Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/29/12)

04/29/12 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/29/12)
Monday:
9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy

Friday:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox

[KevinDavis]

Better Eureka, looks like they are going to kill off more characters....

Scifi shows religion themes:

1. Battlestar Galactica (1978): Mormon influence... Glenn Larson is a Mormon..

2. Stargate SG1: At the end, I think it was a subtle warning about Radical Islam.

3. Star Trek (TOS): Pro Christian

4. Stargate Universe: Pro Christian

Anything else that I'm missing???

[KevinDavis]

[GeronL]

bump

[sthguard]

What would you say makes TOS and SGU pro-Christian?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Only two Fringe episodes left!

[TomGuy]

Fringe has been renewed for one final season of 13 episodes.

== also ==

SyFy Announces Six New Reality Series, + Scripted 'Defiance', 'Adjustment Bureau', 'Grave Sight', 'Eyes of the Dragon', 'Darkfall', & 'One Mile Straight Down' & More

[dangerdoc]

I remember one episode of STTOS that referenced Christ, other that that it espoused a pretty humanistic doctrine.

SGU, pro Christian? To me is was more existential.

[GeronL]

How does a Korean girl band make their bubble gum pop song better??

They just add ZOMBIES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3D_RQwQwRo4

lovey dovey dovey... uh uh uh uh....

[Krankor]

[skinkinthegrass]

Seven Voyages of Sinbad?

[Krankor]

Very good! Looks like I’m going to have to make next week’s a bit harder.

[skinkinthegrass]

Looks like I’m going to have to make next week’s a bit harder.no, not harder. :)...

[Vanders9]

TOS had its moments, no doubt forced on Roddenberry by the network, but the main tone is very humanist, in line with the opinions of its creator.

Star Trek TNG was very anti-christian, although in its later seasons curiously pro-spirituality. There's one episode, I think called "first contact", which could have been commissioned by the international Atheist convention. Tragically its also a very good episode.

[Tanniker Smith]

The one “pro-Christian” thing I recall about SGU was early in the run when they were going to crash into the star, thinking that they were about to die, some of the crew went to party to the end, the others had a prayer group. The prayer group was reciting a rosary —or at least the “Our Father” or “Hail, Mary”, I forget which — the point being that they were reciting actual Christian prayers, not some New Age BS.