What wins your vote for worst sci-fi creation ever? It can be a character, place, device, anything at all, as long as when you were watching a Sci-fi show or movie, you spooted it/them and thought " WTF?". I personally have to go for Darwin, the talking dolphin from shipwrecked mega bomb Seaquest:DSV. Eek Eek Eek Lucas Friend Darwin Swim Eek Eek shut the hell up.
Start Trek: Voyager. The sets and sfx were ok but as the series’ went on I had to cringe at the unbelievably crap plots and horrible repetitive patronizing fake-space-jargon.
Space: 1999. The main premise of the show is that the moon is blown out of earth orbit due to a huge explosion - that happens on the far side of the moon.
“I’m Space Cowboy from planet Earth!” Battle Beyond the Stars.
What do I win?
Battlefield: Earth.
I’m one of seven people who actually paid to watch it.
Battlefield: Earth
I paid to not have to watch it! 
Stargate - Uh, gee - we found a magic arch that magically transports you to another planet with magic Egyptian dudes on it. What the hell were they smoking when they thought that one up?
I rented the video. Does that count? Of course, I only wanted to see if it was really as bad as everybody said it was. It was.
I tend to be much more forgiving of mediocre or poor special effects than most Dopers, probably because I grew up in the pre-*Star Wars * era when special effects just weren’t nearly as good as they are today. So the special effects didn’t bother me nearly as much as seems to bother most of the folks around here.
But the script? The script was Ed Woods dumb. It is genuinely disturbing that so much money could have been spent by so-called professionals to film a script as shoddy as that. Somebody should have reined in Travolta’s ego. Films like this are the Hollywood equivalent of vanity publishing.
The sets were OK? The ship looked like the inside of an air duct, and the integrated display screens were obvious CRT monitors!
::sigh:: At least they didn’t use the “generic rock planet” set as often as DS9 did.
What about Sliders? A group of mismatched people warping to bizarre parallell universes I can handle, but that the Sliding device (gate, portal, whatever) was built by the fat kid from Stand by Me? For his science project? And that singer they had with them, wasnt he… The crying man? or something? With Gimli as their voice of reason? Sheesh… I only watched it for a really cute chick they had along too, whose name escapes me right now… Anyone remember?
Sure, but you don’t know its true horror until you see it on a twenty foot screen in a mostly empty room with three of the other seven people that got suckered into paying $10 to see it. In our defense, *Gladiator *was sold out though.
Apparently, this thread is made up of youngsters far to young to remember Logan’s Run. (The movie, I mean. The book wasn’t too bad.)
By the seven green moons of Gongle!
Jenny Agutter nekkid. So it can’t be that bad!
This show had a lot of potential. And then they hired Kari Wuhrer. To make things worse, John Rhys-Davies left. Then they hired the star’s brother. A man who couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag with no bottom.
And then it started to suck.
I believe Sabrina Lloyd is the cute girl you are thinking of. She went on to the ill-fated Sports Night.
Was anybody else pissed off by the number of episodes on the original Star Trek where the crew found some planet which for some silly reason (or maybe no silly reason) was based on some period in human history. You know, even if a book of Chicago prohibition-era mobsters did get transported to another planet, I find it doubtful the inhabitants of that planet would feel compelled to rearrange their society so as to conform to what was said in that book, and how would they read the book anyway?
Of course, if we open up the thread to include science ficiton novels, then Anne McCaffery’s Freedom’s Landing needs to be mentioned.
Dracula 3000 (2004) - It’s Dracula… in space!
Starring…
Beverly Hills 90210’s Casper van Dien as a starship pilot and great great great great grandson of Van Helsing.
Baywatch’s Erika Eleniak as a former erotobot turned undercover robocop
Rapper Coolio as a crewman named 187 who’s perpetually high on space weed.
It took itself seriously.
Sabrina Lloyd? She’ll be in a new show on CBS next year called Numbers. And she’s still extremely cute.
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I like that movie!
I meant, *besides * those parts, er, uh, scenes.
Feh, the TV series made the movie look like a David Lean epic.