychohistory from Asimov's "Foundation".
171: Winston Smith learns to love Big Brother.
172: The tripods and the capping, "The White Mountains".
173: "The Long Walk" by Bachman/King.
174: Marvin and the mattress Zem
175 - The Last Question 'THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER' ,
And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light----
176 - Hyperion Cantos The Shrike, Kassad and Moneta, Sad King Billy, Rachel's 'Merlin
Sickness', Brawn and Johnny, Remembering Siri, Meina Gladstone vs the CORE, The Time
Tombs, Tree of Pain, The UI, Aenea, Raul Endymion, The Shrike (Again), Nemes, 'Choose
Again'
177 - Commonwealth Saga Landing on Mars only to be waved at by a frat boy (trust me,
it makes sense), Immortality for everyone, and all that it entails, Paula Myo, the
Ultimate Cop, the Dyson Aliens, Humanity going from no ships and little military
technology to sending a star nova in a few months and endless questions about just
what The Cat actually did..
178. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire Series: Trusted Officer reads to Grand Admiral
Thrawn that there's a rebellion crash-landed on one distant moon. Grand Admiral
instantly gets furious and orders the Star Destroyer that he's on locked down. He
then explains to the officer that they recently received a shipment from that moon
and the rebellion is there on the Star Destroyer. His shear attention to detail
allows him to see things that everyone else would miss.
179. (may have been said) Babylon 5, Final Episode: The destruction of Babylon 5 to
the ending of the closing credits. No matter how many times I see it, I still stand
to honor a friend. It still brings a tear to my eye. I sit for the last moment about
Delenn watching the sun coming up every day. But then I stand again for the final
credits. That series is still the greatest television show to date, IM(ns)HO.
180. "Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're
waiting for a better opportunity to win."
"Barrayar", 1991
181. "If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to
hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."
"The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
182. Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can
waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were
a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good
enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm
sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
A Civil Campaign, 1999
183. You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected
by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you
don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to
your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
A Civil Campaign, 1999
184. Lt. Doolittle space surfing down to the dying planet at the end of Dark Star
185. Dune; Paul Muad'Dib [to the assembled Fedaykin]: Long Live The Fighters!
186. The end of The Martian Chronicles -
They reached the canal. It was long and straight and cool
and wet and reflective in the night.
"I've always wanted to see a Martian," said Michael.
"Where are they, Dad? You promised."
"There they are," said Dad, and he shifted Michael on
his shoulder and pointed straight down.
The Martians were there. Timothy began to shiver.
The Martians were there--in the canal--reflected in the
water. Timothy and Michael and Robert and Mom and Dad.
The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long
silent time from the rippling water. . . .
187 The Matrix. After freaky bullet dodging (and some innovative camera work) an
agent has Neo down on the roof, and is just about to kill him. Trinity slips in
behind. Puts a gun to his head. Says, "dodge this."
188.
* A length of fine wire
* A bus token
* A ticket stub
* A green strip of cloth
* A code key
* Half a broken poker chip
* A parcel receipt
In lieu of credit in PKD's "Paycheck".
189 The supercomputer transforming the kid into a blob with no mouth (or chance to
end his torment) in Ellison's "I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream".
190 Revok exploding First Scanner's head with just his thoughts in "Scanners".
191 "Abracadabra" from Dreamscape.
192 and Im partial to Eddie short-circuiting out Blaine the Mono's brain with goofy-
ass riddles.
193 Bonus Spoiler: Donald Sutherland at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
194. Finally finding out who killed Joachim Steuben in 'A death in peacetime'
195. Donal Graeme: Fakes the carpet bombing of an entire planet Wals on Air and
Breaks the minds of mortal men all this and more in Dorsai!
196. "I'm Sorry Thorp, I'm a little busy right now. Some people on the other side of
the Planet have decided they no longer wish to live under my guidance." - Warlord
Shan, Osiris Chronicles
197. "Blue Monkeys!" - Evolution
198. Kaneda's Motorcycle - Akira
199. Princess Nausicaa's Ceramic Engine Glider - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
200. The scene where the proto-humans are given the knowledge of weapons/violence
from the obelisk. "2001 a space odyssey".
201. Lister pretends to be the God of the Cats and shows up with a Giant Doughnut and
Sausage. - Red Dwarf
202. Munchkin Song in RIMMER: THE EXPERIENCE - Red Dwarf
203. Cat Dances as the Party 'think they are escaping' Red Dwarf - Red Dwarf
204. Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of
petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew
exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the
nature of the universe than we do now.
SPACE OPERA 100 Favourites (OK so it went to 204) but hey is it Crowdfundable?
Could we instead fund crowd suicides?
Kickstarter and it's fans are starting to annoy me.
I'd love to be a Kickstarter Fan...unfortunatly I'm Australian and dont Qualify unless I'm in the US with a US bank account. If I had those I would be funding a City for Homeless People looking for a Hand up (as opposed to a hand out).
So long as they do it at home. Elvis Communications "on behalf of the mayor of London" would not approve otherwise.
Space Opera: The Opera.