Favorit Scy-fi Scene

[LadyTevar]

"Silent Running": The hero running through the soon-to-be destroyed bioship, and remembering all the things he (and earth) had lost.

[NecronLord]

"Stop! No further! I deny you, I give you up!"

The end of Forbidden Planet.

[ChosenOne54]

And, of course, nuWho's 'Bad Wolf'. 'No.' 'EXPLAIN YOURSELF!' 'I said No.' 'What IS THE MEANING OF THIS NEGATIVE?' 'It means no.' 'BUT SHE WILL BE DESTROYED!' 'No. Cause this is what I'm going to do. I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of a Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then, just to finish you off, I'm gonna wash every stinking Dalek out of the sky!'
'BUT YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS, NO DEFENSES, NO PLAN!' 'Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death. Rose?-I'm coming to get you.'

I agree wholeheartedly, their discovery was one of the biggest 'oh shit!' moments I've seen in a television program.

Other moments include the scene where Neo vanquishes Smith in the first Matrix, the ending scene of Waters of Mars, and the destruction of the Death Star in IV.

[Deathstalker]

Most things have been mentioned, but the Deathstalker thinks that Optimus Prime's arrival in the cartoon Transformers movie is one of the best scenes in sci-fi. He steps of the ship, see Autobot city in ruins and dead Autobots about and proceeds to kick Decepticon ass BY RUNNING THEM OVER and then transforms and starts gunning them down. Prime had to die, because he couldn't top that performance!

[Temujin]

The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 – Klaatu gives the climactic statement of his mission.

[Ahriman238]

So many to choose...

Another Firefly one, 'Shindig.' Mal has won a swordfight (by fighting dirty) and stands over his vanquised foe. And he speaks.

"You know, mercy is the mark of a great man."
stabs him, nonfatally
"So, I'm just a good man."
stabs him again
"Eh, I'm alright."

[Dass.Kapital]

While I enjoy being reminded of some very great moments I also find (Found?) this one poignant.

Link

*Bows*

[cmac]

The Fifth Element - Negotation

Anyone else want to negotate

http://youtu.be/3oKwg6W05MU

[Jadeite]

He did that to subtly tell the viewer about the truth of the world: the space program is bullshit. Man hadn't landed on the moon yet, and he never will. Just like this scene was obviously faked (remember, saying the effects people had to work in the limits of the real world breaks SoD even if we ignored the director's flawlessness), the so-called moon landings to come shortly later would also be faked.

Kubrick probably knew this for a fact, since NASA would probably go to him to help make the visuals believable.

So, like always, nerds bitch but they miss the real story.

Oh christ, are you actually one of those nutters?

[StarSword]

For comedy, one of my favorites is in both the book and movie versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Mr. Prosser: "Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
Arthur Dent: "How much?"
Mr. Prosser: "None at all."

[Stofsk]

Half that post was for lols and the other half was serious. Some parts pulled double duty. I'll leave figuring out which is which as an exercise for the reader.

Oh fuck it, I guess not.

SLJ sucked in ROTJ. For srs. His delivery in that arresting scene was fucking dreadful.

Yeah I was not really impressed with him in any of the films to be honest.

The "Best of Both Worlds" scene with Picard's "warp 9, course..." is, in all seriousness, among my favorite sci fi scenes. I'm not completely sure why, but I can watch that over and over again and love it every time. Before I wrote that post though, I never really thought about how he still thought things through, but that paragraph is fairly serious too.

I much prefer Picard's line in the closing scene of act 2 when he says 'Mister Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson: "We have engaged the Borg".'

Everything about the scene was perfect, from the tension to the music to Stewart's quiet resolve in his delivery.

Also since I was reminded of it in a previous thread, the dialogue he has with the Borg collective is very memorable for me (apparently less so for other people who watched the episode lol).

Yesterday's Enterprise is ok and The Defector is badass.

The former has one of my favourite Picard moments ever, when the ship is on fire and doomed and people are dead and you hear the klingons go 'lol prepare to be boarded' and picard scoffs THAT WILL BE THE DAY, does his little hop over to tactical and squeezes one last phaser blast out of the old girl

Also the Defector is pretty good too, but another episode I really love is 'Who Watches the Watchers' where Picard gets mistaken for a god by a primitive proto-vulcan race and first of all, he considers this a bad thing for the culture (because religion is a bad thing) but secondly when he is down on the surface and trying to convince them he's not a god there comes a moment when the grieving father of a young girl (was it a girl? can't remember) who died recently asks Picard to bring her back to him. When he says he can't do that the guy doesn't believe him and aims to shoot him with a bow reasoning that as a god the arrow would not be able to hit him, and Picard realises that he cannot convince him otherwise so lets himself get shot.

It would take balls to let that happen to you, for no other reason than to convince someone you'll never meet again from a planet you'll never visit again that you're not his saviour.

[spooky spice]

I'm 13 y/o I've just gone to the cinema with a friend (first time without a parent), the only seats left were front row in the middle. The opening crawl on Star Wars (before it became Episode IV A New Hope) starts to roll up the screen, then a big spaceship appears, we had to crane our necks to follow it's progress, and we were WOWing, then an even bigger ship appears...

nothing has ever come close to eclipsing that.

on TV... I'd just bought a 42" TV set, plugged it in and adjusted the settings, what's on TV only Stargate Atlantis episode Rising, just at the bit where Atlantis starts to rise from the bed of the ocean - a holy crap! moment.

[Swindle1984]

Londo is Babylon 5.

Londo and G'kar made that show. One of my favorite G'kar scenes was when Vir tried to apologize to him for the war. G'kar turns on him, pulls his dagger, and slits his own palm, squeezing it into a fist and letting the blood drip down.

Drip. "Dead." Drip. "Dead." Drip. "Dead." Drip. "Dead." Drip. "Dead." Drip. "Dead. How do you apologize to them?"

"I can't."

"Then there can be no forgiveness."





Also, the scene with Londo and G'kar trapped in the elevator is hilarious.

[Swindle1984]

Found the scenes in question.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NsdQzoI ... re=related[/youtube]






Vir telling Mr. Morden what he wants, and subsequently getting it later is just plain awesome. Especially considering that every single person who told Morden what they wanted got it... and Vir was the only one who was happy with it.

[Stofsk]

Yeah it's difficult to talk about Londo without mentioning G'kar. I think G'kar is also one of B5's greatest characters, he went from a blowhard villain in the first season to someone who realised his own views and hatreds just weren't sustainable, and thus became the better man. I loved how in 'Coming of Shadows' we finally see Londo's dream, which he had alluded to in the first episode the show, and you get the feeling these two will be bitter enemies for the rest of their lives. The rest of season two and season three sort of cemented that, until we saw 'War Without End'.

Londo's arc though epitomises the core strength of B5's writing. As JMS has often said, if the show could be said to be 'about' anything, it would be about choices and consequences. Londo's decisions ultimately bear the most destructive consequences one could imagine, and his arc from some guy in a joke of an assignment to becoming Emperor, highlights this. 'At the start, I had no power and all the choices in the world; now, I have all the power but none of the choices.'

Even him backstabbing the Shadow vessels on Seleni and subsequent execution of Morden has unwelcome consequences. It was a goofy episode, but in 'The Geometry of Shadows' Elric gives Londo his 'blessing' when he says all that stuff about a 'great hand reaching out of the stars'. 'And I hear voices, a billion voices all calling out your name.'

'My followers?'

'Your victims.'

At that point Londo should have taken stock of his decisions thus far and realigned himself, but it would have been a totally different show.

[Stofsk]

Here's a great scene from 'The Long Twilight Struggle' which was always one of my favourites. I love how even Kosh turns and watches him walk out.

[Stravo]

The Long Twilight Struggle is one of my favorite episodes from the entire B5 series. Just that long run from the moment the Narn fleet jumps into Gorash 7 until the scene listed above when G'kar gives his speech is uninterupted awesomeness.

[Night_stalker]

Honestly, this scene just rocked my mind.

We've got the Imperial march blasting, and we see some Star Destroyers. Nothing too special, just some usual villain ships.



Then we see one get blocked out by a shadow, and the camera cuts to show a MASSIVE ship, that puts the Star Destroyer at the beginning of ANH to shame.

[Ryag Han]

Babylon 5 is just one huge masterpiece. i love every single episode, every character, even the bad ones. they have actual motives, their not in it just For the Evulz. the plot is incredibly well done, and every episode has a very well made link to the others, instead of just being alone and with no meaning for the story at large. its just good storytelling.

but Lando and G'kar... boy, as i said before, those two made the show for me.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

i tell you, 5 seasons of that series wasn't enough first time i saw it. i went and saw it again, right away!

Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. Ivanova says WATCH MORE BABYLON 5!

[Ahriman238]

Also the Defector is pretty good too, but another episode I really love is 'Who Watches the Watchers' where Picard gets mistaken for a god by a primitive proto-vulcan race and first of all, he considers this a bad thing for the culture (because religion is a bad thing) but secondly when he is down on the surface and trying to convince them he's not a god there comes a moment when the grieving father of a young girl (was it a girl? can't remember) who died recently asks Picard to bring her back to him. When he says he can't do that the guy doesn't believe him and aims to shoot him with a bow reasoning that as a god the arrow would not be able to hit him, and Picard realises that he cannot convince him otherwise so lets himself get shot.

It would take balls to let that happen to you, for no other reason than to convince someone you'll never meet again from a planet you'll never visit again that you're not his saviour.

I really thought that was the best Prime Directive episode. While lip service is paid to the directive, the directive is discussed, the directive is ignored, I can really only remember two episodes that had immediate negative consequences for breaking the damn law, and the other was the one with Worf's brother where a single man, on learning of the exostence of alien life, suicides. This was far more powerful.

Whether you see religion as a good or bad thing, the revival of the Old Faith was clearly destroying the Vulcanoid community. I'm still amused that the researcher's suggestion that Picard impersonate God and deliver commandments is not only a valid idea, it's probably what Voyager PD-drones would do as damage control. Picard chooses to come clean with them entirely, something i'm damn sure is not in the regs.

[Traveller]

Babylon 5:Sleeping in Light

The decomissioning of Babylon 5 scene with its honor guard of ships from all the races that appeared in the series. And Ivanovas dialogue.

"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for each other, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."



Hard to keep a dry eye as Babyon 5 "Ends in fire".

[wautd]

Classic Star Wars scenes aside...

In neo Battlestar Galactica, when making contact with the Pegasus. The first sign of Hope after a whole season being chased, hunted and murdered by angry killer robots. I felt really happy for the crew, so I guess that's why I find it such a powerful scene.

[spooky spice]

This thread is making my wish I'd seen B5...

[HMS Sophia]

The episode 33 in NBSG. I can't think of a particular scene, but that episode stands out as being very good (as well as being the first damn episode). They actually worked with sleep experts (or whatever you call them) to get their reactions to exhaustion right, rather than "Boy, I'm tired, but I've got to fight the cylons"
Also, the arrival of the pegasus (as in, I agree with the above).

[Crazedwraith]

This thread suffers from a horrible lack of Farscape scenes. Though trying to boil that show down to a single scene to encapsulate it is hard. Still three scenes pop to mind.

1) Cricton's arrival on Moya in 'Premiere.' He gets yelled at, choked, spat on and then knock-out tongued. Followed Cricton's words "What the hell is wrong with you?"

2) Rygel, D'Argo and even the priestess Zhann decided the best course of action is to chop off one of pilot's arms to pay for their maps home. I mean, Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, Firefly, Doctor Who, what other show would that ever happen in?

3) 'Revenging Angel' Harvey tries to get John to keep himself going with revenge;
John Crichton: I don't... wanna be like other people. I don't wanna be like you. I don't wanna stoop that low. Kirk wouldn't stoop that low.
Scorpius: That was a television show, John. And he made Priceline commercials. But if you insist, then look to Kirk the way he really was - savage when he had to be.
John Crichton: He's a fiction, Harv. I know the difference. I'm real, I have to live with what I do.

The transript does not do the scene justice. It's a mix of funny references and down right seriousness blending near seamlessly.