Growing Up Science Fiction

I watched Star Trek in Syndication but I did watch most of the movies in the theatre and when Star Trek spun off other shows, it became Star Trek: The Original Series.

Star Trek Next Generation off and on, Deep Space Nine off and on and I really liked Voyager

ST:TOS

ST:NG

ST:DS9

ST:V

then the movies rebooted.

Star Wars I saw in the theatre, did Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi – in between there was the infamous tv special and 2 Ewok movies – I have not watched the three prequels. But I did buy Star Wars novels.

Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 were the sci fi on TV – well okay Dr Who.

Then there was the V miniseries and a second miniseries and then a series. I bought the V novels, comics and Visitor doll.

Alien Nation, X-Files, Red Dwarf, Babylon 5, a Battlestar Galactica reboot that spawned a prequel series Caprica, direct to dvd movies  in between series and webisodes.

Lexx and Farscape made science fiction sexier….

but before all those tv shows and movies, which barely count as science fiction, mostly Space Opera, Space Cowboys and Space Action

there were book series, books, short stories, anthologies – words that described worlds and hard science and examined our world and potential and mostly… mostly found us lacking

our ability to create without wisdom

science becomes horror

rules for robots, rules for deploying technologies without displacing human labour

innovation potential, the individual vs group

the ancient civs invented much they didn’t use

not because they couldn’t see the need or benefit

they couldn’t figure out what to do with all the people

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Issac Asimov, Robert Heinlein Oh My!

Media Fans outnumber the Lit Fans

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