I think you'd have to give this to Star Wars. I don't think Trek ships (other than perhaps the Defiant) would be very stable with the propulsion pods way the heck off of the center of gravity.
I'm a Trek person myself, come to that later in life. The original series was sometimes hokey but didn't take itself too seriously. Next Gen was pretty well rounded. Voyager suffered somewhat from new particle shows (it's all because of the tachyons, you know). On the other hand, Empire Strikes Back was the first movie I saw in theaters, at about age 5. Apparently, I flipped out when Yoda came on. My dad tried to reassure me that the puppeteer was the same person as Miss Piggy, but it didn't take.
Oddly enough, as I write this, I realize that I liked the shows and movies made with models much better than the ones made with CGI.
The "Propulsion units" (Nacelles) don't create forward propulsion in a "rocket motor" sense, they create a field around the ship to create a hyperspace condition and open a stable wormhole for travel. The Impulse (Ion) Drive is firmly placed at the rear of the saucer section. (Did I just say that like it was real?)
If you want to talk about airframe stressing the placement of propulsion units, then anything Garry Anderson produced would top the list.
Hehehe... you want to start some discussion-- go over to YORF and bring up the subject of "hottest sci-fi babes"... LOL
That one will go on for WEEKS....
Besides, we ALL know that THE hottest sci-fi babes were on "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"... And the hottest of them all was Princess Ardala... she had the nicest set of "horns" at the ball... LOL
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I didn't think Ardala was all that. At least they used Stargates for travel to other parts of space.
But Firefly was way better than either of those. Realistically plausible and futuristic and sci-fi ish all wrapped up with witty Whedon-ish humor.
I am blue collar I guess, but I like Star Trek for it's writing and ideals. I like Star Wars for the pure sci-fi fantasy storys. And I know where capital letters belong :wink:
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Firefly was one of those things that came along at the wrong time on the wrong network. It, and Farscape, was something I never watched until Netflix. Same thing for Lost. I just started season 5 in Lost. Want Weird? watch Lost.
Firefly was realistically plausible, no doubt about that. The area of space was much smaller and so exotic drives never were needed, but there was an implied near relativistic speed possible. Wish there was more.
Farscape was "ok" until they got to Earth. That whole Australia being the center of the universe and "IASA-NASA" was just so odd that it always had me trying to figure out if there was something more to it than just being a result of where it was produced. It didn't "Feel" Right. BSG was filmed in Canada, and you can tell that Caprica City was Vancouver, especially after I visited Vancouver, but it didn't matter, because it just worked, I guess. The Alley scenes were the A' Ha moment for me. Even Stargate filmed there, but they did a pretty good job of making it "feel" like the grittier parts of Colorado springs... Yes, there are some crappy areas in COS.
Stargate Univers was getting interesting, then poof. Gone. The Elevator Music Scene was particularly funny. I think the directors couldn't handle the multiple paradox situations that they kept getting into...
As for Trek, TOS (I'll admit, I prefer the remastered CGI) was the best, I liked Enterprise and only needed another season to grow it's legs, TNG was so-so, but Voyager and DS9 I couldn't care for. I do watch and eagerly anticipate New Voyages episodes, especially since my son is part of that project now. The reboot had great effects, and a nice modernization of TOS, but blowing up Vulcan and basically tossing out all the Canon to do it was the wrong thing to do, and Cumberbatch as a new Kahn, even though doing a good job playing a villain, cannot replace Montalbán who sadly died the same year. If you've read any of the Greg Cox Eugenics wars books, then Cumberbatch doesn't fit the role. (Those books are a great read, BTW).
Nobody has mentioned Babylon 5. I have never watched B5. Planning to someday, when it pops up on netflix.
Star wars? Yeah if there was ever a time a remake was worth doing, episodes 1-3 could stand to be re-told properly, without all the 'shroom hallucination induced storytelling.
Space 1999 has not been mentioned here, Space 2099 is coming...