Hiya,

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Nick.

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Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

It's not NEW ... but Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate Universe. All of which can be watched on PlutoTV for free, as they have their own channel.

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Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

It's not NEW ... but Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate
Universe.

Yeah, watched all seasons multiple times.. LOVE THEM.. Well SGU is meh...
but the rest are great, wish there was a re-boot!!!

Nick

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but the rest are great, wish there was a re-boot!!!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No.

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On 02 Apr 2024, Exodus said the following...

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

It's not NEW ... but Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate Universe.

+1 for the Stargate. We just finished going through Universe not long ago and are going through Atlantis again now.

We're also going through Fringe again. I forgot how much I like the character Walter Bishop (played by John Noble) playing the eccentric scientist.

Not exactly scifi, but if you're into super heroes, check out X-Men 1997 on Disney+. There are already three episodes out and another will be released today.


Jay

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On 2024-04-03 10:07 Nick Mackechnie said...

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

How new? ;-)

- The Expanse
- Altered Carbon
- Foundation (2021)
- The Peripheral


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On 2024-04-03 10:07 Nick Mackechnie said...

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

How new? ;-)

- The Expanse
- Altered Carbon
- Foundation (2021)
- The Peripheral

Thanks muchly, I'll check out The Expanse and The Peripheral.

Nick

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Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

- The Expanse

+1



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My wife and I enjoyed Season 1 of Silo (on Apple TV) -- enough to read the
book series together. It's downright grim at times, but offers enough to
root for and provokes some thoughts...

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My wife and I enjoyed Season 1 of Silo (on Apple TV) -- enough to read the book series together. It's downright grim at times, but offers enough to root for and provokes some thoughts...

I hadn't heard of Silo, it looks interesting thanks for mentioning it. From search results it looks there's a season 2 to look forward to also - great news.


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My wife and I enjoyed Season 1 of Silo (on Apple TV) -- enough to read
the book series together. It's downright grim at times, but offers
enough to root for and provokes some thoughts...

wow, I've read all the books in the past and really liked it a lot.
Might be cool to see how they filmed it.

Anyway, books are books -- Your imagination shapes the look/feel of the silos.

The Silo saga is really cool reading. Caught me so much -- I had it as audio books and listened to it while driving to work, before sleep, whenever there was a spare time.

Would love to find some similar saga.

Rotorek

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My wife and I enjoyed Season 1 of Silo (on Apple TV) -- enough to read
the book series together. It's downright grim at times, but offers
enough to root for and provokes some thoughts...

I'm still waiting for season 2 to air. The last episode of season 1 was a cliffhanger.

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Hello Nick.Mackechnie!

** On Wednesday 03.04.24 - 05:07, Nick.Mackechnie wrote to All:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Severence.

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Hello Ogg!

11 Jan 26 12:03, you wrote to Nick.Mackechnie:

Hello Nick.Mackechnie!

** On Wednesday 03.04.24 - 05:07, Nick.Mackechnie wrote to All:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

TheCivvie


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Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

+1 from me too. Must watch season two soon.

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

Gruj

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Hello Gruj!

11 Jan 26 20:14, you wrote to me:

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

+1 from me too. Must watch season two soon.

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

Could never get into Babylon 5

TheCivvie


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Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

+1 for Babylon 5. A like the Star trek, "Buck Rogers in 25th Century" and "Cosmos 1999" TV series.


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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to TheCivvie on Sun Jan 11 2026 20:14:39

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gods69 to Gruj on Mon Jan 12 2026 08:50:22

"Cosmos 1999" TV series.

Space: 1999.
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Ogg to Nick.Mackechnie on Sun Jan 11 2026 12:03:00

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

A couple recents I liked are Fallout and The Silo.
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Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

Gruj

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A couple recents I liked are Fallout and The Silo.

+1 on Fallout. Must watch season 2 soon. The Silo is actually on my list of series to watch next. :)

Gruj

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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to Mortar M. on Mon Jan 12 2026 08:13 pm

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow.. I wonder if people generally felt that way when it came out, because there's only one season. But we're also curious to watch the reboot series from 2003/2004 - I've heard that was fairly popular.

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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to Mortar M. on Mon Jan 12 2026 20:13:33

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

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"Cosmos 1999" TV series.

Space: 1999.

I saw that and wondered if maybe it wasn't called something else in other
parts of the world.
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Space: 1999.

I saw that and wondered if maybe it wasn't called something else in other parts of the world.

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999". First season is good but the second is an disaster...

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Gods69 wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999". First season is good but
the second is an disaster...

There's a facebook group that denies the second season ever existed. It
wasn't the same without Victor Bergman pondering their situation,
saying things like...

"The intrinsic unknowability of the Human Experience..."

"We have learned many things, but most of all that we still have much to learn."

Story was, they were given money for the second season by partnering
with an Italian studio, which is why so many extras and secondary
characters have accents. They leaned way too hard on Maya as well.

There was some speculation about Space:1999 happening in the same
universe as the Anderson's previous show, UFO. I would have liked to see
more tie-ins.

Wow, I guess I'm a little too into it.



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Hello Ogg!

11 Jan 26 18:04, TheCivvie wrote to you:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Fringe.

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

s2r


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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gods69 to MIKE POWELL on Wed Jan 14 2026 08:20:36

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999".

Huh, didn't know that.

First season is good but the second is an disaster...

Yea, pretty much. I never saw the point of the Maya character.

What I liked best about the show were the sets and ships. The interiors of MA were gorgeous (I wish my house looked that way) and the Eagles actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?
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Severence is wonderful
Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible
Pluribus is fun
Dark, German with subs is another incredible piece of work

Regards,

Dundarach

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Hello Dundarach!

14 Jan 26 19:57, you wrote to me:

Severence is wonderful
Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible

Haven't seen it.

Pluribus is fun

I started watching it a few days ago. Yes very interesting, I always like they chose Albuquerque. :)

Dark, German with subs is another incredible piece of work

I liked it, many plot twists.


s2r


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... and the Eagles
actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?

I never noticed that too.
At least the are some air smoke when the ship take off... ;-)

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Mortar M. wrote to Gods69 <=-

What I liked best about the show were the sets and ships. The
interiors of MA were gorgeous (I wish my house looked that way) and the Eagles actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?

The Eagle was a great design. Loved how they modified it into the Hawk,
the swift and others. The guys who designed ships for that show were on
a breakneck schedule, this was long before multi-month hiatuses.

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass. I want a computer that can
run my entire house and only provide output in an echoey woman's voice,
a projection screen or thermal receipt printers.

The show UFO, the precursor and possible prequel to Space:1999 had a
multi-national moonbase with 70s furniture, female workers in
miniskirts with purple wigs, launch chute slides for pilots to get
into interceptor spaceships, and a kitchen with slot ovens marked

AMERICAN MEALS
ITALIAN MEALS
BRITISH MEALS
FRENCH MEALS
RUSSIAN MEALS

Very 70s, very cool. I think it was supposed to take place in 1990?



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Dundarach wrote to s2r <=-

Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible

There's a great documentary called "The Institute", about the real game
that unfolded in San Francisco in the 2010s. Being San Francisco, a
haven for all sort of people, seeing flyers on the streets about mind
control and dolphin telepathy wouldn't exactly stand out back then...

It was on Vimeo, think it might be on YouTube as well.

Found it - it's on Pluto TV for free.




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Re: Scifi
By: s2r to Dundarach on Wed Jan 14 2026 18:49:16

Pluribus is fun

I started watching it a few days ago. Yes very interesting, I always like they chose Albuquerque. :)

If it's good enough for Wierd Al...
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15:44

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass.

Here's someone who actually did it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97852768@N07/page9
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Mortar M. wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Re: Re: Scifi
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15:44

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass.

Here's someone who actually did it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97852768@N07/page9

I'd want to be able to open doors with a comlock. :)




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