Favorite Sci-fi Moments

[Tribble]

The Thing (1982) : "You gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me..."

Which is made even more epic when you realise that Palmer was a Thing by that point and basically sold the head out to maintain cover. "You bastard!"

[Iroscato]

The Thing (1982) : "You gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me..."

Which is made even more epic when you realise that Palmer was a Thing by that point and basically sold the head out to maintain cover. "You bastard!"

...Whoa, you just blew my frigging mind. I'd never noticed that until now!

[Darth Nostril]

For me it was when the dog stalks into a room and you see a silhouette look up. Later the dog turns out to be a Thing, gets destroyed, then you realise that whoever it was is now a Thing ..... but you have no idea who it was.

[Borgholio]

The Thing (1982) : "You gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me..."

The Thing (1951) - When they spread out and discover that they have a flying saucer in the ice. And in the 1982 version, nice homage to the original when they show video of the Norwegians doing the same thing.

[Darth Quorthon]

From The Last Starfighter:

"We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull, what do we do?"
Bzzzt.
"We die"

[Eternal_Freedom]

From Galaxy Quest:

"How pathetic, the actors are going to play war with me!"

[Iroscato]

From Galaxy Quest:

"How pathetic, the actors are going to play war with me!"

Ah, Galaxy Quest...when the piss-take of Star Trek was better than anything the real franchise was putting out at the time...that's when you need to worry.

[Borgholio]

"It's a ROCK, it doesn't have any weak spots!!!"

"Look around you. Do you see anything you can use to construct a rudimentary lathe?"

[Iroscato]

Also, this:

"Okey-dokey"

[Sinewmire]

Gods, Galaxy quest! That film was sheer joy, start to finish.

I'm not sure of my favourite bit... maybe of the shuttle hatch: "Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there AIR?! You don't know!"

I just love Sam Rockwell in this. I think he's utterly terrified by everything because he's actually thinking about their situation - the actors don't seem to have a great deal of imagination.

[TOSDOC]

“We’ve got to get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!” He has good reason to be thinking about it, given everyone is convinced he'll get waxed before it's over.

[Darth Nostril]

"Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in."

[Eternal_Freedom]

From Warhammer 40K, when I managed to use that utter bastard Creed to sneak a Baneblade super-heavy tank right behind a large Ork horde. My opponent was less than pleased.

[Bedlam]

Well to bring in 40K then Alaric's frankly awesome speech from Grey Knight gives me goosebumps

"We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial -carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won."

And in Gaunt's Ghosts : Sabbat Matyr

Nineteenth [Platoon] lasted seventeen minutes from the time the gates closed. They accounted for one-hundred and eighty nine enemy casualties. No one witnessed their heroism.

[Death Zebra]

SW:KotoR:

"I am invincible!".
Telling someone his missing son "is a kinrath chew toy.".
Saying "Kill them all!" when you're meant to be mediating for peace.
Attempting to lie to the Jedi Council even though Bastilla is there to correct you.

Stargate

The Oddysey destroying an Ori ship in "Unending.".
Apophis: "May your reign last days, and your death last years."

[TheFeniX]

We just finished up B5 season 4 and it went from an annoying scene to a great one.

The new president is deciding what to do with John Sheridan. Sheridan, the one real hero of the Earth/Minbari war. The man who took down "Scorched Earth" Clark and restored some semblance of sanity to the Earth Alliance. The man who was about to sacrifice himself and his crew on a suicide run to blow up a weapons platform that would have wiped out the NA East-coast.

Let's talk shit to him, threaten that if he doesn't retire, you'll court-martial him and also allude that he'll be executed. The man who is there only because his honor demands he stand trial for his crimes. The man who is in charge of the fleet he put together that crushed all of Earth's defenses. The fleet that is sitting in orbit around Earth, right now. I get what she was trying to do, but why do B5 antagonists have to be such dicks about everything? It really irks me on a show that has such diverse and complicated characters.

However, Sheridan takes his retirement and the non-aligned aliens sideswipe the press conference and announce they are forming a new league based on mutual trust and technology sharing. And that the recently crushed Earth Alliance is welcome to join.

President: "Who do I negotiate entrance into this Alliance with? You?"
Delenn: "No, our president."
Cut scene to recently retired John Sheridan with his legs propped up on a table.

HA!

[andrewgpaul]

Playing Halo for the first time, and in a quiet moment, looking at the horizon curve up into the distance, and up, and up ... and over and down again. I'd read about it, of course, in Ringworld and Consider Phlebas, but that game was one of the first times I remember seeing it.

[Highlord Laan]

From Warhammer 40K, when I managed to use that utter bastard Creed to sneak a Baneblade super-heavy tank right behind a large Ork horde. My opponent was less than pleased.

*Table Flip*
"Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"

[Eternal_Freedom]

From Warhammer 40K, when I managed to use that utter bastard Creed to sneak a Baneblade super-heavy tank right behind a large Ork horde. My opponent was less than pleased.

*Table Flip*
"Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"

That is precisely the noise the Ork player made. It was rather satisfying to see an internet meme in reality.

[Venator]

From the lore side of 40k, one moment that always stands out for me comes from Brothers of the Snake:
Spoiler

Brother Priad pulling a Batman entrance on freaking Dark Eldar. I know a lot of people howl at the idea of a Space Marine being that fast, but it always made sense to me considering how powerful - and scarce - they're supposed to be.

[Eleventh Century Remnant]

Well, that's Movie Marines for you.
(Seriously- there was a semi- joke army list released, or maybe allowed to escape, that included rules for fluff accurate marines. you got one squad of ten for 1500pt. They were that good.)

I have very few television and film moments- although I will say yes, Wall-E, except most of it-

and for another one from print, Ch 37 of the book of 2001; a Space Odyssey.

Now the long wait was ending. On yet another world, intelligence had been born and was escaping from its' planetary cradle. An ancient experiment was about to reach its climax.
those who had begun that experiment, so long ago, had not been men- or even remotely human. But they were flesh and blood, and when they looked out across the deeps of space they had felt awe, and wonder, and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power they set forth for the stars.
In their explorations they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped.
And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
...
Now they were lords of the Galaxy, and beyond the reach of Time. They could rove at will amongst the stars, and sink like a subtle mist into the very interstices of space. But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin in the warm slime of a vanished sea.
And they still watched over the experiments their ancestors had started, so long ago.

[montypython]

We just finished up B5 season 4 and it went from an annoying scene to a great one.

The new president is deciding what to do with John Sheridan. Sheridan, the one real hero of the Earth/Minbari war. The man who took down "Scorched Earth" Clark and restored some semblance of sanity to the Earth Alliance. The man who was about to sacrifice himself and his crew on a suicide run to blow up a weapons platform that would have wiped out the NA East-coast.

Let's talk shit to him, threaten that if he doesn't retire, you'll court-martial him and also allude that he'll be executed. The man who is there only because his honor demands he stand trial for his crimes. The man who is in charge of the fleet he put together that crushed all of Earth's defenses. The fleet that is sitting in orbit around Earth, right now. I get what she was trying to do, but why do B5 antagonists have to be such dicks about everything? It really irks me on a show that has such diverse and complicated characters.

However, Sheridan takes his retirement and the non-aligned aliens sideswipe the press conference and announce they are forming a new league based on mutual trust and technology sharing. And that the recently crushed Earth Alliance is welcome to join.

President: "Who do I negotiate entrance into this Alliance with? You?"
Delenn: "No, our president."
Cut scene to recently retired John Sheridan with his legs propped up on a table.

HA!

I've always found that Straczynski's writing for the human antagonists like Clark tend towards the ham-fisted approach, whereas the Londo-G'kar dynamic got all the best nuances to it.

[Jedi Commisar]

From the Wing Commader (Yes... and... so...) Whatshisname tricking the Kilrati Battleship into the unstable Jumpgate or the Confed fleet as it blasts the either Kilrati fleet as it goes through the gate

To Boldly Flee: Mekakara handing Zod his ass, Comcrone-1 showing up to save USS Exit Startagy, The Blue Photo Shell and the Nostalgia Critic punshing The Plot Hole

[Batman]

Wow. And here I thought 'DarthPooky' needed to work on his english.

[Jedi Commisar]

Wow. And here I thought 'DarthPooky' needed to work on his english.

I have dyprixa I am also not going to run all quick posts through a word prossesser before posting it