Top 10 moments in scifi history

[TrailerParkJawa]

When the Zerg overun Kerrigan and there is nothing you can do.

When 30 rebel ships embark on a suicide mission to destroy the Death Star.

When the big ship in Close Encounters breaks the glass with a loud musical note.

[HemlockGrey]

A few from Starcraft

When Arcturas gives his victory speech.

When Kerrigan awakens for the first time.

When Zeratul discovers that Duran is a servant of the Xel'Naga.

When Kerrigan gives her victory soliquiquy.

[SpacedTeddyBear]

When Babylon5 blew up.

When the Deathstar blew up. ( The first one)

[Moonshadow]

"When Babylon5 blew up."

didn't they self destruct it?

[Stormbringer]

"When Babylon5 blew up."

didn't they self destruct it?

Not quite, they demolished it but not scuttled it.

[The Dark]

The Death Blossom from The Last Starfighter.

The time freeze scene in Wing Commander (the rest of the movie blew chunks, but that was one cool scene).

Luke training with Yoda (humor factor).

The battle between the SDF-1 with Breetai's fleet against Dolza's fleet in Robotech.

The duel between Isamu Dyson and Guld Boa Bowman in Macross Plus.

[RedImperator]

In no particular order...

1. When the Martians open fire on the army in War of the Worlds
2. The first Death Squadron scene in TESB, when we hear the Imperial March for the first time and an enormous shadow passes over a Star Destroyer and you're thinking, "What the Fuck?", and then they cut to show the Executor for the first time.
3. The first glimpse of the wreckage at Wolf 359.
4. Sarah Connor's Judgement Day nightmare in T:2.
5. The fleet approaches in TOS: The Ultimate Computer. FOUR Connies. FOUR I SAY!
6. DS2 blows away the Liberty.
7. Shadow of the city-destroyer sliding up the side of the WTC in ID4 (it's creepier now than it was when I first saw it).
8. The E-nil goes down, ST3.
9. the E-D goes down, Generations. Admit it: she was ugly and designed like shit, but after 7 years, she grew on you.
10. Enterprise-C emerges from the temporal rift, and suddenly the E-D's bridge changes--and Tasha Yar is standing at tactical.
11. "No, Luke--I[/] am your father."
12. Palpatine watching the Acclimators take off from his reviewing stand on Coruscant, Imperial March playing.
13. Anakin confesses to slaughtering the Tusken raiders, and as we watch his face, you can hear the Imperial March faintly in the background.
14. Tea Leoni's character and her father stand on a beach in Virginia as the ocean recedes and the mile-high tital wave approaches in Deep Impact.
15. We see the Statue of Liberty lying on the beach in Planet of the Apes.
16. Bruce Willis realizes he's dead, The Sixth Sense.
17. Bruce Willis emerges from the sewer into a wintery, abandoned Philadelphia in 12 Monkeys (maybe creepier for me because could be on the exact spot on Market Street where he was standing in about 20 minutes).
18. In Jurassic Park, when the camera pans up in the middle of the storm and you see the T-Rex standing with his forearm on the dead electirc fence, looking down at the cars.

[Sam Or I]

For me (in no order) most of these have been said before, but just to say them again

1 Finding the statue of liberty on Planet of the Apes

2 When Baltar discovers the is a Second Battlestar

3 When Lt Col McQueen goes it alone against Chiggy Von Richtofen

4. When Luke finds out Vader is his father

5. When the Enterprise is destroyed

6. When spock dies

7. Aeris's Death

8. When you discover Talia Winters is a tratior

9. The Scene "in the beginning" (B5) when the single corvette flys straight into the entire fleet of Minbari

10. When Han Saves lukes ass in A New Hope

11. When Lt Col Iron Horse (From war of the world the series) caps himself.

12. When Vasquez opens fire with the smart gun after being told to hand over the Ammo

[Sam Or I]

And for those of you that remember:

Finding out Endrium fuel was in fact the Ancients.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Here's an Oldie but goodie:

Soylent Green is people

[weemadando]

Oh yes... "Soylent green is people"

[The Yosemite Bear]

Yup good old soylent green

[Patrick Degan]

4. Captain Scarlet saves Los Angeles at the end of 'Place of Angels'

Most of you probably never heard of Captain Scarlet. It was a scifi series in the late 60s using puppets.

Oh yes, I know Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons. Wonderful show; featuring the best puppets Gerry Anderson ever fielded on TV. Some of the ideas would be resurrected for UFO but it was a good show.

Late 21st century, and Earth accidentally winds up in a war with the Mysterons, a non-corporeal species from the planet Mars. Hostilities arise after a disasterous first contact on the Moon when an Earth expedition misinterprets a gesture of communciation as an attack and blasts a Mysteron base. The Mysterons employ a strategy of terror and psychological warfare to weaken and demoralise humanity before the day they finally launch their doomsday strike. Their chief weapon is the power of Retrometabolism —by which they can not only psychokinetically repair damage to their faciities and equipment but reanimate the dead, who they use as their agents in the campaign of terror.

They control Capt. Black of the Spectrum Defense Organisation and for a time also controlled Capt. Scarlet after he was killed in a Mysteron attack. But because the reanimation was carried out at a distance and imperfectly, Scarlett was freed from Mysteron control after his second death —and retaining the power of Retrometabolism. This makes Scarlet immortal and thus Earth's most valuable agent in the fight against the Mysterons. The aliens, however, are not only ruthless but subtle: they announce in advance the target for their strike while in actuality planning to hit a different but related target. And in the series, the Mysterons succeed half the time. They proved a canny and dangerous enemy.

[Patrick Degan]

• The last minute of Mad Max, when Max has chained Johnny the Boy to the wrecked pickup truck, sets up his crude time bomb, and leaves him a hacksaw to cut off his own foot —then drives away as the gasoline explodes. The last scene is of Max, now a total burnout case, just driving on the open road. He can never go back to his life as a cop after having lost everything and sacrificed all he was in his pursuit of revenge (BTW, they've finally released the original Australian print of the movie; no longer do we hear Mel Gibson speaking in a dubbed American accent). I often think that when the MFP lost Max to the wilderness, that was the finish of law and order in that burg.
• The opening two minutes of The Road Warrior. I actually saw this movie on the big screen first, in 1981, at my neighbourhood rep cinema and was my first viewing of the Mad Max universe. The Gyro Captain's opening narration was evocative, but nothing compared to that wonderful tracking shot as the camera zooms down on the road, with the stripes rushing past until the frame blacks out and then pulls back —now with full-screen opened out— from the airscoop of Max's engine and the music hits; danger music highlighting the threat pursuing Max. Now, THAT'S the way to open an action movie!
• The ending moment of John Carpenter's The Thing.
• Space: 1999 —and I hear you snickering out there! Yes, the premise of the show was utterly goofy, and the second season really leaves something to be desired, but it did have its moments, and the Alphans were a more believable crew than that of the USS Voyager. In the only two-part episode, season two's "The Bringers Of Wonder", Cmdr. Koenig has managed to prevent the radioactive seaweed creatures from succeeding in their plot to use illusion to manipulate the Alphans into blowing up their nuclear waste dumps in order to feed on the radiation (don't ask). In the last moment, the head lump of seaweed fixed its eye on Koenig and taunts him in his dying moments: "You are truly a primitive being, Commander. In an instant of time, we could have given you a life as rich and full as your fondest dreams. Now, your lives will be what they've always been —nasty, brutish, and short" to which Koenig defiantly replies "It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream".
• UFO, another great show from Gerry Anderson —in the pilot episode, when Col. Straker (Ed Bishop) is making the case for the establishment of SHADO, he caps his argument by turning to the French UN representative and asks him if he has a daughter. When he answers yes, Straker, cold as liquid ice, tells him "I hope you never have to look upon her mutiliated body. I hope your village is never the target of the next u-fo attack." Ah, class act is our Colonel (later Cmdr.) Straker. The brave but insane Cmdr. Straker.

[Typhonis 1]

john Sheridan saying "see you in hell" before nuking the Blackstar

The vorlon fleet with planet killer when Marcus first foubnd them and remebering Kosh staing "we are few"

The Vorlons kicking Shadow Ass before Kosh was killed

[The Yosemite Bear]

When Lensman created the first Sci Fi story with a continuity something Berman and Bragga have been trying to Undo ever sicne.

[Tsyroc]

Superman throwing General Zod through that Coca~Cola™ in Superman II.

[DocHorror]

When Kirk uses the Enterprise's computer to order Relient to lower her shields...

When Paul Atreides uses the family Atomics to blow open the shield wall...

When Spock beams Kirk & McCoy off Arura Pentei just before the Warden told them who was behind the conspiracy...