Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:39 pm Erikboy, I totally agree, today with all the CGI stuff they could easily create other beings that look other then human or a blob. They did a little of this in B5 but not much. Today they could do so much better and have not yet.

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:18 pm Farscape was the only Sci-Fi that created and used a non-humanoid alien or two as characters on a routine basis. That's because Jim Henson and the Muppet crew made some spectacular puppets.

You might also look for THE DARK CRYSTAL - which was a fantasy with Muppet creations that look very alien for having real people inside.

erikboy (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:14 am Babylon 5... I am a great fan of sci-fi. But with age I have become more and more critical towards the series as my still very limited knowledge about universe around us grows. After a long time I watched Battlestar Galactica original series again. That seemed ridiculously simplistic. Awful. But at the time I saw Galactica first time, I was a big WOW!.

Many good sci-fi series since Original Startrek have been created. But I feel they get more and more similar despite all the unimaginably good special effects that have become available.

What irritates me most is 95% of races look like humanoids. More or less. Races behave like they have human psychology. Despite there have been good examples of different motivation system and psychology, like the Borg. Still, at the end very human like Borg Queen emerges.

I would like to meet species very different from ours in appeareance and behaviour. Not in Real Life of course

Then all the physics that should be valid in space simly isn't there! I could hear bangs and futuristic weapons fireing in absolute vacuum!

If there is anything going on in space it happens like there is a ground down below and horizon somewhere on the horizon. Also gravity seems to work on everything.

When engines are stopped then the whole ship slows down to standstill. How could that happen? There is no friction in space and there is no reference related to what ship could stop movement. there is no standstill objects in the Universe!

Gravity on the ships... Except B5 that creates gravity by turning, other ships use gravitygenerators which never fail even when the ship has been dead for centuries.

When ship explodes into pieces, these pieces will fly in different directions non stop. Instead I have seen many great battlefields with ship parts floating freely in close formation. Thats simply not possible in space.

When speed is accelerated close to lightspeed, then related to what object?

Also you can imagine forces that apply in such accelerations. At 3-4G which humans could withstand longer periods, it takes 3 full minutes to accelerate to mere 7kps, not few seconds. To accelerate to 250 000kps it takes full 3 months at 3G and undescribable amount of energy. How many Saturn V rocets? 50 000 for a small ship. If that acceleration happens in few seconds, then even thoughest metals would vaporize. If there are energy fields that could keep ships structure intact, the energy, put into that field is equal to energy put into acceleration plus energy that compensates acceleration with antigravity, so that humans inside the ship would not feel a thing. A tiny small glitch at such energies could mean total evaporization of the whole ship not a mere bump.

A lot of simple problems like that, makes using of wormholes the only acceptable way to cover distances measured in lightyears.

there are many similar aspects.

Allright, I think watching too realistic movies could be extremely boring and uneventful

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:06 pm I always assumed that if Kosh left his encounter suit, he'd look like River.