Science Fiction TV Numbers 25 – 21
Marching down the list, we get a few good ones here…
Number 25: Max Headroom | |
 | GorT watched this whole series and enjoyed it as a young lad – geeky science fiction, quirky humor (I was a young lad) and Amanda Pays wasn’t hard to watch in the show (GorT just learned that she is married to Corbin Bernsen since 1988 – an oddity in the Hollywood acting circles). Yes, it quickly deteriorated but heck, it was a good shot with a different kind of idea. Definitely worthy of being on the list, and possibly as high as it is. |
Number 24: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
 | Building off of the success from the Terminator films, this TV series was launched. It messes with the whole timeline and event stream and tries to mitigate that by ignoring the third movie. It also has Summer Glau from Firefly/Serenity as a terminator sent back by John Connor to save Sarah. I never watched it but some people seem to enjoy it. |
Number 23: Torchwood | |
 | GorT never. got into Doctor Who (and is edging towards it with pressure from co-workers) and maybe I’ll give this Doctor Who spin-off a try (don’t think so? Try anagramming the title.) Captain Jack Harkness is a time traveller from the 51st century that comes to Cardiff, Wales, where an alien encounter investigatory agency is located. |
Number 22: Farscape | |
 | Another solid franchise in the SciFi genre that GorT hasn’t watched. It grew a decent fanbase behind it and it’s quirky approach. Odd characters, including a number of Jim Hensons company’s creations were featured and sometimes killed off even though they were major characters. |
Number 21: Quantum Leap | |
 | A freakin’ classic. Mrs. GorT is a HUGE fan and GorT really enjoyed the show as well. Starring Scott Bakula, this show followed a scientist thrown into a weird time-travel/body-possession series of events and his efforts to return back to his own time and place. Assisting him was Dean Stockwell (or rather his projection) and a tenuous connection to the computer “Ziggy”. While the show focused on the events in the specific time period for the episode limiting the science part of the fiction, it still was an awesome show. |
GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.